Walt Sherrill
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Bill DeShivs said:Striker-fired pocket guns:
Browning .25, Browning .32 &.380. Bernardelli, Galesi, Rigarmi, Colt, LeFrancais (no extractor!), Walther 8, Walther 9, Sterling, MAB, Bryco, Raven, Jennings, CZ, as well as many lesser-known brands.
They all use extractors, too.
You're right again... as long as you look at OLD guns that almost nobody uses anymore. Many of the guns you listed haven't been made for 60+ years. (The Walther 8, by the way, had an internal hammer.)
I was unconsciously referring to modern guns, which people actually use nowadays, and should've been a bit broader in my comments.
I do know of some who use .32s (by Kel-Tecs, NAA, Beretta, Taurus, and SeeCamp). Remington bought the Rohrbaugh designs, so it's hard to say what we'll see from them in the future. I have a Remington RM380 and it's a pretty nice gun (Locked-breech, hammer fired with an extractor and ejector.)
A number of LEOs use the Kel-Tec P32 as a last-resort backup gun, but not as a primary carry weapon. (It'll fit in a shirt pocket or ankle holster that nobody will notice.)
I don't know of anyone who actually carries a .25 as a serious self-defense weapon, nowadays; while more reliable than a .22, a .25 acp round doesn't really perform that much better. But there are also people who do carry a .22 Magnum revolvers with a barrels that are remarkably short. I'm not sure a .22 magnum with such a short barrel offers much more performance than a .22lr or .25 acp would offer, but I guess it's probably better than a pointed stick...
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