Hello and welcome. There are worse places to lurk. If you look at the Equipment Exchange (you'll have to message a moderator and ask to be included in the group that uses it if you want to buy or trade) you can at times find cheap pistols there. Also, Marstar sells Norinco pistols, which are pretty cheap. I'm old enough that I'm pretty far past the time when I looked for cheap pistols. You'll get there too. Hardly anyone stays at the one-pistol level. On the exchange, or at one of the dealers (look at the banners at the top of the page), you might find something appealing that's pre-owned and relatively inexpensive, and of high quality. Enjoy the site.