It’s that time of year in the U.S. when the weather gets warmer and more and more people are dressing up for events.
Of course, if you’re dressing up, you’ll still want to be carrying so that you can protect yourself should someone with evil intent show up to the event that you’re attending or chaperoning (assuming that you’re chaperoning a high school prom or something similar). Going in style shouldn’t mean going defenseless, right?
So, with that in mind, it may be worth looking into what firearm would be the best choice for you to carry while wearing a tuxedo, and that’s exactly what one writer decided to do. Travis Pike writes,
The king of tuxedo guns and suit guns is James Bond. The man defines the concept. With that in mind, the gun I feel inhibits the soul of the tuxedo gun is the Walther PPK chambered for .32 ACP.
Bond famously adopted the gun after U.K. firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd explained to Ian Fleming that the character’s .25 ACP Beretta wasn’t good enough for a spy. He suggested the .32 ACP due to its “delivery like a brick through a plate glass window.”
The Walther PPK is the compact variant of the Walther PP. This little gun is flat and easy to carry. It’s all metal and uses a double-action/single-action trigger with a blowback-operated action and a single-stack magazine, so it’s not the most modern gun.
In .32 ACP, it’s one of the softest shooting firearms on the market. It barely moves between shots, and it’s easy to throw a handful of .32 caliber-sized pills accurately. It’s downright pleasant to shoot.
The .32 ACP can be a suitable defensive cartridge with proper ammo selection. You want a 71- or 73-grain full metal jacket cartridge so it can reach proper penetration. Jacketed hollow points are off the table due to penetration issues and potential rim lock problems.
Of course, you may have other favorite firearms to concealed carry while dressed up, but Pike is specifically looking into guns for carrying while wearing a tuxedo. Think chaperoning a prom, getting married, or attending an awards show like the Oscars.
Not everyone will wear a tuxedo to these events, of course, but the nice thing is that any pistol that works well for carrying while in a tux will tend to carry well while wearing a suit, too.
You can get a better look at this pistol in the video below.
What do you think? Is the Walther PPK the ideal pistol to carry in a tux, or is there another very concealable pistol that you would choose? Let us know in the comments below.
