Beretta is actually showing something NEW new at the NRA Annual Meeting as well as their ARX 100, specifically the Pico line of pocket pistols. These EXTREMELY slim handguns are barely wider than the .380 caliber rounds that they contain, and use a combination of a polymer frame and a shiny Inox slide. The frame, by the way, is being offered not only in the standard black finish but also purple, white and desert tan. The magazine comes in a flush configuration as well as with an extended version to allow a little better grip. I’m not a big fan, as not only is it tiny but also slim, so I can’t imagine it being comfortable at all to fire. But who knows? it could surprise me. MSRP is about $400. Make the jump for more pictures . . .
This video stream (not just at TTAG, NRA website too) is maddening!
I cant tell if she’s 15 or 25 but im impressed that she’s not pointing it at her head.
The Walmart I shop at says there are gun show table guys waiting every morning to buy up any ammo that comes off the truck.
I really enjoy your updates and articles please keep up the excellent work.
Tianna
Any model in the class that outsells the Beretta will henceforth bear the title: “Purple Pico Eater”
Hopefully we will see a review here soon. It looks like a double action only, I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it isn’t too heavy. It is nice to see the external slide release that was missing on the Nano. If it is as soft shooting as the Nano with reliability from start(unlike the Nano), it could be a winner.
I teach all my kids great gun control. The two daughters are pretty darn good. Oh wait you meant something else???
Thanks but I’ll stick with my 10/22. 16 1/2 inch heavy barrel(floated), Hogue drop-in stock, decent trigger, bi-pod, red-dot sighted at 50 yds. Shoots 2″ groups at 100 yds albeit no wind. I’ve had zero problems with it and it likes the 36 grain Federal stuff that comes in bulk boxes of 525. Fun!
I got his vaccine!
What a fool. There are youth rifles and shotguns from many manufacturers, and teaching proper firearm use is safer and easier when the tool fits the user.
Just as with any potentially dangerous household item, parents are the ones responsible to make sure their young children do not have access to harmful tools. The gun should have been locked up or otherwise inaccessible.
Whether it’s his own gun or his father’s gun doesn’t matter — for all intents and purposes, the child’s gun is his to use when it is out of the gun safe, but should not be his to access throughout the day without his parents’ supervision, at least at that age.
Irresponsible parents are “the sickness”, whether there are guns involved or not.
National Geographic must have donated the photo to TTAG
Kansas just wants to be out front again. They’re gonna party like it’s 1854.
Y’know, while intellectually I realize that tool-less takedown is a Good Thing, emotionally it still gives me the screaming heebies.
I guess I just LIKE screws.
How many rights were violated? Justice is a scale.
The pictures illustrate why our rights our doomed: It’s all about hunting and sport shooting. Personally all I care about is the martial aspect of owning and shooting guns. Sure, training is also fun, but I don’t own any fine shotguns nor do I have any interest in them.
I’d love to know if he truly understands what his words say about him. I’d be very open to meeting him face to face over whatever sort of beverage and ask him that not because I want any sort of confrontation, I’m just fascinated by the dichotomy of messages. He reminds me of Dan Savage – it’s all love and compassion until you disagree with him.
we did this in CT and still lost
Its simple you open up a second factory somewhere pro gun and slowly shift production there as you build up the skillset of your new employees. Offer some “key” people a bonus to move and act as the foundation of this new factory. It might be a few years but you can shift your entire factory eventually. Moreover from a business standpoint labor is a lot cheaper in most states besides NY so you will gain a lot there.
Finally! Can’t wait for this to hit the shops.
Seriously doing things the hard way.
Take lower of your choice and add a fixed A1 or A2 length stock.
Install decent trigger group such as a Rock River arms 2-stage. The Geissele 2-stage qualifies as a “very nice” trigger and is a good choice if you can afford it.
Drop in a match upper designed for DCM shooting. (Rock River or WOA would be the top picks) These will have the free float tube already installed.
The .32 is an under rated round, I have a 32, 1903, and it is really fun to shoot.
I am glad, I do not want to add more calibers, I have a 45, but this makes it easy, I will try one.
32+P, is a very potent round.
Buffalo Bore 75 grain and Corbon has a 71 grain.
There is a video on youtube, this person shot a 32 BB +P through 16 layers of denim and 14 inches of ballistics gel.
Look it up, there is also another one, that is called the clear gel test.
Impressive.
seems the pico is 11+ oz. about .70 thick. 4in tall with flat plate mag. small groups at 25 and 50ft (probably due to real sights). can be outfitted with laser or white light (without needing a rail). hammer fired, 2x strike. lock back on empty. no mag release safety (can be fired with mag removed). trigger is engineered so dropping the piece cannot fire the pistol, ever. the hydroshock 90gr hits about 930fps, all others have less fps.
cheers
I think the S&W Bodyguard .380 is the best yet.
I think what is actually being discussed here is off the rack vs tailored.
If you are above or below the median size for people in the US then you either deal with clothes off the rack that don’t fit right or you get your clothes tailored.
Same thing for holsters.
when is the review?
Wait, I have a pistol here somewhere.