I'm not used to such a small gun, and it showed last Saturday. I was shooting it outdoors and the slide took a substantial chunk out of my left thumb just behind the nail. Imagine a hangnail that becomes a divot and you'll get an idea of the unpleasantness.

An injury like this wouldn't happen to a new gun owner, but I got lazy while shooting. I was trying to show my .45 carrying friends what the .380 could do at about 20 yds so I decided to brace with my left hand for accuracy and I left my thumb kinda dangling out there because there is no good place to put it on a gun so small.

Edit: BTW, that's not my hand or my image in that photo. i just hotlinked an image I found on google. So if anyone is spending money to digitally enhance the fingerprints in that photo you will be sorely disappointed.