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For Defense?

I was the first guy to say it, and I’ll say it again: “Friends don’t let friends carry mouse guns.” If “defense” means defending the chicken coop from rats at close range, the .22 Short Beretta will do the job. Some squirrel hunters I know have told me the .22 Short is just right for those most edible of rodents, if they can be killed at short range. But a squirrel is to an aggressive human assailant as a man is to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. You wouldn’t take a .38 Special as your primary armament if you went to Jurassic Park to hunt the elusive T-Rex.

You shouldn’t take a close-range squirrel pistol as your primary weapon if you think there’s a chance you’ll be attacked by a 200-pound speed freak armed with a stolen .45 automatic. It’s just Logic 101.

Still Deadly

Make no mistake, the .22 Short is still lethal. Smith & Wesson introduced the cartridge just before the Civil War, and it’s been killing people ever since. Just for the heck of it, I took the Beretta to my basement along with an old, hardcover Reader’s Digest Condensed Book, and shot it with each of the rounds I had tested at the range.