What I Carry and Why: Jeremy S’s Beretta Nano

By Jeremy S

[ED: In response to reader requests, this is the fourth in a series of posts by TTAG writers revealing their choice of carry guns.]

I’m not sure my rig’s tires had even cooled off from the move back to Washington from California before I was putting fingerprints on digital paper as part of the Washington CPL (concealed pistol license) process. After living in the Bay Area for over a decade with better chances of my wife acting as wingman while I hit on one of RF’s comely daughters than of acquiring a CCW permit, I didn’t own a suitable carry pistol. The approximately 30-day turnaround on the Washington CPL gave me a month to finalize that choice, and the time was spent putting rounds through the few candidates I hadn’t yet played with . . .

My preferences — no manual safety, long-ish and heavy-ish trigger pull, lilliputian height, slim as Kate Moss, 9mm caliber — were plugged into the find-a-gat-a-tron and the leading contender was Beretta’s Nano. Of that list, my biggest specification concern was the height from top of slide to bottom of grip.

I had managed to carry a pistol enough — even in California without a …Read the Rest

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