It's a great little gun, had one in the 90's, but went to the double action one. To me they are too small for my big hands. The safety was always a seemminglly unnessary addition in a belly gun. I see Sig did it and kind of started a little momentum, but all those I knew that bought the 238, have either sold it or kept it but no longer carry it. It is a nice little gun also. The need for a bug, or second weapon, "as theses are used for by most of us that carry a second gun" is more easily put in motion by a lcp or kel-tec 380 double action in my opinion. It's a weapon of last resort, meant to be used when you either cannot get to your larger carry, or something malfunctions with your main weapon, or you need to arm a second person. There are more uses than the ones I mentioned, but listing them all would be subjective, so I chose my 3. The need to have yet another step, to release the saftey just seems like it no longer make sense in a tiny pistol. I have a 1911, and it's a different animal, the controls are larger and is not the same as handeling a 14 oz or less pistol. I am sure there are plenty of people who will disagree, and I expect that. But for my taste the lcp "type" pistol is self explanitory, you could give it to an unarmed party with little to no explanation if you had to. Also if you were hit in your right hand or shoulder unless trained to do so, you suddenly have a saftey to deal with on your weak side.
One thing we don't always think of is that while many "older guns are great shooters" at the time they were made, they did not have the alternatives that we have today. When I was a young man either you went with a snubby or a walther, or mauser, that was as small as they got. You still had a 30+ oz gun when loaded.
