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The Tomcat is a cooler looking gun. Its trigger guard looks like it was part of the design instead of a piece of sheet metal folded over and stapled. Where the little Beretta DA .22/.25 has a thin blade front and V-notch rear sight, the .32 version has a small but much more visible square post/square notch rear sight picture.

It has a tip-up barrel, perhaps a tiny bit stiffer in the lever to operate than that of the other pocket .22 and .25 Berettas, but easier to manipulate than the 180-degree lever on the Model 86 .380. Good news. Weak or handicapped people can load the chamber easily without having to actuate a spring-loaded slide. Bad news: there’s no extractor, the design trusts blowback force to clear the spent casing out of the chamber, and if there is an extraction failure, you can’t just work the slide to clear it. Doing that will merely bring up another round against the jammed spent casing, the dreaded and erroneously-named “double-feed jam.”

More good news, however is that during tests, the gun never failed to extract, and a poll of half a dozen other owners showed the same collective experience.