Pistol for a young lady

Sorry, for self defense. Carry in the car and purse

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for self defense. Carry in the car and purse

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Smith and Wesson Shield. HKVP9 SK is coming out soon as well.

S&W airweight .38 Easy to use. Fairly light. No safety but heavy enough trigger pull. Don't want a young lady to having to be messing with a semi-auto unless she's really used to them.

Ignore the airweight/J-frame revolver recommendations. She'll hate it.

Ignore the .32 recommendation. She'll want to stop the attacker, not make him mad.

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Ignore the .32 recommendation. She'll want to stop the attacker, not make him mad.

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Try reading the reviews first.

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One of the drawbacks inherent to most pocket pistols is the lack of power associated with the platform. The Beretta 3032 Tomcat takes the high road on this and is chambered for the .32 ACP. This round is known to be a bit more powerful and offer slightly more penetration on average than the also-popular .380.

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You mofos are slipping.

The correct response is - We need pics of said young lady before we can answer.

Really, anything in 9mm would be sufficient if she can pull the slide. If not then 38 special.

You should take her to a shop so she can handle several and narrow it down to a few then go to a range that rents those guns and she should get the one she shoots more proficiently.

NVM, thought I was on the OT

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I see plenty of ladies 100lbs soaking wet that shoot g19s.

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Although I'm a Sig guy - few persons would be underserved, in any capacity a pistol may serve, by a Glock 19.

It isn't pretty or glamorous. It's the basic hammer or screwdriver of pistols. It will seem more like a full sized pistol to small framed folks and there's nothing wrong with that. It is "concealable" with proper holster and clothing. Young women have unique challenges in carrying concealed, but they can be overcome.

At the end of the day, you need to start with a single pistol and shoot the daylights out of that. That muscle memory can be translated to other platforms - the closer to that base skill set the better.

If you just don't like Glock for whatever reason, try the M&P or the Sig 320. If you don't like polymer? Try Sig classic pistols (ow, my wallet) or maybe even Beretta ( - different strokes, though).

But, the knee jerk reaction to putting a novice, small, female shooter into a .380 pocket gun or J-frame equivalent revolver is just terrible, terrible advice, generally. Those are specialty weapons for special situations. The .380 is largely obsolete (as are most revolvers for non-hunting purposes) - while obsolete doesn't mean ineffective, it certainly suggests we should go somewhere else. Outside of a rare case like a Walther PPK (which is a heavy, all metal example of the type), the .380s and 5-shot .38 Specials, regardless of alloy/weight, etc. are unpleasant to shoot and difficult to shoot well - a double whammy because relying on the weapon for your defense demands competency with it. No person is going to voluntarily put thousands of rounds through most .380 pocket autos or 5-shot .38s (Again, the Walther PPK and Ruger SP101 might be exceptions, but those are large for type, heavier for type guns from a better, vanished time.)

So what will work? In today's market roughly a Glock 19/Sig P229 (or equivalent) and adjusting from there, based on preferences with ergonomics, fire control system, etc.