My buddy John Lawson was then the gunsmithing editor at American Handgunner magazine, where I was the law enforcement editor. He presented my 8-year-old with one of his inimitable “S n’ S Specials.” The “S n’ S” stands for “Sugar n’ Spice,” and it’s a gun he developed for little girl shooters, starting with one of his own nieces, as I recall.

