Women are winning, at least when it comes to handguns. We get more proof of this each time a new model that contains features women appreciate is introduced, whether it’s a slide that’s easy to manipulate, has manageable recoil, a great trigger, or a combination of all of those and more. Another way we know it is when a gun designed and built for women becomes the subject of the cover story for
NRA’s flagship publication, American Rifleman.
It hasn’t been an easy road, and it’s taken some time to arrive at the realization that many of today’s handguns are considered "good guns for women." After all, men have been pondering the “what to women want?” enigma since the beginning of time. (Why didn’t they just ask us?) And let’s face it, most handguns have been designed and built by men, for men—and their man-sized hands. Our mantra at NRA Women has and always will be what is "right for you" is a good gun. But it's encouraging that gun makers are now thinking, and acting, on those thoughts.
So how does a gun manufacturer show it cares—no, I mean really cares—about what women shoot? No more “shrink it and pink it”; that’s so 2000’s. Small and lightweight with punishing recoil? No thanks. How about a double-action revolver with a trigger pull so heavy that most women in our Ladies Pistol Project 1 couldn’t even work it? No sir, no, thank you.
How a gun maker really shows its sincerity in advancing the women’s gun market is to actually just figure it out, starting with the physiology of an average woman’s hands, and building a gun around the hand, not the other way around. And that’s exactly what Walther did when it designed its first gun specifically for women, the PDP F-Series.......
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