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Downsides? Really, only a couple. If you have the earlier double-actions with the hand-lowered hammers, you’re almost better off to carry them cocked and locked. Also, to get the great reliability and accuracy and easy shooting of the Beretta .380s, you have to accept that, as Wilson accurately categorizes them, they’re medium-frame guns. If you want a small-frame pistol, small enough for a pocket or ankle holster, and you want it to be a Beretta, you’re probably going to have to go down to the Tomcat .32.

But if you’re looking for a .380 that will be carried in or on a belt, worn in a shoulder holster, packed in a purse, or stored in a lock box or glove box, the Cheetah size Beretta will be awfully tough to beat.

Endnotes

(1)Wilson, R.L., “The World of Beretta: An International Legend,” New York City: Random House, 2000, P. 204.

(2)Ibid., P. 202.

(3)Ibid., P. 205.

Model 92:The Flagship of the Beretta Fleet

Brace yourself for the longest chapter in this book. There’s a reason for that. The book is about modern Beretta pistols, and we’re going to talk about the gun that wrote the most complex and significant chapter in the history of those handguns. The Model 92 is the defining Beretta pistol of modern times. Adopted by all branches of the United States military in 1984, one of the three or four most popular law enforcement pistols in the nation and one of the most distinctively recognizable handguns in the world, the Beretta 92 has become a modern classic, like it or not.