My relationship with small pistols has been tenuous at best. Most don’t fit my large hands, making them literally a pain to shoot.
The slide tears a groove in the web of my hand, and I’m lucky to get a couple of fingers on the grip. Admittedly, as age creeps up, and after three decades carrying a pistol, it’d be nice to have something lighter, but I don’t want to lose any of my fighting capabilities.
That said, I was intrigued when the 9mm Glock 48 was introduced, as it seemed to check off all the boxes. Essentially a single-stack, 10-round G19 slimmed down for concealed carry, it was what many of us had been clamoring for since the G19 was introduced. And being able to install a G43 slide,…