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Many carried the Beretta 950BS with the hammer down on an empty chamber.

The longer-barreled version of the 950 seemed unclear on the concept for concealment and didn’t sell well, but greatly improved its shooting characteristics.

Handling The 950 BS

Though small, this pistol does not bite the hand with the edge of the slide as so many .25 through .380 pistols will do, when fired by average-size men. It doesn’t seem to ding the hands of petite females or kids at all.

The trigger pull is surprisingly good for a pocket pistol. The 950 BS seems to average 5 to 6 pounds of pull weight. Lawson brings that down to an easy and crisp 4 pounds.

Like bigger Berettas of the mid-20th century, the 950 BS has a push-button magazine release located at the lower rear of the left grip panel. Some are of the opinion that’s not the best place to put it. It looks to this writer as though the Italian designers simply bought into the German concept of the 1930s, where the thinking was it would be a good idea for weapons with removable magazines to have designs that forced the shooter to remove them by hand instead of ejecting them and leaving them behind on the battlefield. (You see this concept today with other German small arms, notably the HK series of submachine guns and battle rifles.)