The 2022 winning pistol indicates that the industry is listening to what women—and men—want in a handgun

From: Elegant & Armed: Welcome to Elegant & Armed, a lifestyle blog for stylish and safety-conscious women.

It’s one thing to range-test a gun and individually determine that it’s wonderful enough to nominate it for an NRA Golden Bullseye Award. It’s another to have a group of impartial women—many of them new shooters—corroborate that opinion after shooting and surveying a selection of various makes and models of 9 mm pistols on their form and function. But that is exactly how the Walther PDP Compact came to be awarded the 2022 NRA Women Golden Bullseye for Handgun of the Year.

Before we connect those dots, I’ll begin in the spring of 2021, when I first fired the 9 mm striker-fired PDP, Walther’s replacement for its outstanding but outgoing PPQ. The German gunmaker had already classified the PDP as its new flagship concealed-carry pistol.

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