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Can anyone recommend a good left handed 9mm handgun.

There isn't too much out there for left handed shooters i've found.

thanks in advance!
 
There are quite a few of pistols offer ambi safety and mag release control. But man should find their way to live, don't let it stop you to enjoy the guns that you want.

Trigun
 
Heckler & Koch P7 and P7M8/M13 are nearly ambidextrous, out of the box. The slide release is actually the grippy-squeezy thing on the frontstrap common to all of them. Whichever hand is holding the pistol can drop the slide with a squeeze. Bone simple.

The magazine catch on the P7 is European, heel-type; ambidextrous by design. The M8 and M13 have identical, thumb-operated magazine-release levers mirrored on the left & right side.

The only things about my M8 that keep it from being truly ambidextrous are its right-handed ejection port (a technicality), and its appallingly tiny, nearly impossible-to-use slide stop on the left side of the frame (a very real design flaw). That little catch is designed and positioned for right-handed circus freaks with pencil-thin fingers who can see with their eyes closed. Or Yuri Geller.

Going over it in my mind, now, I think it may be easier to engage that slide stop by putting the pistol in the left hand, and drawing the slide back with the right. Thank goodness one doesn't have to use it to drop the slide.
 
Try the CZ85 Combat. My wife is a lefty and she really likes it. Everything is in the correct place for a lefty.

It is ambidextrous actually and i never had a problem with it although I am right handed.
 
Ruger SR9 works right or left. But honestly, my 1911 has no mods whatsoever, and it isn't hard to work now that I have a little practice. Its just a matter of getting to know your gun(s).
 
I've gone through just about everything over the last 20 years as a lefty and for 9mm right now I have an STI Ranger (1911 single stack) in 9mm with an ambi thumb safty and a Sig 226 9mm. The Sig I've just learned to turn slightly in my grip and use my left index finger to work the slide release and de-cocker. I'm just as comfortable with the Sig as the STI.

DAO pistols like Glock you only need to work the slide release with the left index finger

DA-SA like the Sig you need to work the slide release and de-cocker with the left index finger

SA pistols like a 1911, CZ or Browning you really want an ambi thumb safety (plenty of after market ones avail)

Years ago I had a Tanfoglio (CZ clone) with ambi thumb safety and the mag release switched to the right side. I was so screwed-up with it over there I moved it back after a couple of months.

Good luck and let us know what you end up selecting and why.

Cheers

O'Kelly's Boys
 
I purchased the CZ85C for production shooting, thinking I needed all the ambi controls. After shooting for a few years (1 competitively) I found i never use the right side slide stop. I run the controls with my left index finger, and release the mag with my middle finger second knuckle. The safety is the only thing I use, with the left thumb, on the right side of the gun.

PS: love the cz85c!

Cheers
 
I shoot a Glock southside. It does take a little practice to trip the slide with your trigger finger, but hey, you are supposed to practice anyway! Mag release is simple, Safe Action trigger eliminates those annoying switches on the rear of the slide, and it is as left-friendly as I have encountered. Ambi safeties tend to have the annoying design of a longer, wider lever on the port side of the gun, and a wee tiny afterthought on the starboard side. The wee tiny starboard switch is no problem, (one just learns to hit it by extensive dry practice) but the nice big fat tacticool portside one just begs to get bumped off safe while riding about in a holster. Glock doesn't have those problems.
 
Slide stop on the left side of my pistol has never been an issue for me. Just took a little practice to work out the kinks using my trigger finger to manipulate. That being said some lines of thinking/training are against using the slide stop during a reload. Reaching down with any individual finger is too fine a motor skill during high stress as where using your off hand to pull and release the slide is a more gross motor skill that requires less though/dexterity.

To each there own though. With a little practice a lefty should be able to shoot just about anything.
 
i'm left hand - left eye dominant- born that way- now approaching my 60's- learned on a 1911a1, and the ONLY gun i have trouble with is a bolt- it's all about TECHNIQUE, MOST PISTOLS ARE AMBIDEXTEROUS at least to some degree- only the operators are SINGLE MINDED
the pistol is meant to be a last ditch weapon, or something to hold you over until you get to your primary, and thus by it's nature is DESIGNED to be ambidexerous
 
t-star said:
i'm left hand - left eye dominant- born that way- now approaching my 60's- learned on a 1911a1, and the ONLY gun i have trouble with is a bolt- it's all about TECHNIQUE, MOST PISTOLS ARE AMBIDEXTEROUS at least to some degree- only the operators are SINGLE MINDED
the pistol is meant to be a last ditch weapon, or something to hold you over until you get to your primary, and thus by it's nature is DESIGNED to be ambidexerous
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I understand your position on this, and as a lefty who had to make due in the military I completely recognize this view on firearms operation. It actually became so inherant to me to operate the C7 when it was right hand only operation that when they did finally bring out "ambi-ish" C7s I still used it as I did the non-ambi version.

That being said, after I left the military and decided to buy a firearm for myself, my first and biggest concern was ambi capability for potential purchases. Afterall, unless you have an outside constraint on your equipment and tools, if you have a choice, choose the tool which most fits your specifications. I don't want to have to make due with adapting to a right handed weapon when I can choose to purchase an ambi firearm from the offset. This is why I did some research and went with the Walther P99. It seems to be one of the most ambi comfortable handguns (chose the P99 over PPQ for other non-relevent reasons), and therefore was a top choice from the get go.

When you are buying your own firearm it shouldent be about "can I operate this weapon left-handed" that is usually a given....usually. What it should be about is "which weapon fits my personal shooting technique the closest?". For me it was the P99, this might differ for other left handed shooters (especially those who have used right handed firearms for so long that it is more natural for them to use that exclusively).
 
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