Yaay!
It took two and a half hours of driving each way, sitting around waiting, and getting home after midnight, but last night I was able to arrange for Maggie to get her birthday present.
We met with an older fellow and purchased his LEO brother's S&W nickel plated model 19-4. It's going to require some cleaning up but it is a little-used police gun with a very light single action trigger. It's gonna be sweet and she's really excited. (Like I'm not...I'll be shootin' that thing too).
She is dead set against dirty porn so I have to wait until she is happy with how it looks and how it cycles before posting pix.
Oh....we also got a sweet price on it...the rest of the family just "wanted it out of the house".