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380 ACP Now that we have reach the 14th installment of our epic Pocket Pistol Series, it’s probably time that I get around to talking about the caliber that completely dominates this category of handguns: .380 ACP.

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If you saw my video about .32 ACP a few weeks ago, the history of .380 ACP is going to sound really familiar. It was develop by John Browning in 1908, just nine years after he came up with the .32 ACP. The first .380 pistol was the Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammer less which was a variant of the Model 1903 chamber in .32. Back in the states, John

In the mid to late 1900s, the popularity of .380 ACP fade in the US, along with most other pocket pistol calibers. I think a lot of this simply had to do with the effects of urbanization. As people move into cities and suburbs, carrying a handgun became a less socially acceptable thing for polite post-War Americans to do in many parts of the country.

On top of all that, in 1968, our wise and all-knowing Federal government passe the Gun Control Act. Among other things, this law create the federal licensing system for firearms dealers, it prohibit the sale of guns to minors, and most relevant for our discussion today, it create the “sporting purposes” standard for importing firearms.

That all start to change in about 2003 with the release of a little pistol call the Kel-Tec P-3AT. Base on the success of their P32 in .32 ACP, Kel-Tec was able to just slightly scale-up the design and make it work for .380 ACP. With a polymer frame and a load weight of just 11 ounces, the P-3AT was by far the lightest .380 ever to go into production.