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GB showed in his incident subsequent the efficacy of the muzzle-contact shot. The tip-up barrel design of the Tomcat not only eases loading and unloading for many people, but also holds the gun’s parts rigidly in battery allowing the pistol to fire when it is in hard contact with the target. Many, many auto pistols will have their parts “pushed out of battery” by such contact, and will be rendered incapable of firing. GB’s statement that he had bought the Tomcat because a 9mm was just too big to carry, really says it all. While slightly larger than some of the other new-generation subcompact .32s such as the defining Seecamp, the almost impossibly light little KelTec P32, and the North American Arms Guardian, the Tomcat .32 is spectacularly easier to shoot by comparison. Not in a class with the Beretta .380, by any means, but certainly better in that respect than the other true pocket pistols in .32 caliber.

Personally, when danger threatens I’d like to have the cry of angry 9mm leopard speaking for my side, or the snarl of a .45 caliber lion, or the roar of a .357 caliber Siberian tiger. But, you know, the meow of the Tomcat is still a better sound than the whimper of a victim …