I like the old Colt Pocket Pistols and have copies of a couple ... the 1862 Pocket Police .36 and the 1849 Pocket .31 ... but these are little more modern than those.

Colt Detective Special .38 Special

Smith & Wesson 340 .357 Magnum

Amazing how small that Colt Detective Special is .. and it is a 6 shot.

You can see it's really not much larger than the S&W. The Rossi .357 in the photo would require a rather large pocket as it's a S&W K-frame. Think Model 19.

When I was younger I had 2 of these that I carried... Astra Cub .22 Short. Little bitty thing would fit in your shirt pocket.

And I carried an Excam .38 Special derringer for many years. Long before you could get a license to carry. It fit well in my pocket or my boot.

About 1985 I borrowed a friends Beretta .25 and carried that in a belly band holster when we went to Disneyland in LA ... I wasn't going anyplace with my family without some kind of protection and the .25 was a lot better than nothing.

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