My wife is 5'3" and 130. She has been shooting my handguns for years, but has never been 100% comfortable with the fit and feel of most of my handguns. Before I redeployed back to Iraq the second time I took her shopping for her own handgun, as she had finished her concealed carry course. We tried many, many makes andmodels, both revolver and pistols. She wanted apistol in 40 S&W, but in the end she fell in love with a 9mm. She loves her Taurus 24/7 Pro-9BP-17 9mm. So far she has well over 1K rounds thru it, factory and reloads, and it has yet to have any failure or malfunction of any kind and itis very accurate.