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Micro Handguns

First, let’s define our terms. How small is small? Smith & Wesson dubbed their 13-shot 9mm pistols of the 1980s, the Model 469 (blue) and 669 (stainless), “Mini-Guns,” but they were substantial enough that a number of cops wound up wearing them as uniform holster weapons. Glock’s smallest models have been known as the “mini-Glocks” and the “baby Glocks.” Kahr Arms dubbed their smallest series with an MK prefix, for “Micro Kahr.”

How small is mini, baby, or micro? We can start smaller than that in the world of the combat handgun.

For many years, the tiny .25 auto was considered the quintessential “ladies’ gun” and the “gentlemen’s vest pocket pistol.” There has been the occasional save of a good person with one of these guns because they simply had a gun, and might not have had anything bigger when the attack came. However, we’ll never know how many people have been killed or crippled by attackers who weren’t stopped in time by the feeble bite of these tiny sub-caliber guns. As the streetwise martial artist Bill Aguiar put it, “A .25 auto is something you carry when you’re not carrying a gun.”