When my wife was shopping for a pistol she wanted something that she could learn to operate with proficiency. She has plenty of experience at pulling the trigger on my 1911 45's at targets on a pistol range, but for protection there are too many things to go wrong with a single action pistol such as the 1911 in inexperienced hands.

Any maker can fit the bill but what she decided on was a Sig Sauer P-239 in .40 caliber because:
1. It is Double Action / Single Action
2. It has a manual safety
3. It has a decocker to make the pistol safe without the fear of an AD.
4. It fits her hand like a glove and she can easily shoot it with one hand or two
5. It has Trijicon Night Sights
6. It is bad-ass for a chick pistol