LCP Max Hits California Roster
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Pocket guns in California have been a frustrating category for a while — the roster kept shrinking options down to whatever ancient design happened to survive the approval gauntlet. The LCP Max clearing that hurdle with most of its features intact is actually worth paying attention to.
The mag disconnect means dry-fire practice requires a magazine in the gun, which is mildly annoying but manageable.
"Mildly annoying" is generous. If you're buying this as a serious carry piece, dry-fire is part of the program — and fumbling a magazine into the gun every time you want to run trigger work at the cleaning table adds friction that compounds over weeks. Not a dealbreaker, but something to factor in before you buy.
The honest use case for a gun this size isn't gunfighting — it's the days when a full-size pistol isn't happening and you still want something real in your pocket.
This is the conversation I have at the counter more than any other. Someone comes in convinced they need to justify every carry gun against a Glock 17 standard, and you have to walk them back to reality. A pocket .380 that actually makes it out the door beats a full-size that stays in the safe. The LCP Max at 10.6 ounces empty is the kind of weight you genuinely forget about.
The tritium front sight and 10-round capacity are what separate this from the original LCP — which was always kind of a "better than nothing" gun rather than a "confident carry" gun. Those two things together change the calculus on range practice and on how much you trust it when it counts.
At $300–$350, you've got room to buy a couple boxes of Gold Dot and actually confirm your hold and point of impact before you commit to carrying it. That's the move regardless of what gun you're running.
For those of you running micro-.380s or similar pocket guns — what does your range practice actually look like for that platform, and how many rounds did it take before you trusted it enough to carry?
Read the full article in The Handbook → | By Steve Duskett
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