Looking for: NAA LR Mini or Blackwidow IWB Holster

[Alpha13]

My wife is in the process of getting her permit and these are the largest guns she is willing to carry. She would like to carry it iwb, preferably with a clip so that she can get away without a belt on occasion. If you know of where to get one inexpensively, please pass it on...

Thanks!

[JAB]

NAA has a selection of holsters for the little fellahs on their company website. Here is the link to the ones they have for the LR version

LR Holsters

This is the IWB they offer. I bought one for my 1 5/8 inch barreled WMR version across the counter at Randy's Guns and Knives in Knoxville. The leather is pretty thin but servicable and it did a pretty good job holding the gun in place. Reholstering with it lay somewhere between a PITA and impossible. Also, this was before I realized that I simply can't stand anything IWB other than in a belly band. I kept the holster, though, thinking it might clip inside a boot top but have never tried it for that. To be truthful, I don't even know where the heck that holster is at the moment. Anyhow, this is it:

HIP-L BR INS PANT HOLS LR BROWN

Another 'clip on' option is the folding grip/holster. I've read people raving about them and I've read people who said they were junk. I'm also not sure how fast presentation would be, if needed, with them. I have heard that they make the little beasts easier to hang on to and shoot because they give more to hang on to.

GHG-LC LR HOLSTER GRIP COMPACT

Hope that helps.

Oh, just FYI, I ended up making both a 'belt slide' type OWB and a pocket holster with an integral spare ammo pouch for mine (I sometimes carry it but only as a BUG.) NAA offers versions of both of those types of holster, too.

I know this was not the purpose of your post but I would hope that carrying the NAA will help your wife become accustom enough that she may consider an alternative. My wife also will not carry anything that is very large or heavy. She liked the size and weight of my NAA and shot it well enough at the range but I convinced her that a small, five-shot, single action revolver (regardless of caliber) probably wasn't the best choice of primary - especially for someone with little experience with handguns. She ended up choosing a Kel Tec P32 which, while still not exactly a hand cannon, is at least a centerfire, DA gun. It is a little larger than the mini revolvers but doesn't feel much (if any) heavier. I don't have them in front of me right now to compare but I'm thinking the P32 isn't any wider than the mini at the cylinder. The P32 would be even closer in size to the Black Widow which, unless I am mistaken, is a little more 'beefy' than the standard version and has a two-inch barrel. She went with the .32 because she couldn't handle the recoil of my P3AT all that well.

Edited August 11, 2011 by JAB