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Editor\u2019s Note: <\/strong>The following is a syndicated article by author Ed Combs that first appeared in USCCA\u2019s Concealed Carry Magazine Volume 13, Issue 6, August\/September 2016 under the title, \u201cLet’s Get Small: The Case for the Pocket Pistol.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently got into the \u201csmall gun\/no gun\u201d conversation with\nan individual who was serious when he said that pocket guns have no place in\nhis defensive battery. They\u2019re harder to shoot, have a lower capacity and why\nspend almost as much on a small<\/em> gun when you can save a little longer\nand buy another big<\/em> gun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The punch line for me was that, earlier in the conversation,\nwhen I\u2019d asked if he was carrying, he said no. He had to go somewhere later\nthat didn\u2019t allow guns and reholstering with his IWB was a bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I\u2019m certain you can imagine, I had to swallow what I\nreally wanted to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D<\/strong>ig It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Guns are tools, much like many others. For those who don\u2019t\nimmediately get the connection between the two items pictured here, consider\nthis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implausible as it might be, imagine yourself in a\ncircumstance under which you have to dig a hole. Like, immediately. If you\ndon\u2019t at least start digging a hole right now, there will be dire consequences,\nup to and including death or worse. What would you prefer to use to accomplish\nthat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, ideally, you\u2019d use a bucket excavator, but almost no\none has one of those just hanging around. Real-world ideally, you\u2019d prefer to\nuse a shovel; you know, spade blade with a place to put your foot for extra\npunch, 48-inch handle for leverage, nice big scoop for nice big scooping\naction, the works. But those are usually inconvenient to just toss in your\nvehicle unless you\u2019re either very committed or regularly use one in the course\nof your day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you rather start digging that life-saving hole with\nthis folding shovel \u2014 which, if you ask anyone who\u2019s used one, is no great\nshakes when compared to the aforementioned spade or even a fixed-handle folding\nshovel \u00ad\u2014 or with your hands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When everything\u2019s bad enough, a shovel\u2019s a shovel\u2019s a shovel,\nand shovel beats hand like rock beats scissors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a strong proponent of pocket pistols, because they lead\nto a higher number of responsibly armed Americans actually having a gun on\ntheir person during deadly force incidents. Are they the perfect self-defense\ntool from a projection of force standpoint? No. The rifle is still Queen of\nBattle, bested only by her old man Artillery, who is King. But just as a\nshovel\u2019s a shovel\u2019s a shovel when you need to dig a hole, a gun\u2019s a gun\u2019s a gun\nwhen a predator is closing in on you and it\u2019s time to start shooting or start\npunching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Small Problem <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is not to say that there aren\u2019t any challenges\npresented by single-stack micros. For the average concealed carrier, the\nbiggest issue with shooting a micro pistol is that the shooter is probably\naccustomed to a two-handed grip. Now, there\u2019s nothing wrong with using a\ntwo-handed grip on a tiny pistol; that\u2019s exactly how I employ them. However,\nserious safety issues can arise if you\u2019re not careful, especially if you have\ngorilla mitts like I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When holding a small pistol in the modern two-handed grip,\nthe same off-hand thumb that normally extends onto the non-dominant side of the\nframe suddenly sneaks dangerously close to the muzzle. I\u2019ve accidentally done\nthis myself; say what you will about the .380 ACP as a defensive cartridge, but\nit\u2019s certainly a solid training aid when a 90-grain jacketed hollow-point whips\npast your thumb close enough to leave you with what some of the old-timers call\na \u201ccoal miner\u2019s tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution for this issue is, like the solution for all\nother issues in firearms handling, training. In order to employ a two-handed\ngrip on a tiny handgun, we have to go back in history a little bit and\nre-examine a style that has fallen out of fashion since the auto-loader swept\nthe revolver out of the law enforcement duty market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When taking up the tiny gun in question, grip it in your\ndexterous hand as you would grip any sidearm. When placing your support hand,\nthough, you\u2019ll need to train so as to reliably curl your thumb and fingers down\nand around your shooting hand enough to keep all of your moving parts away from\nthe muzzle. (This was one of the common law enforcement grips back in the\nrevolver days.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I understand that some of you are scoffing as you read this,\nbut stop and think for a moment about how many times you\u2019ve acquired a firing\ngrip on your full-size gun; now picture yourself grabbing a micro pistol during\nan immediate life-or-death struggle. If you\u2019ve trained properly, you\u2019ll be\nincapable of doing it wrong, which might mean extending your off-thumb up onto\nthat slide and removing the tip of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, were you actually facing said deadly threat, the tip of\nyour off-thumb might not be all that important and its absence might even make\nfor an interesting conversation piece over the following years. Even better,\nthough, would be to train consistently with how to handle a micro pistol. If\nyou do, your hand will immediately recognize it as such and keep all of the\nlittle piggies where they belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other and essentially important option is to train\nshooting your micro pistol one-handed. Not only is it a good idea to train\nshooting one-handed with any sidearm you own, but strictly defensive firearms\nare far more likely to be fired one-handed than the competition 1911 you had\nbuilt for your husband last Christmas. With pocket guns, the chances of being\nforced to shoot before you\u2019ve achieved a \u201cproper\u201d grip are very high, as your\nother hand might be occupied fending off an attack that is already underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ladies’ Choice <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another unpleasant reality a lot of micro-pistol shooters\nface is the fact that helpful souls often think, \u201cWell, since she\u2019s a woman,\nshe should carry a little tiny gun.\u201d I don\u2019t know how many times I\u2019ve heard\nsomeone recommend a sidearm to a lady based on size alone. I\u2019m not talking\nabout the size of the woman, let alone her level of hand strength, age,\ntraining capabilities or anything else. I\u2019m talking about the size of the gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the kind of man who, when told that a woman is looking for a defensive sidearm, immediately hands her a snub-nosed revolver or a tiny auto. In his mind, a gun is a gun is a gun: He\u2019ll look at the size of the hand it\u2019ll go in and then select a gun that would look proportional in that hand to his own gun in his own hand. Though such a man is not always incorrect with regard to a Smith & Wesson Model 36 (and is often actually right on the money), there\u2019s a reason I call tiny polymer .380s \u201cborderline experts\u2019 guns.\u201d For starters, the combination of a very small grip and extremely short sight radius makes for a difficult shot. Moreover, many of the newer micros hardly have any sights at all, so atop battling the diminutive stature of the gun itself, now this new shooter is being asked to shoot basically instinctively, be it with the Applegate Method<\/a>, the C.A.R. system<\/a> or some other permutation of unsighted fire that almost certainly wasn\u2019t covered in her permit class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of that said, anyone could train to use any sidearm. I hate to bring her up, as she was a scumbag and a murderer, but never forget that Bonnie Parker<\/a> could gunfight because she trained. She was barely 5 feet tall and never once in her life weighed more than 100 pounds, but she could hip-fire a chopped M1918 BAR while moving and taking the fight to her opponents. That\u2019s an 18-pound fully automatic rifle chambered in .30-06 that her boyfriend, notorious cop murderer and generally trashy specimen Clyde Barrow<\/a>, cut down to about the size of a modern home defense shotgun. It\u2019s a weapons system that would tire out most rookie cops in one or two magazines, but she was adept in its use because she trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built for Speed, Not Comfort <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve met very few women who out-and-out prefer a Ruger LCP,<\/a> Kel-Tec P3AT<\/a> or Taurus TCP<\/a>. Like men, women generally prefer guns that are easy to shoot: Glock 19<\/a>s, CZ 75<\/a>s, Walther PPQ<\/a>s and Smith & Wesson M&P<\/a>s. With extremely rare exceptions, we own and train with tiny guns because we have to \u2026 not because we like to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

True though that might be, we carry tiny guns specifically\nbecause they\u2019re not<\/em> Glock 19s, CZ 75s, Walther PPQs or Smith &\nWesson M&Ps. We carry them because we can drop them into a pocket rather\nthan rig them into a pair of pants. We carry them because they\u2019re small enough\nto sneak into a wardrobe that might not include a sweater, suit coat, fleece\npullover or jacket. We carry them even though it can be painful to discharge\nthem, and we understand that micro pistols and snub-nosed revolvers are a lot\nlike punching an attacker in the nose as hard as you can: You\u2019re not doing it\nbecause it\u2019s fun; you\u2019re doing it because if you don\u2019t, you will likely die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So take it easy on tiny guns. You don\u2019t have to love shooting them, and you don\u2019t have to love training with them. You don\u2019t even have to own one, but I would ask that you understand why some do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover how you can join nearly 300,000 responsibly armed Americans who already rely on the USCCA to protect their families, futures and freedoms: USCCA.com\/gunsamerica<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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