![]() ![]() Our test gun for this article was a Px4F Sub-Compact. Double-action-only systems like the “C” and “F” never sold well to anyone but liability-conscious folks, who generally come from the institutional markets of the law enforcement services and corrections. It is the format in which Beretta prefers to sell to the civilian market. The only format I have thus far actually put my hands on is a Px4 Sub-Compact. It mounts a spring-loaded slide lever that serves as a decocker only.įinally, there is the “F” series, traditional double-action first shot with combination safety and decocking lever. ![]() ![]() Beretta also catalogs a “G” option, in which only the first shot is double-action and the subsequent shots will be fired from an automatically-cocked single-action platform. Both of these are “slick-slide-guns” with no levers on the slides. The “D” style is double-action-only with a long, heavy pull, which I personally don’t like as well as the “C” option. The “C” style is double-action-only, very light and smooth, Beretta’s answer to the light, controllable DAK system offered by Sig Sauer and the similar LEM option from Heckler & Koch. The Px4 Storm Subcompact disassembles very easily and quickly into five parts, of course, not counting the spare mag.īeretta’s Px4 system has been offered in four formats. (2) The external hammer allows the shooter to holster with the thumb on the hammer, preventing its rise and subsequent fall if anything catches the trigger and pushes it back – something like the too-narrow safety strap on a poorly designed holster, or the drawstring of a concealing warm-up jacket, or the shooter’s own finger, all of which have been documentably known to cause un-intentional discharges during holstering. Why would there be such a niche at all? Well, (1) the Storm’s design allows second strike on a recalcitrant primer with another simple pull of the trigger, and most striker-fired handguns don’t. The Storm is storming that market by attacking the niche that likes the older style hammer-fired autopistols. With a polymer frame that both reduces weight and reduces cost at both the manufacturer’s end and the buyer’s, the Px4 Storm is priced to compete with other “plastic pistolas.” Those for the most part are striker-fired. However, the Px4 Storm that Beretta introduced a few years ago, most certainly did, and the Sub-Compact variation of the Px4 Storm hit the US market in 2008. Their siren song of more bullets and less recoil in a package of similar size and weight is hard to resist.īeretta realized early on that their classic 9mm pistol, the exhaustively proven Model 92 that for a quarter century has served the US military all-service-wide as the M9, did not mechanically lend itself to a chop-and-channel size reduction that would bring it down to sub-compact dimensions. 38 revolver, is being replaced by subcompact pistols chambered for the 9mm. In many quarters of law enforcement and the law-abiding armed citizenry that old stand-by concealed carry gun, the snub-nosed. Seen here with Insight X2L laser/light combo. Beretta’s Px4 Storm Sub-Compact is built around modular technology, delivering concealed carry handling with large frame firepower. ![]()
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