My daughter got a CPL so I had a 9mm cerakoted for her.
She's shot all of my handguns and liked this little 9 and I've shot it enough to know its dependable so figured it would make a good ccw choice for her.

Bullshit you set that up for yourself!

I wonder what the cost would be to do my wife's glock19 like that? Looks good!

Well Jamie, you've made it so if she ever has to pull it, she'll have to shoot it. A gang-banger or car-jacker will see it and just know she doesn't have a real gun and that will be that. Sometimes they run when they know the other person is armed. Now, they'll just laugh at her and advance. She'll have to kill or be killed. Personally, let her use it at the range, but for serious work, carry a damned serious friggin gun.

Dan, now that's a opinion I never considered.

Ha ha. You going to make it to this weeks shoot?

On the other hand, everyone knows you can't shoot a person holding a pink gun.

Now that Dan has me second guessing my decision to have the gun done in girly pink colors. I hope a few others will comment on this thread.

I think the gun is cool (for a girl) If she ever has to pull it, she should be about 99% ready to shoot, anyways! If they advance, their bad plan, now fatal.

Lots of pink and purple and other brightly colored guns out there nowadays. If they don't know enough about guns to respect the hole in the middle of all that pink, well.... teach her to make 'em advance through a wall of bullets!

Self defense is, IMO, 99% willingness to shoot and mind set/awareness. The bad guys should be (and probably will be) looking at here EYES and body language, and listening to her voice for the real clues and signs about the severity of the situation.

If your daughter is of the right mindset, has a good PRE decided action plan encased into her phsyche, they will either know and respect that, or die learning about it.

Train her brain as well as her hands and she will be just fine.

My daughter prefers brighter colors...

A real gun has an intrinsic and visable fear factor built into it - which may thwart an evildoers' intentions.
A pink gun loses some of that deterrent.

You should'a silver plated it.

Hope so working tens again.

Opinions vary. My oldest Grand daughter was about nine when her Dad took her down to purchase her first rifle. It was one of those break action jobs (I've never seen it) with barrels in 22LR, 243, and 410. She flat told him guns are not supposed to be pink. She took one home with a black tupperware handle.

Seems her PaPa instilled in her that guns are for serious business.

Color doesn't matter just as long as it works.

But now, of coarse, every spare mag she buys you have to get the grip extension coated pink.

Keep in mind, "training" guns or often colored and identified as "inert" and safe. I just don't see a defensive weapon colored in a manner that would suggest some ambiguity.

If something bad happens it'll be because a bad guy made a decision to do something bad. Not because of you, your daughter or the color of her gun.

Let her enjoy her pink gun.

Some police departments have orange shotguns for bean bag rounds and yellow tazers. I'd never recommend a cop carry a real yellow gun or load buckshot into an orange shotgun because of the possible deadly confusion that could follow.

But unless Jamie's daughter also has a pink training gun in her house I don't see the pinkness as an issue.

Well said, and spot on.

Exactly.

Besides, the vast majority of the time when somebody draws their gun, they are drawing it because they are planning to shoot it the moment they can get it into action. The color matters not in such cases.

The rest of the time, if a woman draws a pink gun and points it at a guy and in a shaky voice says, "Don't come any closer. I'll shoot," how many people are going to test whether her gun is real by going at her?

I also would venture a guess that most people know that guns come in a variety of colors these days. You can get pink or purple guns from the factory if that's what you want. Color isn't at all likely to impact whether a bad decides to go at her after seeing she has a gun in hand.

Hope she loves shooting it!

Sorry about my cute comment earlier. Here is the answer:



There is a potential deterrent effect to having bad guys recognizing something as a firearm, but the main point is to have one in the first place. There is no assurance in any particular situation that your daughter�s gun will have a lesser deterrent effect than if it had not been cerakoted pink. So, as long as she knows how to use it, she should carry it in good health with the comfort and safety it provides.

Seems her eyes don't so much.

I think the idea of using a firearm as a visual deterrent is about as ridiculous as telling people that if a bad guy hears the cycling of a shotgun, the bad guy will pee-pee in his pants and run away.



Travis

Well, the color will make it easier for her to find in her purse.

She can reduce the "cute gun" effect of the pink pistol by having a skull and cross bones tattooed on her trigger finger.

I think it's great. If she's excited about it, then she may want to actually shoot it and carry it; and that's what you want!

I've been eyeballing one of those Ruger LC9's with the purple frame for my daughter. She's several years away from CCW, but I may have to pick one up when the opportunity presents.

It's funny, my daughter LOVES colored pistols, but my wife only likes auto-pistols, and only if they're black.

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The whole idea in letting her pick out the colors and patern was to give the pistol a kind of
Personalized touch and make it "her's"

And you did that part quite well, dad!

Daughter

Daughter with firearm

Daughter with fire arm that she chose and can shoot well

Daughter with a firearm she looks good with and will carry everywhere

One good and successful daddy...

(I have a S&W 3913 Lady Smith waiting for my daughter if she decides that it fits her wardrobe...)

Jamie

Anyone dumb enough to stand there long enough to be shot let alone advance on a pissed off woman with a gun regardless of color and is afraid for her life is an idiot and deserves to be shot.

As said above I'm sure bad guys have learned guns aren't necessarily just black or silver anymore.


I concur with KG and most of the posters that you did well. Letting her pick her handgun then personalizing it for her gives her pride and she will most likely take ownership of it and learn to use it well.

For the fist time ever,this morning my daughter asked me if I wanted to go shooting. I've always had to invite her.
25' about half with the sites and half with a laser.

Nice!!

That's great!

I see that you still draw a face on your targets, along with adding a heart to the torso! You're so silly!

Lot of truth here. I prefer to look at a gun with the idea that the bad guy is intimidated and leaves and you don't have to shoot him. This one......maybe not so much.