Southpaw friendly handguns

[AK74U]

Guys, I'm looking for a Southpaw friendly handgun for my mother. I've been looking at S&W M&P, and FNH FNS,FNX, & 509. When I say left friendly as in mag release, safety, and slide release. Any good experiences with any said weapons? Or any suggestions?

 

[Wheeler]

As a lifelong Southpaw you might be surprised at how easily she can adapt to a 'regular' gun. There really isn't such a think as a true lefty friendly pistol, even those with ambidextrous controls, unless you can find one with the ejection port on the left side.

That being said, the M&P is a pretty well set up pistol for those of us who are truly in our right minds. I have no experience with any of the others. FWIW my semiauto pistol of choice is the CZ P07.

 

[WarAJEagle]

The new M&P 2.0’s are hard to beat. I just switched to the 2.0 Compact and love it.


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[gh1950]

Beretta Px4 - G model

three sizes, has grip inserts so that you can adjust it to the size of her hand. Standard, compact and sub-compact. What I'm going with right now.

Ambi decocker is standard, mag release is easily reversible.

I haven't looked at them all, but I've never seen an ambi slide release.

The old S&W all metal semi autos (models 39 and 59 and later series) have factory ambi safety/decocker.

Beretta 92 has ambi decocker/safety, and mag release can be reversed.

Of course the ultimate ambi handgun is a revolver. Note that the cylinder on a revolver opens to the left, and favors a left handed shooter for reloading.

 

[Hillbilly Headbanger]

Don't forget HK VP9 /VP40, as well as Glock gen 5.






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[StuP]

There's a truly left handed 1911 featured in this months American Rifleman. Mirror image of a conventional 1911...............

 

[AK74U]

Thanks gentlemen. I'll take her to the shop and just let her hold all said weapons.

 

[Wheeler]

Thanks gentlemen. I'll take her to the shop and just let her hold all said weapons.

If you're going to do that, why not go to a range that has rentals and she shoot some of them as well. How they feel when holding the is not always the same as when shooting them.

 

[Glockadopoulos]

Gen 5 Glock

 

[Necrosis]

Not much point in trying make handguns lefty friendly, imo get used to using a right handed handgun or you'll have issues using 99% of handguns. I'm a lefty and I shoot/carry a Glock in standard configuration. I release the mag with my trigger finger (what else is it doing during a reload? And no chance of being in the trigger guard), and release the slide by racking it (often recommended by experts be it eliminates the failure point of a stuck/dirty/etc slide release).

While this may be slightly slower than an optimized lefty gun, this manual of arms will work to reload/clear almost every pistol out there. Ambi controls on a pistol are not as necessary as on a rifle imo (where you might not be able to easily/effectively reach the mag release, safety, or charging handle as a lefty without mods).