My wife had some surgery, and for a while couldn’t manipulate the slide on her Glock 42, so she carried my J-Frame and I pocket carried her G42.
She has now taken it back and I MISS IT! It was so much easier to pocket carry than the J-Frame. My normal carry is a Glock 26 inside the waistband, but the G42 in a DeSantis pocket holster was so much easier to grab and go.
When the wife isn’t looking, I’m going to snag one of those $200 Ruger LCPs. Since the LCP2 has come out, prices on the LCP have really come down. And the LCP is even smaller than the G42.
I bought my daughter a LCR as her first gun, I did a lot of research and settled on the .22WMR over the .380 for her.
After seeing the difference between the hollow-points of each in ballistics gel I was actually very surprised at the outcome. She has small hands and a small wrist, so I wanted something she wasn’t going to be intimidated with when I took her out to shoot as well.
Only issue I had with the gun was the clearance was so close from the cylinder to the frame after shooting the cylinder didn’t want to open at all because of the deformation marks the hammer made on the back of the casings. It even made shooting the last couple of rounds harder to squeeze off to get the cylinder to rotate.