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Posted: 9/14/2010 9:05:36 AM EDT
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This post again.  Let's see... First thing would be to take her to the range and let her shoot a few different ones. With women, and most guys, if it doesn't feel good to shoot, they will NOT practice or feel comfortable enough to want to use it in a defense situation.
Revolvers seem the gun of choice for most novice/female shooters. Let's be honest though, most women probably react how you would expect under pressure, so a "complicated" series of events, like flipping off a safety before shooting, might be forgotten in the heat of the moment. My recommendations are as follows: G19 if you're going for a pistol. If she can learn to do a mag change, then really that's the most complicated thing she will have to do in a fight (minus clearing any stoppages, but with a Glock that's almost never an issue). S&W or Taurus revolver in something like .38+P would be easy to handle and immune to stoppages. Those are the only two I would recommend to a novice or "bedstand only" gun user. Hope that helps. This post is crap after the first three sentences. Women are not stupid delicate flowers. If a woman can operate a car then she is smart enough to be able to operate the rather basic controls on a pistol. She may even be able to learn to do a mag change! "Can" and "Will" are two different things. Women can learn to operate a semi-auto. It's not clear to me that most will. For someone with no interest in guns, who won't put time into learning the manual of arms, and probably will never need or want to use it, a .38 Spl K Frame is tough to beat. Face it. We're weird. We actually like guns. Most people don't like guns any more than they like fire extinguishers. We're different. We'll spend time dry-firing, practicing magazine changes, and discussing guns on the internet. That is not most people, not by a mile. A lot of people just want a gun, just in case, and don't intend to think about it ever again unless and until they hear a bump in the night. Any complexity in the use of something they won't think about and won't use except in very unlikely emergencies is a bad idea. |
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Posted: 9/14/2010 9:12:45 AM EDT
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Sig 239.
Hard to beat weapon of choice for women. |
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Posted: 9/14/2010 9:52:41 AM EDT
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Quoted: Most people don't like guns any more than they like fire extinguishers. .... A lot of people just want a gun, just in case, and don't intend to think about it ever again unless and until they hear a bump in the night. Any complexity in the use of something they won't think about and won't use except in very unlikely emergencies is a bad idea. If that's the type of person you or anybody else is dealing with then you probably shouldn't recommend they buy a gun at all. A rabbit's foot will probably do them as much good. |
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