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I’ve heard it said, “If the Beretta .25 was good enough for James Bond it’s good enough for me.” Just remember that James Bond was a fictional character. Another scribe commented that he had read the Beretta .25 was the preferred handgun of the Boston mob, and they knew about killing people. Well, the Boston mob certainly knows about committing murder, but shooting helpless victims in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol has nothing to do with defending yourself against a violent, aggressive creature that may come at you on two legs or four.

Fine accuracy and extreme reliability make the Beretta the .25 caliber pistol of choice in my book. A lot of these very small guns are prone to malfunction. The .25 Berettas are not. No more reliable pistol has ever been manufactured in the caliber. Beretta has produced the double-action Model 21, a.k.a. Beretta Bobcat, for many years. For almost half a century they made the Jetfire, which is perhaps the finest very small single-action .25 ever produced.