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“Now he was getting back up from the floor so I flipped off the safety on my gun and put it to the side of his head. I kept second-guessing myself. He was getting up and calling out for help from his accomplice in crime. I didn’t know if the accomplice was going to come in the back room so I put the gun to the side of his head and pulled the trigger. Bang the gun went off and he went down to the floor half over a chair. I heard the doorbell ring as the accomplice ran out. I locked up and called 911. He was still where he fell, dead.

The Model 3032 Tomcat is a fast-moving pistol in the gun shops.

Sitting low in the hand, the Tomcat has low bore axis and minimal muzzle rise. The slide abrading the hand is much less a problem than with many other pistols in its class.

“Two days before the holdup I’d just picked up the Tomcat from the gun store across the street. For some time before that I hadn’t been carrying a gun. My 9mm was just too big.”

There are those who like the Tomcat as a police backup gun, too. My friend and colleague Mike Boyle is one of the nation’s top police gun experts, and an outstanding trainer whom I’ve seen teach in such venues as the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors. In a roundup article discussing pocket pistols for backup in a police-oriented publication he and I both contribute to regularly, Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement, Mike had the following to say about the Tomcat in the February, 2005 issue.