SIG 2022!!... and she's very happy.
It turns out the only thing that mattered was the ability to easily release the slide and the long, slide release lever on the 2022 seems to work this task without equal.
The salesman did suggest she look at (after I suggested the 2022 was the best value for money gun in it's class) the similar Ruger. She absolutely could not work the slide release on that gun; the salesman then suggested all she had to do was to release the clip, turn the gun in a safe direction (like it always should be anyway), pull back on the slide and it would quickly slam forward. My wife looked at him like she looks at me when I've said something stupid and asked why she should buy a gun that took 3 steps and 5 seconds to do what another gun would do in one step and one second...
Now if we can just find some more 9mm ammo...
