You might drop in at your local gun store and ask to see some small pistols in .22LR or 380. That’s what I did now that I am a million years old, and common sense requires me to step down from the 1911.
I’d need a license for those.
Husband browsed the ‘youth’ rifles that someone suggested last night, and saw a Mossberg that he though might be a good ‘beginner’ item for me.
But I’m getting close to a million years old, too :-)