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Iunnrais wrote:

Crossfire wrote:

rmr1923 wrote: i need to get her a little more proficient at the range before i sign her up for a class.

A wise man does not try to teach his own wife how to shoot.

You are in the Houston area? You need to call up CompVest. She is one of the best pistol instructors ANYWHERE, just happens to also be a lady, is a champion IDPA shooter, charges a whole lot less than her time is worth, AND is in your area. What could possibly be better than that????

Sounds like sage advice to me. I married a Colorado gal myself and she was always rather gun-shy. It's only since our oldest joined her school's JROTC rifle team that she has eased up on her views. Enough so that she hasn't been giving me the old answer of no guns in the house.

I went out to a range in Ft. Worth with a buddy and went through a bunch of ammo with his collection back before Thanksgiving which reminded me of how much I enjoyed shooting (grew up in NW Texas out in the country so it was ingrained from early on). I may have to take you up on the advice as well :)

It'd be nice to have the wife be a little better informed esp. from someone besides myself and my daughter.

i think what eased my wife's concerns was that the way i educated her about how handguns function sort of took the "mystique" of firearms out of the equation. some people are under the impression that if a gun is loaded (or heck, even unloaded) it can and will fire at any time, regardless of whether you have your finger on the trigger. she doesn't have a CHL but she now keeps a loaded Beretta PX4 Storm Subcompact in the center console of her car at all times - with the safety on and inside a leather IWB holster so the trigger isn't exposed. i'm trying to convince her that she needs to keep the safety off but leave the gun uncocked, because that gun will fire double-action (very heavy double-action trigger pull) on the first round without having to fully cock it. i guess she just feels more comfortable with the safety on, but i've asked her at least a couple times, if you're sitting at a red light and some guy comes up and is banging on the window trying to car jack you, are you going to remember to turn the safety off? i need to get her out to the range to shoot it some more, maybe she just wants to get more comfortable with it first, in fact i might insist that she NOT keep it in the car until she's comfortable enough to keep the safety off. the last thing i want to happen is her to have to draw it on an attacker, start pulling the trigger and nothing happens, then the attacker takes it and uses it on her instead.

74novaman wrote: Honestly, it may take her being in a situation where she wishes she had one. Wish that wasn't the case, but sometimes nothing else will do.

sad to say but sometimes this really is the case. we had an ordeal about a year ago where this guy was stalking my wife, even tried to kick down the front door one day when she was home from work and i wasn't there. every time we walked outside of the house (to walk to the car, check the mail, take the dogs out, go for a walk, etc) she was paranoid that this lunatic would be there. the cops eventually caught up to him and he's in prison now for various other crimes, but ever since that happened she's actually insisted that i get my CHL and is considering getting one herself. at first she was VERY uncomfortable around guns, i got her out at her parents' house (in the country) to do some target shooting just to get her comfortable with how a gun functions and how to properly use it. i even broke it down and showed her the different components and described in detail how a gun works. i guess she didn't really understand them very much and just assumed that they could fire at any time like a bomb waiting to go off. it wasn't until after i educated her on how they work, and stressed to her that they're nothing more than a tool, that she became more comfortable around them. she still insisted that i get her a gun with an external safety, so she keeps a Beretta PX4 Storm 9mm subcompact in her center console. she's planning on getting her CHL but isn't quite ready yet. i need to get her a little more proficient at the range before i sign her up for a class.