Back in the day, Beretta .380s were considered the standard in concealable pistols. While they weren’t the smallest, or the cheapest, you could count on them to work in an era where most small pistols were jam-o-matics. Officially/technically this is known as the “Series 81” line, but they are far more well known as the Beretta Cheetah, and various models were available in .22 LR, .32 ACP, and .380 ACP, fed by single- and double-stack magazines. The .380 ACP versions were the most popular in the United States, and the Cheetah was produced from 1976 to 2017. CCW pistols were huge sellers at the time they were discontinued in the US, but its design was a bit dated when they stopped producing it.
There were a number of reasons the…