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Wife has a LARGE family who are all either ambivalent to guns or anti gun. Her Dad had asked about one a few times years ago but his Wife was dead set against having one. Now that she is gone he asked again and even started looking on his own. Told Wife he was looking at one of the sub compact Glocks. She told him wait till you can try at least so we took him out today. He is well past 90 and I had doubts about the sub compacts. First let him shoot a SR .22. For someone who had not handled a gun since his days in the Military in the 50's it was impressive. Without his glasses he was keeping it on paper. Handed him one of our LCPII's in .22, he kept that on paper. So handed him a full size 9, Ruger American, holds 18 so it is heavy. Same thing, no problem staying on paper but recoil was too much for his wrists. After only a handful of rounds he stopped. At this point I showed him a sub compact 9 I had with me but warned him it was VERY much harder on recoil so he elected to not even try. So let him try a KT .32. That he went through a mag on but even that was hurting his wrists. So back to the SR and the LCPII .22's and he was getting better with each mag. Scoring center ring hits. Wife handed him her old MKII 22/45 BB 5inch. That he was making center ring hits with, iron sights and no glasses on. So he settled on the SR.22 compact. Is going with Wife to a shop next week to pick out one he had looked at. I am sure that if it gets out to some of Wife's siblings they are going to be over the top angry at us but they can pound sand as far as I care. Guy is still living on his own and I will feel a lot better knowing he is armed now and the damn guy can still shoot after all those decades of not even picking up a gun. Tried to loan him one of our LCPII's to keep for now as that was why I bought it originally. He said he would wait till he got his own. As we were driving home through the poor part of Tacoma he was joking he could probably just buy a gun down here and no wait.