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Thus, we take it as a given that this article won’t be a diatribe against mouse guns, but rather an inquiry into how well the Beretta Tomcat fulfills the mouse gun role.

The Pistol

Built to be sold to the people who are tired of waiting in line for the Seecamp LWS-32, a hard-to-find pistol in the Czech double-action-only pattern that has no sights and is the size of a small .25, the Beretta Tomcat partially succeeds. It’s available now at your local gun shop, and at a remarkably affordable price, not the scalper’s ticket so many charge for a Seecamp. It’s the size of a .25, all right, but the size of Beretta’s own double-action first shot, 11-ounce Model 21 Bobcat .25 auto, which is 4.9 inches long with its 2.4-inch barrel. Somewhat more ruggedly constructed, the Tomcat weighs 13.1 ounces with chamber empty and magazine removed, and 16.6 ounces on my calibrated electronic scale when fully loaded with seven rounds of 71-grain ball in the magazine and an eighth round, the Gold Dot 60-grain hollow-point, in the launch tube.