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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veritas" data-source="post: 4276684" data-attributes="member: 55012">Awesome advice here other than a huge percentage of "NRA certified" instructors (really all instructors) know little to nothing and often teach the exact wrong thing. Be very careful who you get instruction from, red flags are "I know what I'm saying because I was a cop" or "my uncle was in the Navy and taught me". Ask where they got their training, who they continue to receive instruction from, what their accuracy standards are (sometimes just what type of target they use in class will tell you this), how they teach certain common manual of arms like reloads and checking to see if the gun is loaded (do they have a method to do it in low to no light?).Resist the urge to buy "little guns" like the Smith air weight. Light small guns equal painful and hard to shoot. I understand her hands are small so a huge grip like a very soft shooting 2011 is out for her as are all double stack Glocks but some guns like the HK VP9 have a lot of grip adjustment down to fairly small.As said though go to the range and see what she not only thinks she likes but see what she shoots well using the same drills on each gun to objectively judge it. People with no training (to include men that have owned guns for 20 years) often go with the "this feels good in my hand" while standing at the gun counter approach and it may not translate into shooting the gun well.Also, how does she manipulate each? Have her run some reloads and malfunction clearance drills, something like the HK P30L has a very light slide to operate for a semi auto. If she can't learn one of several effective techniques to rack a slide as a smaller person with less grip strength than a revolver may be the better option provided she also learns how to run one of those beyond pulling the trigger on an already loaded gun.</blockquote>

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