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The slide stop lever, safety lever, and magazine release lever are all ergonomically placed on the Beretta 87. The extended magazine holds 10 shots.

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Now, here, on the back of one of the author’s 81-series Beretta .380s, is a functional trigger stop! He thinks Beretta should put one of these on the Model 87.

All things considered, though, the Neos is a cool little gun. I like it better than any of the other Guigiaro-designed Beretta handguns. It’s built for fun, and in a safe, responsible recreational shooting environment, it will consistently deliver that fun. Its price, reliability and inherent accuracy, make it a splendid value, and that low price makes it a very affordable portal through which to enter the world of high-quality Beretta firearms.

The Model 87 Series

Beretta introduced the Cheetah Model 87 in 1988. It was a companion gun to the Model 84 and Model 85 series .380 caliber pistols and was functionally identical except for being chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. The same year, the firm offered the Model 89 Gold Standard, an aptly named target pistol that was built on the same frame but in single-action-only mode, with a skeletonized slide running under a high sight-ribbed barrel. The Gold Standard came with an exquisite target-grade trigger pull.