I always recommend buying a gun that you have had a chance to play with, fire, and get a feel for. Never buy a gun sight unseen. There are some great deals out there on used weapons and you can have them shipped from anywhere to a local FFL, but buying a used guy you haven't been able to touch is like buying an old house from a newspaper that you have never been to for a walk through. You have no idea if the appliances are old and worn, if the house is infested with bugs, there is a smell of something dead coming from somewhere, the condition of the carpet, or anything else.
Know what you are getting yourself into. Odds are, everything will be fine, but many gun manufactures do not offer life time warranties that cover every owner of a gun...sometimes it is only the first owner, or a limited time warranty from date of purchase. Guns can be expensive to fix.
The moral of this story... touch it, feel it, and try it out and you are less likely to be disappointed.
