The smile says it all! She has a year and a half to get her permit. She loves the ar platform, then moved to pistols. Started with the .22 single six, then she was anxious to move up to the 9mm's. Handled the p229, and American Compact no problems. She's only 5' 100 lbs, then asked to shoot the Ruger lc9s. I thought that might be a bit snappy for her, but she absolutely loves that gun. (It does have a great trigger). She was consistently hitting X's with that gun at 5 yards. It was a great day!