I've been with my Fiancee for almost 2 years now, and have tried to convince her to let me take her shooting. The answer was always "No", so I stopped pushing it, figuring that she'd come to me when she was ready.

That day came when I was on my last work shift. She called me to talk. Long story short, there is a guy at work (student) who has been stalking and harassing her for months now and after reporting him to her supervisor, he stayed away. Then one day, out of the blue he showed up to tell her that he's got asbergers and probably has sociopathic tendencies as well, that he doesn't feel emotion. But he was still hitting on her and trying to be close to her (she kept having to back up away from him). And, living in a small town, it would be pretty easy for him to find out where we live and find out that I go on work shifts where she's home alone.

When she called, she said she wanted to learn how to shoot. I was flabbergasted! I knew she'd ask eventually, but thought it would be years from now!

Once I got home from what work shift, I field stripped my glock and gave her just the frame (as she was scared of it with the barrel in, saying that even knowing it was unloaded and seeing it, she still thinks its loaded, which I said is the first rule of gun safety!). We went over the firearm laws, the basics of a firearm, then I put the frame away and showed her the barrel, slide and magazine.

It may not seem like much, but thats a HUGE step in my opinion! Now I just have to find a nice weekend and get her to the actual range, which even if she doesn't shoot the first time but just watches me, I'm okay with that. She told me that once she gets over that initial fear of shooting a gun for the first time, she's probably going to love it and will want to master it.

Thought a .22 pistol would be best to start her on, but after talking agreed that 9mm would be a good start (already have the lone wolf 40-9 conversion barrel for my Glock 23) and if its too much, she'd get over the recoil quickly.

Any other tips for introducing someone to shooting for the first time?