DUAL PURPOSE POCKET POPPER
It’s hard to overstate what a success the LCP has been for Ruger. Launched in 2008, the original LCP became one of the bestselling pistols in the history of ever. BATFE tracks manufacturer sales by caliber, and, in 2011, which was the last year the LCP was the only .380 Ruger made, the BATFE reported Ruger produced 177,000 of them. That’s a lotta guns.
In 2016, the LCP was joined in the catalog by the LCP II, which offered an improved single-action trigger with the now-common tabbed safety, a slightly wider backstrap to mitigate recoil, and last round hold-open. While it’s impossible to X-ray the purses and pockets of America, anecdotal evidence indicates these pistols are among the most popular carry guns of our time.
They aren’t without their downsides, however. Capacity isn’t much more than a typical snubbie wheelgun, and they take a similar amount of effort to shoot well. Part of that is because if you were going to design a carry gun that would discourage people from practicing with it, it’d look like … well, a lot like the “Elsie Pea” and “Elsie Pea Too.”
The sights range from notional, on the earliest variants, to adequate on
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