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Left: The magazine for .22 Short Minx …

Above: … is distinctly different from that for the centerfire .25 ACP Jetfire.

The trigger finger, when held straight, approaches the muzzle of these tiny pistols.

I recently accepted an assignment to teach in a foreign country where I could be licensed to carry a gun, but couldn’t carry anything larger than .32 caliber. We were able to postpone the trip long enough for me to decide on a .32 Magnum or a .30 Luger auto pistol. I expect it will be the latter. If I were to find myself in a country that said I could carry a gun, but it had to be a .25 caliber or smaller, I would unhesitatingly carry a Beretta Jetfire .25. Or two. Or three.

But I wouldn’t carry a .22 Short. It’s tough enough to get a sharply rimmed round to feed in a small semiautomatic pistol without making it a Short rimfire round. As it is, Beretta had to build a little ramp into each magazine to make this pistol work in .22 Short. Not for nothing did John Browning design the .25 ACP cartridge expressly to feed in small auto pistols.