PMCI - September 2021

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FIREARMS - RUGER LCP MAX
RUGER LCP MAX
Earlier this summer, my wife, Candace Swanson was asked to participate in a test and evaluate (T&E)
process for the new Ruger LCP Max .380 ACP. A production sample of the pistol arrived for her at our local
FFL partner several weeks prior to its release on July 1st. The T&E process was a joint venture between
Ruger and the women’s not for profit organization, The Well Armed Woman (TWAW) Shooting Chapters
in which Candace is proudly a part of. -TS, CS
Several outstanding members within this
organization were specially selected to take
part of this event in order to provide a female
shooter’s perspective to Ruger. Everything from
carry comfort, grip size, ease of racking the slide,
trigger press, sight acquisition and felt recoil
were on the table for comment and feedback. I,
being the helpful husband that I am (insert evil
grin and halo here), volunteered to lend a hand
with helping my wife with the testing process to ease my own
curiosities and report back to our PMCI readers.
To say Candace, wears many hats personally and
professionally would be a gross understatement. She is first
and foremost an awesome mom of our two daughters, an
extremely patient wife putting up with my normal hijinks
and not only a highly successful project manager for a large
firm in the construction world, but also the CFO of three of our
personally owned businesses. With all that said, Candace still
finds the opportunity to donate her time as a multiple certified
NRA and USCCA Instructor to the TWAW Shooting Chapters as
both a multiple chapter leader and Florida State Leader.
Through all the madness that Candace and I call our daily
lives with our family, friends and careers, we both religiously
carry concealed firearms daily. We regularly hone our firearm
fundamentals as well as always look for better ways to sharpen
our situational awareness and assist our kids in doing the same.
This opportunity to provide direct feedback to our friends at
Ruger about the LCP Max could not have found a better
opportunity to be field tested amongst the everyday lives of
the American gun culture.
EARLY LCP EXPERIENCE
To begin this T&E opportunity, Candace and I were not strangers
to the LCP series. When Ruger first introduced the original LCP
.380 platform in the early 2000s, I was a Deputy Sheriff serving
on the SWAT team. This role afforded opportunities in which
I worked in the traditional uniform, the heavier BDU tactical
gear as well as plain clothes with far less available armor and
tools of the trade. Our department issued the Glock model
21 chambered in .45 ACP. For those familiar with his pistol,
it was the physically largest gun Glock made at the time and
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