I don't know what is available in Uruguay, but I would steer them to a Ruger 10/22. If you can get the 25 round mags there, great. If not, the standard 10 rounder is fine. It doesn't kick, is easy to load (even for a lady with weak hands) and they may actually go shoot it one day. You could even put a cheapo laser sight on it. Load it with some good ammo- no bad guy in our hemisphere or yours is going to walk through a storm of hollowpoints coming his way.

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