Gun Review: Beretta 950B

1. 4.5 stars for a gun accurate within 10 ft. 3 yds. Seriously.

   • It’s not a sniper rifle. It does what it’s supposed to do.

     • Sure, but a six-inch group at seven feet? You could get that kind of accuracy from a plumbing-parts zip gun. There are plenty of pocket guns that will put all the rounds in an inch or two at that distance.

       • It’s perfect for a small woman who lacks the strength to rack a slide.

   • What exactly do you want a gun that size to do? Hit sub-MOA groups at 50 yards? Get your head out of your tactical backside and think for a moment.

     • I appreciate the subtle nuances in your comment but a 6″ group as far as I can throw a fist is not 4.5 star worthy. I have a handful of “pocket” guns that will do a 6″ group at 25 yds with no real effort involved. Im comparing apples to apples here not apples to sniper rifles. I didnt jump his ass and call him a junk gun fanboy or any bs like that so a bit of civility would do you angry toddlers some good. As posted above a non rifled zipgun could do 6″ at 7′. Carry on ragers…

     • It is a very small gun, with very bad sights. On the other hand, with a 638 and a laser sight I can hit a pill bottle at 21′ offhand pretty consistently.

   • Geeking out over here!:-D
     I’ve mentioned my 950 Pipsqueak several time in comments here, most recently yesterday in the QOTD “What’s the smallest gun you own?”
     With no exaggeration whatsoever, I can toss a soda can five or seven paces in front of me and roll it across the field with all eight shots from my little Beretta- never missing once.
     I’d say it’s accurate enough for it’s intended job.

   • 1950 at the age of 15 I legally owned a 950 in 22 short, I used it on winter nights to pop rabbits along country roads, years later I carried in my tackle box when Fishing the swamps of Ft Stewart. It was a sure killer on cotton mouths.
     Today I still have this little 950 that every so often I will run a 1/2 box of ammo through.

     I also have a 950B in 25 auto that I often stick in a jacket pocket, a backup is ment to get you out of trouble, not fight a war. The popping of the little 25 will put so called bad guys on the run

   • I bought a Beretta 950BS (.25 ACP) for my wife in the ’90s. On the first trip to the range, we were hit with multiple ftf. It was very accurate at 7 yards, but not reliable. It was sent back to the factory for repair. Three weeks later, on another trip to the range, it was 100% reliable, but not nearly as accurate. It’s also punishing to shoot. So it goes.

     • I carry mine with round in chamber, in a emergency trying to find a spare round and tip up the barrel is not a suitable action. Racking the slide requires both hands and is not a suitable reaction. I practice shooting at man sized targets from 1 to 5 feet away, with gun held at belt level

   • Laughing I own one and live it. I have shit it alot and have no trouble hitting targets 15 yds outs. But I live off guns… I own two H&k p7s these aren’t easy to find luckily both had 3 mags. I have the Astra also… old and odd but I wouldn’t trade my collection for anything!

2. I enjoyed your review of the little Beretta. Are magazines for it hard to find?

   • I think Cheaper Than Dirt has them. I bought one there about a year ago.

3. I stumbled across a used 21a a few years ago, and had a similar “well look at that lil bugger” moment. It wasnt in the best shape cosmetically but $200 later and it was in my pocket. These little guns are alot of fun to shoot.

4. For the price you paid? My last Ruger LCP bought new with a stainless slide cost me $239.

   If you like it ok but for a back up firearm you could have done better.

5. Small yes reliable maybe, but useful? .25 acp is not a caliber I consider useful. Of course i don’t want to be shot with one and any gun is better then none. But they are MANY better choices. Got rid of my CZ70 in .32 acp and very happy with S&W Shield.

   • Years ago I took over management of a movie theater in Dayton, Ohio. The previous manager had been working late and investigated the sound of breaking glass, his Raven Arms .25 in hand. He was hit from behind by the burglar’s partner, they took his pistol and shot him three times before leaving. He survived. I always carried a .357 S&W 29 while I worked there.

     In a conversation with a Dayton cop he told me of a call he went on. A man answered his front door to be confronted by his girlfriends ex. Said ex put all 8 rounds of .25 into the victim with the final shot entering his mouth and breaking several teeth, which knocked the victim out. Believing his rival dead, the perp fled. The victim survived the assault.

     The first rule of a gunfight – have a gun. The second rule – It’s a good idea to have a gun with a caliber that will reliably do the job.

     • S&W model 29 is a .44 Magnum, not a .357.
       If it was a large N-frame Smith .357, maybe it was a model 28 or 27?

       And I’d say the lesson from the first encounter is: if you are going to be so tactically unaware to allow yourself to be jumped from behind, then carrying a gun in a pipsqueak caliber might help you survive the situation. If he’d been carrying your .357, he’d be dead.

     • Yeah, yeah. And I’m sure you carry at least a .40 because 9mm doesn’t have enough “stopping power”. Old wives tales exist about any caliber.

     • Would you care to read about how many people I saw shot dead with a .25acp or .22lr, while working in a emergency trauma medical environment after my time in the Army? Let’s just say more than I care to see again. Shot placement dictates the outcome, and a little luck. .45 makes a bigger hole, but that doesn’t outweigh where the hole is. Knockdown power is a myth (except with a Ford truck). .25acp is not a joke, and neither is .22lr.

   • For those who like Marshall and Sanow’s books on statistics from actual shooting incidents, according to their numbers, .25 ACP is literally the worst caliber that exists. Worse even than .22 LR for self-defense.

     • Bit loaded in favor of the .22 LR- which has a lot of longer barrel pistols. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a .25 with a 4″ or longer barrel- while there are maybe a million Ruger Standards, Smith and Wessons, Colt Woodsmans, etc that have that or longer.

6. .25 acp was designed by Browning to give the same performance as a .22lr out of a 2 inch barrel without the reliability issues of the rimfire ammo in a semi auto. In about 1903.

   100+ years later we have small semi autos in service grade cartridges. That doesn’t mean the older guns are useless. And not everybody likes plastic.

7. Even a mouse gun should be accurate to 20 yards easily. I think the accuracy problem is the trigger actuator, not the pistol.

   • Nah its the pistol. I thought I had issues with my 21A when bought new back in the 80s. I couldn’t hit a standard NRA 22 slow fire target with it and sent it back to Beretta.
     They fired it from 15 ft no more. I still have the target they sent back with it.
     And a note saying don’t expect it to be a 4 inch 25 yard gun. Its not gonna happen. Now not in those exact words.

8. When I 1st started carrying a handgun back in the late 80s. One of my 1st purchases was a 21A. Its most of the time better then a hammer. And it will go with me when a “real” gun cant be carried.
   Id been so ingrained against 25acp by all around me back then. 60 ft pounds isn’t much more then a whack from a medium sized ball peen hammer. Now 30 years later I wish I had bought the 950. A 25acp isn’t much but at 10 feet it will go bang while my 21A. Not so much. Although the number of FTFs. I can count on 1 hand. 100% reliable with high velocity 22s.
   30 some odd years later Im still wondering if I made a mistake every time I put it in my pocket.
   All those little Berettas back then were under $200 new.

   • Same situation here. Long before the current generation of pocket-stuffer guns were available, I carried a 21A on the premise that having some sort of gun was better than nothing. Then as always, my thinking was that regardless of what you carry, it’s better to avoid trouble than anything else, and to try to get away from it if it finds you, but if neither of those options work out… well, you do what you have to with what you have.

     I always enjoyed shooting the little Beretta. It’s more than accurate enough for its intended purpose, and surprisingly good with the right ammo and a shooter who does his/her part.

9. THIS again? As a collectable yeah but this isn’t even a 22. And yet I saw someone carrying a similar one yesterday. How do you get 4 stars? Good review nevertheless…

10. Nice review. I’m a Beretta addict, and would have bought anyway, but good to see one, and get a brief range report was good. Thank you.

11. I don’t know if the author is available to comment, but if he is my question for him is: between the 950 and the 21 or 21A, which is better? Obviously comparing the .25 ACP versions.

    • I’m not 100% as I haven’t shot the 21A Bobcat, but the versatility of a DA/ SA is certainly something I like over a cocked and locked SAO. The biggest problem I have with the manual safety on the 21A is I’m left handed and they only have a one-sided safety option.

      Thanks for reading.

      • Nice review. I have a Tomcat and I like having the option of using the external safety or not, and I prefer DA/SA in general. I did have to send it back to Beretta b/c the barrel hinge got really loose and they ended up replacing rather than fixing it. I thing if the 7 .32’s didn’t do the trick you could always beat someone to death with the slide. It looks like something from a railroad car.

12. Elderly pistol designs such as this are a lot of fun to own, handle, and shoot, but putting such a gun into service as a carry gun may not be such a good idea. This one, in particular, either has no external safety, or a single rudimentary hammer-blocking external safety (similar to a 1911); It doesn’t have any internal interrupters, blockers or lockers to prevent the inertia firing pin from falling onto the primer of a chambered cartridge, nothing to stop the hammer at rest from hitting the end of the firing pin, nothing to prevent a cocked hammer from falling (in the case of the no-safety version) except the fragile sear, nothing but a tiny ear of metal to stop the hammer fall on a ‘safety’-equipped model (not intended for ‘cocked-and-locked’ carry)–which means that a chambered round in this gun is a BAD idea unless you intend to fire it NOW. Beretta’s own manual for the gun advises against a chambered round for carry as well.
    Nearly all of the old SA designs are very similar–as rudimentary internally as a Colt percussion revolver. They are NOT drop-safe, and NOT intended for carry with a chambered round.
    There are much better and far safer modern choices in the same price range available than a design such as this one.

    • This was a backup of choice for many years by police world wide

    • Wrong. That gun can be carried perfectly safety with the hammer down on an inertial firing pin.

13. It’s a cute little popgun and I’d like to have one in my safe.

14. Law enforcement are civilians; there’s no literary distinction. LE are civilians whose job is law enforcement.

    The “opposite” of civilian (to grossly simplify the definition) is military.

    • Yeah, well you might make that distinction
      , but to an LEO, there’s just us and them! Them is divided into two camps, crooks and the citizens, (read civilians you are sworn to protect with your life! ) Trust me, it ain’t just the military who aren’t civilians! Please get your head out of your behind and look at what LEOs have to face every day and not just when (deployed to Afghanistan!)
      Expecting flames!
      Unkei

15. Psshhh. It’s pretty nice, sure, but it’s no Intratec Protec 25.

    🙂

16. I bought a .25 Jetfire for my girlfriend (now wife) during her freshman year in college, 1965-66. This was BC, as in, Before Jimmy Carter, and bought new at retail it cost me $25. She carried that gun (chamber loaded) until about 1974 when I replaced it with a Colt Detective Special. Note that when I bought it and gave it to her (straw purchase) I was 19 and she was 18. I fired it before I gave it to her, and I was accustomed to hitting soda cans at 100 yards with my 4″ Python, but since I only wanted to function test it to make sure it would go “bang”, I just set a soda can on a fencepost and emptied the magazine from about 6-7 feet without making the can wiggle. I was about to die laughing. But when I took her to shoot it, she got more and more discouraged at her poor performance, couldn’t hit squat, and once when I saw a snake about 15-20 feet from us and took its head off with one shot from my Python, I thought she was going to cry. Finally, I talked her into trying the Python (“I couldn’t, it’s so BIG!”) and she blew shit out of the can she had just fired 50 rounds of .25 at without scratching it, after 6 rounds she had 6 holes in it, looked like swiss cheese. I made her understand (she was, and is, a babe!) that the goal was to thumb the hammer back, then if distance from the threat allowed, fire one shot at the street. If anybody attacking her got close enough, shove the gun in their ribs and start a nice cadence of “bang, bang, bang” until he didn’t want to play any more. I figured that the bullet would punch a puny little hole, and then the burning gasses behind it would enlarge the hole to several inches across. Like most, we never found out.

    Decades later, when she had 2 .38 Spls and a .380, I took it to a gun show (Post Jimmy Carter) and sold it for $150 without trying. Being able to tip up the barrel to drop the hammer safely, load the chamber, unload the gun, etc was a big selling factor, to me and her both.

17. Thanks for the write up. I have the 950BS. It was handed down to my wife (me) after FIL passed. I find the sight picture nonexistent and I often tip up the barrel accidentally when trying to shoot it. Heck, I like this little thing, because gunz.

18. Love those little pocket guns! (Pay no attention to nay-sayers in the Peanut Gallery).

    My favorite is the Baby Browning – all steel PLUS an external safety. Many kids of the generation X,Y, etc, pooh-pooh the 25 auto, however, it was, and still is, a good round. I even reload it!

    My dear departed Dad, a multiply decorated Airborne Ranger, told me once that the tiny little bullet his gun shoots will kill a man just as fast and just as dead as an atom bomb.

    He was partial to a Sterling .22 semi-auto derringer as well as other tiny pistols. He, and all of his poker buddies, had similar guns in their pockets at all times. They are fun to shoot and will bring a smile to anyone at the range (for a variety of reasons) . . .

19. A little off topic, but can you comment on (or perhaps Review) the Honor Guard? There’s a hole in my collection 1 stack of 9×19 wide.

    • There is actual a review on TTAG that was done on the Honor Guard back in May.

      http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/?s=honor+guard

      My two cents: I personal love the gun, it feels like a Sig p320 trigger in an M&P shield with a really good grip. It is a bit heavy and people rip on it for large font on the slide, but it was well worth it for the price I paid ($380+FFL).

20. I am sure the tales of 25 acp woe above are true, but my experience are is different. first as far as accuracy goes, My baretta 950BS gives me accuracy similar to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wAXXn8_2w a few inches at 15 yards. I have had mine for 25 years. as an old guy, I remember when a ” permit” was unheard of in the vast majority of states. prior to the “shall issue ” revolution in the 90’s, you weren’t getting one. 25 was the most popular cartridge in guns like this and the baby browning’s and ravens. as far as power goes , I personally know of one incident of a large irritated person being stopped with one contact distance round of 25 to the heart. I spoke to the person involved. I c tell you I was a sad thing for him to have to do that, but he had to and was not charged. I know there is much better out there, bit this one gives you 9 rounds of dependable center fire deterrence, and mine at least has been stone cold reliable .  When very descrete pocket carry is the order of the day, this gun is viable.   here is a longer video on this gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aluBrpNNFjA

21. A Beretta 950B MINX was left to me by my father, originally bought for my mother. When the review says .22, it should say .22short. As for the reliability, that MINX frequently fails to extract. Without an extractor, the gun relies on blow-back to push the casing out. So either it hates the ammo or it’s still dirty after repeated cleanings. I’m not limp wristing it.

22. This was one of the few quality pocket pistols back in the 70s and 80s.

    The only problem was the pathetic 25acp cartridge.

    Still better that a stick at distance.

    We would have given a lot for an LCP back then, now they are common as salt.

    Still an interesting gun, just maybe not one I’d carry as a first choice.

    The stainless DA/SA version is still a great little trail and picnic pistol,

    They are usually more accurate than you can hold since they are so light.

    I like Berettas, even baby Berettas.

    • It isn’t pathetic to the droves of folks that have been killed with it.

23. All of our tactical people forget that good .25 autos were state of the art for deep concealment 60 or 70 years ago. There were a few .32 autos on the market but in the days before lightweight polymers, PPKs and Astra Constables were heavy and somewhat clunky. A Baby Browning, Colt Junior, or Beretta 950 (or 21A) rode in a gentleman’s pant or vest pocket. Ladies dropped one in their handbag. Law enforcement officers carried a .25 or the old High Standard .22 Magnum over and under derringer in a cuff case or down their boot. Sure these pistols were pretty anemic but they were all people had unless they went to a much heavier and bulkier pistol in a “real” caliber. In the early 70s my old captain carried a Model 19 duty pistol and a Colt Junior in his left front pants pocket. He called the Colt his ear gun. If a bad guy tried to get his service revolver. the Cap was going to draw the Colt with his left hand, stick it in the bad guy’s ear and shoot until the BG quit being bad or until the gun was empty. That was the theory. Thankfully it was never tested.

24. Get a seecamp LWS .380 basically the same size/weight and in a more potent .380.

25. Has anyone ever heard of the Beretta Model 20? It’s a single, double action .25. Not too many were made in the early to mid 80’s. It’s a nice shooting gun and very accurate!

26. It was one of the last of Beretta’s quality guns. Today Beretta makes garbage including the newer made Model 92 that has a junk cast locking block, junk plasticky safety and a junk plasticky trigger and junk plasticky op-rod..

    Beretta’s 950 is no longer made anymore either but beware the American gun had a lot of problems with the safety wearing out and flipping on during the firing cycle, The best thing to do is simply disable the safety or have it permanently altered to be in the off position.

    My own two Italian model 950’s (they did not have a safety) work flawlessly and no I will never sell them. I had one nickel plated and carry it in very hot weather when no other gun can be carried. I carry it in the same holster as shown in this article as it keeps the gun upright in the pocket and keeps any sweat leaking through your pants pocket off the gun which by the way will eat right through the aluminum frame and the steel slide. So beware.

    All in all perhaps one of the very best .25 pocket pistols ever made so naturally they discontinued it to make more money selling their current made plasticky garbage like the Nano which should be called the big stinking Turdo which I would not own if you gave me one and that includes their garbage current plasticky model 92.

    And before you bad mouth the .22 lr or .25acp take a look at the President Reagan shooting and see the one security guard spin around half way and hit the ground as if lightening struck him. He was hit with a .22lr that did not expand but acted like a full metal jacketed round and it still knocked the shit out of him. He was hit in the shoulder.

    • Hi also have a Beretta 25 950 with no external safety everything I can find says I should not carry it with a round in the chamber but I do notice it has a half cock I’m assuming it’s better to carry it in half cock for the round in the chamber then with the hammer down and round in the chamber sounds like you carried years for a lot of years how should I best carry this pistol with a round in the chamber. If you don’t really know then tell me so thank you for your input Simon

      • Do NOT carry on half cock. Hammer down on the inertial firing pin is totally safe.

27. HELLO, CAN ANYONE OUT THERE TELL ME WHY THE RECOIL SPRING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY BERETTA 950 JETFIRE GO’S OUT OF ALIGNMENT. IF I TAKE MY 950 APART NOW, I HAVE TO TAKE THE PLASTIC GRIPS OFF FIRST, AND THEN REMOVE THE SLIDE. IF I TAKE THE SLIDE OFF FIRST, THE RIGHT SIDE
    OF THE SPRING GO’S OUT OF ALIGNMENT AND STRIKES HARD UP AGAINST THE RIGHT PLASTIC GRIP WITH TOO MUCH FORCE. I KNOW THAT EVENTUALLY THE RIGHT GRIP IS GOING TO CRACK IF I WERE TO FOLLOW BERETTA’S INSTRUCTION ABOUT REMOVING THE SLIDE FIRST. THE SPRING GOING OUT OF ALIGNMENT JUST RECENTLY STARTED TO OCCUR, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY, AND THE GUN STILL SHOOTS.

28. Hello, can anyone out there tell me why the recoil spring on the right side of my Beretta 950 jetfire go’s out of alignment. If I take my 950 apart now, I have to take off the plastic grips off first, and then remove the slide. If I take the slide off first, the right side of the spring go’s out of alignment and strikes hard up against the right plastic grip with too much force. I know that eventually the right grip is going to crack if I were to follow Beretta’s instruction about removing the slide first. The spring going out of alignment just recently started to occur, and I have no idea why. My gun still shoots well, out of the last 500 rounds fired, I only had one malfunction.

29. I cancelled the very top Comment (in bold upper class letters) but the cancel did not go through. Sorry about the upper class letters.

30. The other day I put a 1/2″ piece of plywood against a tree, then a piece of roofing tin on top of that. I shot a 950 BS in .25 cal at that target. Bullet cleared both of them, no problem. I would not want to be shot at with this gun at close range. You can conceal these things most anywhere. You can hold them in your hand unseen. Keep the front of your hand facing forward while holding it. These things are highly reliable. Keep your magazine cleaned.

31. .22lr is the most lethal round in the US. Plus they ricochet when they hit. If you want a high knock down round in a handgun, use .45acp.

    • .22lr does not bounce around. There is no such thing a knockdown power. That is mythical nonsense. Educate yourself.

      • This is an old.post but as a paramedic and an instructor the 22 bullet does in fact bounce off one bone to.another inside the body much like a.pinball and over 30 years of EMS I have seen many people with that small 22 hole.externally with a drop of two of blood but completely bled.out internally from this pinball effect . Do I prefer to carry it no does it kill effectively no . Surgeons hate 25 and 22s because they have to trade that erratic path they make when they are patching up people in the operating room

32. As a boy I had one of these in 22 short, ideal for popping rabbits in the head on moonlight nights on the gravel roads in Illinois. I had this little gun when I joined the Army 1955, found it was a ideal gun to stick in the tackle box when fishing the swamps in the Ft Lee area, water moccasins were my chief target.
    “6 inch groups ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺”

33. I have had my dads Baretta for years, He has been gone and its been in our safe. We never touched it. It was his when I was a young girl. Saved away in a hideaway nightstand. Our safe was stolen a couple years ago and they contacted me saying the gun had been used and confiscated. I had to wait a couple years for the trial to be over but now I am allowed to get it back. I have to prove a Handgun Safety Certificate. Where do I get such a thing? Any info is appreciated!

    • A handgun safety certificate will be defined by the law in your state. It sounds like one of those things where you take a class, answer a 25 question test, and pay a fee. I suggest you just go to your local sheriff’s office and ask them what it is and how to get it.

34. Caliber to knock power discussions sound a lot like favorite truck brand or football team discussions. I carry my 950bs in a leather pouch not much thicker than a wallet, full magazine, Hornady hollow points, empty chamber. Barrel tip-up to load 1st round. Cock hammer with thumb. Then I put all 8 rounds in heart/lung area at 15 ft or between eyes and mouth at 10 ft or a combination as distance is reduced. 1 handed. Aimed fire- 8 shots in the bottom of a beer can at 12 ft. Ammo cost is high but until recently I shot “left over” ammo from the family store we closed so familiarity with all my weapons has been at dealer wholesale cost. The almost ceramic coated finish is a good selling point to me. But this finish is not apparent in some of the pics I have seen. Is this the only weapon I own/carry? No. Fit the weapon to the situation and skill level. And do not forget the surroundings There are object all around us that can be used to attack. Firearms simply keep the fire at arms length; solve the problem at distance.

35. I have had a 950 BS for over ten years. I carry it in those non-permissive environments where I can’t carry a “real” gun. It’s reliable, accurate for typical self-defense distances, and I have complete confidence it it for its intended use. I travel a lot to places where I don’t want anyone to know I’m armed unless it’s a life or death “say hello to my little friend” scenario.

    • Been carrying a 950B much as you have for years. I retired from the military 1976 with a 11B mos.

      Most of those that sneer at the little 25 have never busted a cap on someones ass nor have they ever heard a round go by their ear

36. I was once hiking with a friend in northern Alberta when out of nowhere came this huge brown bear, charging straight at us, and was she ever mad! We must have been near her cubs… Anyway, if I had not had my little Jetfire, I would not be here today. Just one shot to my friends kneecap was all it took….the bear got her and I was able to escape by just walking at a brisk pace. It’s one of the best pistols in my collection.

    • 👍🤣

37. All guns are an interesting piece of history. I’d rather have an Aston Martin than a Chevy Vega but they’re all interesting. I have a 950 Jetfire and also the original Bond .25, a Beretta 418 in the original box with 1953 sales receipt. If I felt the need to carry a handgun for self-defense, my S&W 642 would be second choice to my Browning Hi Power. In Maryland, I don’t have many options. As for caliber, a Texas Ranger was once asked why he carried a Colt .45. He responded, “Because they don’t make a .46”.

38. My stepdad died and one of these pistols is what he left me. I’m not a gun person, even though I just went out and bought a Rossi lever action rifle for the impending apocalypse. After the dust clears I’ll probably get some lessons and learn about guns. The slide is evidently frozen in place on the Beretta. I’ll probably hit it with some Liquid Wrench or WD40 to get it working again.

    • 👍 the slides are surprisingly hard to rack on those little pistols hence the tip up barrels

39. I bought my used Minx 22s in 1980 and still shoot it occasionally. I find it to be very accurate for what it is. The front and rear sights are tiny but excellent. You can toss a bottle cap on the ground six or eight feet from you and hit it pretty much every time. Gangs of fun! Frankly, if you can’t get minute of BG at five yards, you probably need to spend more time at the range.

    I’m retired LE, 25 years. Would I carry this gun as a back up? Uh, no. Only if there’s no alternative. But let’s remember the Sixties and Seventies, before drug money made 9 mils affordable to the bad guys. Back then, the so-called Saturday Night Specials were all 22s, 22lr and 25acp. Thousands of people over the years were killed with tiny and often very crappy guns. This little Beretta is anything but a crappy gun.

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40. I am amazed by the stupidity in these comments

41. First gun I ever purchased was a 950BS in .25acp – that was 33 years ago and I still carry it daily. I’ve fired many rounds thru it with ZERO issues. It’s also extremely accurate. Would it ever be my “primary” ? Not unless I had no other choice. Is it a great back-up ? You better believe it is. For all you “suburban street warriors” that poo-poo the .25acp, I’d suggest you not go up against one in the hands of someone that knows what they’re doing – it’ll likely be the last mistake you ever make.

42. Beretta 3032 Tomcat Inox is the best gun to carry anywhere due to its weightless feature. It’s very handy in various situations. I carry it all the time for the sack of my security.

43. Many of you are missing a very important consideration concerning the effectiveness of these tiny weapons; that being the relatively primitive nature of surgical medicine back in the heyday of those vest pockets pistol. If you got shot with anything and had contemporary surgery, there was a distinct possibility the surgical procedure and general anesthesia itself would kill you from “anesthesia shock” from ether and sodium pentothal, paralyzing drugs and other agents used at the time. There were no handy devices like pulse oximeters, cardiac monitors, blood pressure monitors to keep track of your life functions, nor electro-surgical cauterizing devices to control bleeding. X-ray equipment was not as good as now. And those tiny bullets, and the wounds they caused being very difficult to find under poor lighting conditions inside a human body. Also they are not very disabling wounds, so people tended to ignore them after the initial shock. But bouncing around in a pocket the bullets were pretty contaminated with crud; especially .22 bullets which were generally coated with a wax finish during their manufacture which was a magnet for dirt, lint and other things that carry germs. Often times those shot would avoid seeking medical attention until peritonitis or other infection was so advanced and painful that by then antibiotic measures were often unsuccessful. Ultimately people were justifiably afraid of being shot at all because dying from any gunshot wound was a distinct possibility and such deaths could be long and horribly painful . Thanks to the various miracles of modern medicine, many criminals survive being shot by any weapon so they can get back on the streets to commit more crimes

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45. My range has a 950 for sale, not sure if the b or bs model…345.00 would put it in my pocket, and I’m trying hard not to jump on it…we are not adverse to small guns, and if reliable I would carry it…there is a lot to be said for the gun that IS in your pocket and not at home…it being only a .25acp is of little concern, we don’t plan to attack anyone…

46. You are NOT supposed to carry this gun on half cock. The pistol has an inertial firing pin – you’re supposed to carry it hammer fully down.

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