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No, they’re not ideal, but… There’s a joke floating about the self-defense community that goes something like this: “If anyone ever shoots me with a .25–and I find out about it—I’m going to be pissed.” That’s because the conventional wisdom is that any handgun chambered in a caliber smaller than .380 doesn’t have the stopping…
The term “belly gun” used to just mean “short-barreled revolver.” Initially coined simply to describe any short-barreled self-defense gun that wasn’t designed for accuracy at a distance—basically, “belly-to-belly”—the term “belly gun” is now used to denote short-barreled semi-autos as well. These days, as newer guns designed for CCW are getting more and more accuracy at…
