Ruger LCP .380 with laser sight.

[Adam Helmer]

popplecop & Jack,

I agree with what you both said. At the gunshop, they had two, new, LCPs without the laser for $300 while the laser sight model was $425. I lobbied for the LCP without the laser, but the student was gung ho for the laser and bought it.

On the range, the student lingered while attempting to shoot at the target because he became too interested in the red dot on the target and how it bobbed about during the long trigger pull. A small defensive handgun should be a point and shot proposition in gravest extreme at close range rather than trying to hold the red dot still. At the next range session, I will coach him to shoot through the wobble. By that I mean, when the red dot is on the target-shoot.

Adam

[Rapier]

My son decided to buy his wife a laser sighted defense gun for the house. Son is gone alot. He started complaining to me about the Walther he bought so I went looking for him or her a better gun. Frankly what I found was a wide variety of POS and I looked from FL to OK. All of those itty-bitty laser wonders are miserable. It looks good, sounds good and works real bad. They put the sights on guns with 12 pound triggers and no way to fix the trigger system.

You would be way better off having a standard sighted gun with a decent trigger in the dark, than than those little DAO laser guns.

Now, due to years of experiance, I am not the norm, but I can hit a can top at 10 yards with my Kel-Tec, in the day light, and have no doubt a person can be trained up to shoot that little 380 well, night or day. Compared to the Hungarian 9x18 (aluminum frame) I have carried before, the Kel-Tec is a pussy cat to shoot.

Plus one for standard sights on a little belly gun.
Ed