Hearing her two little dogs yapping up a storm late one night my MIL, who lived alone, brandished a tiny potmetal semiautomatic Titan .25acp to scare off an intruder who was attempting to to break in her kitchen door.
I was unaware she owned a firearm at the time, and was kind of bemused that she had bought it at her small Texas town hardware store without requesting any advice from me or other relatives.
Thank goodness though she probably saved herself from great harm or loss of property if she had been unarmed.
Anyway, I persuded her to allow me to buy her something more suitable & reliable than the Titan.
She was familiar with firearms from years before, being taught to shoot handguns & .22 rifles by her father.
So I bought this 1982 production Model 36 for her to keep in her nightstand.
She was well able to handle it after a shooting session at the local landfill.
That is all the “training” she wanted to do, as she really wasn’t a gun aficionado- but did recognize their utility for personal protection.
After she passed away at the age of 85 in 1995, my wife inherited it as a part of her estate. Later on we passed it on to our son who still owns it (along with the box & papers).
BTW - son owns also the little Titan .25, which out of the hundreds of firearms owned by my immediate and large extended family, is only the second gun that has actually been used in a self defense situation.
It has had less than 50 rounds fired through it in all those years.
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