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The trigger pull is quite good in both double- and single-action. As with their modern service pistols, the current Beretta .380s have generously sized sights that are easy to see, particularly for those of us with aging eyes.

But let’s look at the biggest advantage of the Beretta .380s as currently produced …

The damn things work!

My experience with the elegant and stylish Walther pistols is that some of them feed hollow point ammo and some of them don’t. If you have a good one, the splendid little Walther-influenced SIG .380, will work as well as a Beretta. If you don’t have a good one, it’ll show up in the first few hundred rounds, and you’ll have to send it back to the factory to make things right. The SIG .380s will also slice your hand with the slide as it comes back, and most of the Walther pistols will do the same; they don’t bite as much since S&W started importing them a couple of years ago and made Walther extend the grip tang, but they still bite some. I’ve seen Colt .380s that worked with JHP, and Colt .380s that didn’t. Contemporary .380s from Colt are scaled down versions of the Government Model .45, and if you have average size adult male hands and shoot with a strong grasp in which your thumb is curled down, there’s a good chance that you’ll accidentally depress the magazine release and dump the magazine on your foot.