NAA Guardian, pocket gun options
Many of my shooting buddies have been CCW for 1-2 decades longer than I have. I have watched the evolution of weapons they have carried over the years and they have all ended up carrying guns and calibers that I would never have wanted to carry before. In my opinion it was always about how much damage the bullet could do, followed by reliability, and finally durability. I was always turned off by some of the pocket semi-autos that I cam across because the recoil tended to be pretty nasty. I am not afraid of shooting 50 BMG rifles, but I don’t like shooting too much recoil in a handgun. I know an individual that actually has developed nerve damage from shooting too many heavy handguns and if it hurts after I shoot it, I don’t want to carry it as a CCW gun.
My first adventure into CCW was with a friend that had 20yrs more experience than I did. He showed me he had evolved to the NAA guardian .380 pistol and that in his opinion, it was the only gun he could carry at work with any level of comfort. My only issue with some pocket guns is that they are so small that I can’t feel them, and I like to know I can feel the gun on me at all times. The real issue I have noticed with NAA Guardians is that you have to really pay attention to the round counts you have put through your gun and how many you put through your NAA Guardian gun magazines and rotate out the springs before you have any issues. The NAA Guardian is strictly a CCW gun and will handle some of the hotter loads for the .380 compared to some of the Kel-Tec counterparts. I was fortunate enough to test out some of the Rohrbaugh R9 pistols next to the NAA Guardian and the only thing the R9 had over the NAA Guardian was the trigger pull.