It's a great little gun, and built like a tank. But it is not a range gun. I would be terribly surprised if you find someone who thousands of rounds down an LWS32...except maybe Larry himself, or folks specifically stress-testing the pistol.
Dry fire is fine on the .32, but I seldom do it. It's just not very productive, other than getting used to the trigger pull, and that doesn't require lots of dry fire. The .32 has a miniscule barrel length and no sights, so dry-fire practice doesn't provide much in the way of feedback: unless you're really yanking the gun when you pull the trigger, minor deviations in point-of-aim and muzzle stability just won't be noticed.
If this sounds like I'm saying a second pistol may be in order for your wife if she's a new(ish) shooter, you're right. The Seecamp is a close-range, deep-concealment, mouse gun. That's its job. You really can't learn accuracy, trigger control, or follow-through (and certainly not sight alignment and sight picture...there aren't any
) with a Seecamp. IMHO, you need to already have those skills developed, then they'll translate over nicely to the little pistol.About the draw-bar spring thing. It really isn't as sensitive as you might gather from looking at what came in the package with the new gun. Larry gives everyone a free spring to make up for stupid gun handling (I suppose because he used to see a lot of returns for that reason); and I couldn't call it a design flaw. The problem doesn't occur if you try to pull on the trigger with the magazine removed from the pistol. There's a magazine safety that moves into position to block the trigger when the mag is removed. What can foul things up is when someone applies pressure to the trigger while removing the magazine. How bright a maneuver is that? Squeezing the trigger while removing the mag prevents the magazine safety from moving into position. Since the mag safety isn't in place, the trigger can now be pulled, squishing the mechanism and draw-bar spring. Then if you try to forcefully seat the mag back in place, the draw-bar spring will be damaged. So you see, you have to make at least three dumb maneuvers in a row to actually damage the spring. But that became Seecamp's number one repair problem, so Larry started including that extra spring.
Like MrsFosforos said, you don't often find a used Seecamp on the market, and when you do, it doesn't stay on the market for very long. That alone should be enough to assuade your buyer's remorse.
I have three, true, mouse-gun sized pistols, and the Seecamp is the only one that's carried. (I was gonn shoot mine in today's Mouse Gun Match at Impact Zone, but ended up with a scheduling conflict.) You gotta be sure the ammo you're using will feed properly, because the tolerances there are tight--and don't do strange things with the trigger when removing or inserting magazines--but otherwise it's a little all-steel tank that'll just keep on running.