After my wife qualified for her Texas CHL using my Kimber .45, we determined that there were too many things to remember about using a semiauto for her, who has zero interest in guns and shooting other than for self-defense.
So we made "her" gun my S&W 940 9mm revolver. The moon clips made loading and reloading the revolver about as easy as it can get.
It's still her house gun, but she let her CHL lapse, and hasn't expressed any interest in renewing it. I periodically make sure she knows where it is, and that it's loaded, but that's about it as far as her interest in guns.