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I strongly agree about small-frame .38 revolvers for self-defense unless one is EXTREMELY well versed in a specific semi-auto, that is, have shot many hundreds of rounds from the specific weapon.

Personally, I like the small-frame spurless, but-still-thumb-cockable revolvers for shooting single-action. Single action is more accurate for the average person, especially those with small and/or less-than-strong hands. These small guns are also easily, comfortably, and safely concealable.

Here’s some good choices:

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_841084_-1_757767_757751_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_764944_-1_757767_757751_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_764945_-1_757767_757751_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_766351_-1_757767_757751_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

At any rate, best bet for your wife is to get a Colorado driver’s license. There’s no residency waiting period AND it can help her establish residency if she desires, so as to obtain instate tuition. I think she could also just get a Colorado ID card from the Colorado DMV if she’d rather do that than the driver’s license, and that would serve as proof of Colorado residency as well.

By getting a Colorado Driver’s license/ID, she’s not limited to whatever she can buy in Kali and doesn’t have to go back to Kali to get it. She can buy pretty much any legal handgun from any dealer in Colorado. She (or you) can also purchase from gunbroker.com or the like and have it shipped to her FFL of choice in Colorado.

If she’s going to school in or near Boulder County, I could conveniently handle any out-of-state purchase for her, since I’m a Colorado FFL.

BTW, while she’s at it, she could also get her Colorado CCW.