re: Best pistol for home protection?

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To the OP, just go get a good full sized 9mm pistol. Any of the usual name brands will do. Get whatever fits your hand best. The best thing you can do is go to a intro pistol class. Learn how to shoot, reload, and clear malfunctions. Even the best gun in the hands of the untrained is useless.

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I wouldn't get into a AR platform just yet. An all steel DA/SA wouldn't be a bad first gun. Sig P226 or Beretta 92 are both easy to shoot and great bedside guns. The plastic guns may have a little too much recoil for the little lady.

The CCP is a good little gun but it's in a different size category. The PPQ is a mid sized double stack and the CCP is a sub compact single stack.

Point being, if they can handle the CCP, shooting the PPQ will be like going from Ford Fiesta to Cadillac Escalade.

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Handgun stopping power is simply a myth

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Well, it is and is isn't. A single hit with a .17 rimfire is superior to any number of misses with .45 ACP for example. And Hollywood's notion of large caliber handguns "knocking people back/off their feet" is clearly not based on reality.

But, kinetic energy isn't a myth. Wound channel and sensory overload isn't a myth. Overcoming intermediate obstacles on the way to the target isn't a myth.

Now, using a cartridge of modern design is there a hell of a lot of difference between a 9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, or .357 Mag striking the same target at the same angle from the same distance? Not really. (The old Federal 357B once boasted a 95 or 96 percent chance to stop a gunfight with 1 hit - this was largely based on state trooper involved shootings using full-size 4- and 6-inch barrel revolvers.)

But are those choices going to give you a better chance of winning the gunfight than a pistol chambered in .22 LR, .32, .380? Absolutely.

My wife has a S&W M&P Shield 9mm that she carries, but if you ask her which pistol she prefers to shoot, she'll tell you it's my 1911 .45ACP

Yes!

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Smith and Wesson makes them and you pay for them. Taurus makes a comparable revolver for about 40% the price.

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Ruger FTMFW. (Smith still has those Clinton-era locks. Pussies.)

I wish they'd do away with those gay arse locks.

100 years ago people were posting the same thing about those same guns....

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Do they make a little semi-auto .410 like that?

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Don't think Mossberg does. As rough as their pump is, I wouldn't trust an auto to be reliable.
Got this for my son when he was 7, then an Escort 20 auto.