[DCBryan1]

barely adequate for self defense...but better than using your hands. FWIW....25ACP was used by the most prolific official executioner and mass murderer Vasily Blokhin

Vasily Blokhin

German Walther Model 2 .25 ACP

Blokhin would stand waiting behind the door in his executioner garb: a leather butcher's apron, leather hat, and shoulder-length leather gloves. Then, without a hearing, the reading of a sentence or any other formalities, each prisoner was brought in and restrained by guards while Blokhin shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25 ACP pistol. He had brought a briefcase full of his own Walther pistols, since he did not trust the reliability of the standard-issue Soviet TT-30 for the frequent, heavy use he intended. The use of a German pocket pistol, which was commonly carried by German police and intelligence agents, also provided plausible deniability of the executions if the bodies were discovered later.

[wardaddy]

Indeed a great executioners pistol if the victim is restrained

For more practical use if do for 32 mag minimum

But if you truly want small caliber but serious

This is the bomb.....but it ain’t cheep

FN 57

Low bullet weight extremely lethal

About a quarter less powder than a 9mm

30-40 her projectile

19 ounce unloaded

Add a quarter pound when loaded

[Big Red Badger]

They Were Efficient!