Additional thoughts...
Having a home gun, that the smallest person, or one physically limited, that might have to employ it, can effectively use.
I personally know of too many members here on Staff, including Moderators, some with many hours of training that subscribe to this line of reasoning.
Small is not used in the derogatory context. Small may be just being small in stature such as a wife, teenager or even grandparent.
Physically Limited is not used in the derogatory context either.
(I do not choose to use the word "handicapped".) Nor does it apply only to someone with permanent limits.
i.e. Recovering from minor surgery, such as emergency appendectomy. Unexpected accidents, such as sprains, burns, cuts, etc.
Another often overlooked situation is that of expectant mothers.
Add, as one ages, arthritis can give a person some days as not as good as others.
This includes having a .22 rim-fire, in the event, one or a member of family, suffers a detached retina, or undergoes neck/back/shoulder surgery, and there is imposed, NO RECOIL orders from Physician, Surgeon and Physical Therapist.
The revolver, is a proven firearm. The .22 rim-fire allows one to get the correct basic fundamentals down, and these transfer to the center fire revolver.
i.e. Model 18s were used for training and practice, for officers using issued Model 10's.
Ditto for similar offerings by Colt.
Set-ups & Lessons
Today ya'll call these stages and training.
I still do as mentors shared with me.
I have done this at rim-fire matches, and center-fire matches.
First off, I don't do a timer, for a start, nor do I care for a time.
[This rattles folks from the get-go]
Gun is unloaded, as are speed loaders and magazines.
Shooter gets a sock, or similar, on weak hand.
Now some kind of threat is introduced.
Lesson(s):
What is the earliest signal they can pick up on?
How do they deal with the threat?
Did they survive the threat?
Often times the threat is one, that "gun" is not the best answer.
Often times the person ends up "dead" as they did not pick up a signal at all, or early enough. They immediately went to "gun".
Hint: It is much easier to make a revolver "hot", even if one handed. If nothing else, grabbing gun and ammo and stuffing in pocket for "in case" and being able to charge cylinders if need while at a "safe distance" or "taking prudent steps".
i.e.
I "may have" introduced the threat Fire. *wink*
So "gun" may not be the best tool. Still there is no harm in grabbing the Model 10 and six loose rounds as one deals with the threat of fire.
i.e. One set-up was the gun having to be separate from ammo on a trip, as the area just traveled through, was NO GUN. Ammo could not be in a magazine, or speed-loader or speed-strip.
As the occupant, injured, you had to deal with a threat at a Rest Stop.
I grew up with Veterans of Conflicts, and Polio Victims and "Interesting Persons".
There was no 911.
Heck, many folks did not have their own phone line, instead shared a "party-line".
Folks were self reliant, as they had to be. With chain gangs doing work, and correction facilities and railroad stops and...The nearest law enforcement person, might be on the other side of the county....
Will Fennel says: Focus on the target, not the equipment.
Well I was raised we focused on what threats there might be, and took prudent steps to allow us the earliest signal(s). Prevention plays a huge part in all this too.
Firearms, were whatever we had. Just we did "Set-Ups & Lessons" to replicate what HAD happened, and What Might happen.
Software not hardware.
Mindset, skillsets, then tool sets...
I feel safer using a safe that requires me to be 90% coherent (fingertip combination job) to open.
