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The Minx and Jetfire are neat little guns. Toward the end of their epoch, they were produced in stainless steel, called Inox by Beretta. If the 950 series is ever brought back, which I hope one day it will be, I would like to see a 4-inch barrel .22 Short plinking version with larger front and rear sights that would be more amenable to the development of good shooting habits. A small adjustable sight like the ones found on Smith & Wesson’s little Kit Guns, or on the smallest .22 revolvers produced by Taurus would be ideal.

The 950 series was so popular it is now widely available on the secondhand shelves of gun shops. I hope they are returned to the line eventually.

I wrote about these baby Berettas in an article in the 2000 edition of Harris Publications’ The Complete Book of Handguns. Everything I said then still goes now.

The Littlest Beretta

The .22 pistol comes into its own as a recreational handgun. Plinking – informal target shooting at things like tin cans – is always more fun if you can bring one or more kids along and introduce them to the shooting sports. Because of that a pistol adaptable to small hands has particular value for recreational shooting. The little Beretta Minx in .22 Short fills this bill nicely. Its light weight, 10 to 11 ounces, made it a darling of those who wanted to carry a gun but didn’t expect to need one, and that feathery weight makes it an ideal “fun gun” for people who don’t have much upper body strength.