y'know, the thing I've never really understood was why, in essentially identical platforms, the .32 ACP was so much more popular than the .380. My grandfather, who ran a printing business in NYC during the 30s and 40s and was licensed to carry a pistol -- and owned a couple of 1911s so surely understood the large bore concept -- carried a 1903 when he went to the bank to get the payroll (remember back when people were paid in cash, rather than direct-deposit electrons?).
They are unbelievably flat and slick, that's for sure, but they are not small, and given the length and height -- we are not talking Kahr K9s here -- I would have thought he, and most others would go for the .380. After all, it's the same size.
Thoughts??? Obviously a lot of people thought the same way, given the numbers Colt sold.
