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The brilliance of the Seecamp design, the pistol that re-popularized the .32 auto in our time, was that Louis Seecamp was able to conceive a pistol the size and shape of a Czech .25 auto that would fire the larger cartridge. The Seecamp is all the more brilliant in that it works. Now, this is the gun of Jeff Cooper’s nightmares: double-action for every shot, no sights, and only a .32. The mission parameter was for a pistol that would be used at arm’s length. Famed officer survival instructor and gunfight survivor Terry Campbell used to call these little pistols “nose guns,” because the only way you could count on stopping the fight was to screw the muzzle up the attacker’s nose and then immediately pull the trigger.

The supply of Seecamp pistols has never caught up with the huge demand in the marketplace. Other companies entered the field with “Seecamp clones”: Autauga Arms, and North American Arms with their Guardian pistol. I never did test the former. The latter wasn’t quite as reliable as the Seecamp but was easier to hit with because it had at least vestigial gunsights.