was at the gunshop yesterday looking at guns with the step son. He wanted a consealed carry gun and really wanted a revolver. We looked at alloy j frame smiths and the ruger lcr's. What shocked me is the rugers were about 50 bucks more then the j frames were. Ruger had a slightly better trigger pull but both were decent the rugers lighter, the smith had quicker reset. The plastic looking ruger was but ugly compared to the classic smith j frame but I know that looks doesn't add much when your needing a gun. But I would have to say that for 50 dollars less id take the smith all day and would probably pick it if the price was the same. Now if the ruger was 50 bucks cheaper I might be swayed. It took me a long time to get used to plastic guns like glocks but these days I buy more of them then anything. Maybe some day the ugly black plastic revolver trend will catch me by surprise too. Me I walked out with an lcpII at half the price of either of them but do have to admit to having a couple j frames at home already.