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The modern Beretta .380s normally come with ambidextrous safety levers. This is always a good thing. You might be right-handed, as I am, but either of us might have to lend our gun to another good guy or gal who will be using it southpaw. At any time, either of us could suffer an injury to our dominant hand or arm that requires us to carry on the weak side for a while. That’s a lousy time to have to call the gunsmith and see how long it will take to install an ambi safety on our carry gun.

If what you want is a smaller, lower-powered version of a modern military or police style Beretta, consider looking for the Browning BDA variation. Remember, its safety/decock lever is operated exactly the same way as the similarly slide-mounted lever on an F-series Beretta.

Like the second-generation Beretta .380s, the current third-generation has a .22 caliber understudy gun available that works exactly the same way. It is the Model 87. This is a handy thing for practice and training.

Recoil of the Beretta .380 is markedly soft. Virtually everyone who shoots one comments on that. When editor Harry Kane and I were putting together the 2005 edition of the annual Complete Book of Handguns, we included an article on very small hideout guns. These ranged from the little Guardian .32 auto, to Beretta’s .32 Tomcat, to the J-frame S&W Airweight .38 Special revolver, the sweet little Kahr PM9 micro-size 9mm Parabellum and the Beretta 86 .380. There was no question that of all these guns, the Beretta .380 was by far the easiest to shoot and to hit center with at high speed.