THE 21 ST CENTURY ARRIVES ...
To steal a line from the TV show, Travelers, “Welcome to the 21st .” It wasn’t that long ago that the latest breakthrough in EDC gear was 9mm pistols that were not much larger than .380s used to be. Oh, back in the old days (not much good about some of them), we all loved the size of .380 compact pistols while being just a tad anxious about carrying “only” a .380.
Then, within the lifetime of the newest EDC pistol-packers among us, 9mm pistols shrank down to the size the bigger .380s had been … and then shrank again … until the compact 9mm pistol was no larger than a compact .380 had been.
But, as with all things, there was a price: capacity. At six shots per, it hardly mattered if what you were carrying was a snub-nosed revolver, a .380 or a 9mm Parabellum.
Not that the pistol makers didn’t try. The smallest 9mm Glocks, for example, held 10 rounds in
