What a miserable experience. First of all, the gun is too small to shoot even the .22 comfortably. I think a woman who wasn't very comfortable with gun would not like shooting this gun after a while.
Secondly, it jammed and jammed and jammed. I think the problem was the cheap little tinny magazine, I saw how it was misfeeding, and then pinched the top lips of the mag together slightly to change the angle it entered the chamber - then it fed well - until I heard something "pop" inside the gun, and the gun literally fell apart in my hands.
I gathered the pieces together, sent them to Taurus and they fixed the gun, but I just keep the thing in the closet now. I consider it one of my "mistakes".
I was in a gun shop and a guy bought one of those - it was his first gun and he said wanted something for self-defense. The customer looked a little loony, I think maybe the dealer sold him that gun so he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone with it. I sure wouldn't want to have to depend on that gun.
