When editor Harry Kane and I were putting together the 2005 edition of the annual Complete Book of Handguns, we included an article on very small hideout guns. These ranged from the little Guardian .32 auto, to Beretta’s .32 Tomcat, to the J-frame S&W Airweight .38 Special revolver, the sweet little Kahr PM9 micro-size 9mm Parabellum and the Beretta 86 .380. There was no question that of all these guns, the Beretta .380 was by far the easiest to shoot and to hit center with at high speed.
