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TheBrit:

Amusing replies, sir.

Well hey if you can get your bride to carry the .357 revolver,
or the Taurus Public Defender, by all means do it.

Rule #1 for a gunfight - bring a gun!

Anything she WILL carry is better than something you THINK
she should carry.

Stay calm. Carry on. (Instructions from a WWII British poster).

SIA

TheBrit:

You don't state what size her XD9 is, but I'm surprised
that you would consider a Taurus Judge a more suitable carry gun.

IMHO, if her carry piece choice is the XD9 or the Judge, I'd go with the
XD for the increased number of rounds, as well as a somewhat
smaller profile.

By the way, if you want to thin the herd (sell some of those pistolas
she's not using), post them here on the board for your forum friends
to buy.

SIA

karder:

It's a good plan of action you are taking with your bride.
Having a specific gun (her LCR) for her will make her more confident with it.

I read in the news that your city (El Paso) doesn't have the Mexican crime on
the other side of the border, but my gut feeling is that an El Paso resident
would be much more likely to need their gun than Texans further from Mexico.

SIA

CompVest:

Well, I confess that I was not appropriately gender neutral in my OP
about WIVES.

It's great that you know some well-armed women who need to take their
men to the range.

I will now flail myself with thorns for being unfair in my thread title. :-)

SIA

Recently I read an article in one of the latest gun magazines
(the paper kind, not the metal kind) that LEO's have had potentially
fatal problems when they need to arm themselves with the weapons
of another LEO during incidents.

Some safeties are different in their operation. Glocks have no manual safeties.
Some departments carry "safety on" while others carry "safety off."
Some departments carry with one in the pipe, others may not.

The manual of arms for any particular weapon is not necessarily known
by the user of the borrowed weapon.

This issue should also be addressed by non-LEO's as well. I have talked to
several men and some women who have guns in the house, but the man is
the only one who has shot them. There's an assumption that if the man is
not home, or disabled, that the wife will be able to defend herself successfully
just because she knows where the gun is.

If you had never driven a stick shift car, would you know how to just because
you have the keys to it? Even people who know how to drive a stick will need
a learning curve on a clutch which is not familar to them.

Another case of an assumption that could have gotten a good guy killed is the
case where an Asian family's market had been the victim of robberies. The adult
son armed his father with .40 handgun. The father was robbed and used the .40
to defend himself successfully (in that the GG dad was not shot), but the scary
part of this story was that he had never shot the pistol until the day he had to
use it against the bad guy. He probably needed some adult diapers after he heard
that puppy roar inside the store's confines.

My point here, especially to the husbands on the forum, is to always take your
wives to the range so that she will know exactly what the weapon sounds like,
its recoil characteristics, how to rack the slide if a semi-auto, where the safety is,
and whether or not it has a magazine safety.

Call me Obvious Man, but I'm just trying to raise the specter of a wife who knows
where the gun is, but can't use it successfully in the case of a home invasion.

Stay alert, armed, and with spare ammo out there.

SIA