BERETTA 3032 Tomcat

This is a nice well built little pistol that feels good on hand, well balanced , great looking and fairly priced.

I owned the 3032 Covert version of this pistol and wanted to like it. The frame has a tendency to crack around the trigger assembly. My pistol's frame shattered at the range. The frame is made of light-weight metal so the only ammo that it could safely fire was 71 grain Magtech FMJ 32acp (129 Ft.Lb) and 55 grain Underwood 32acp Lehigh Xtreme Defender (110 Ft.Lb). Use of 71 grain Aguila 32acp (129 Ft.Lb) might crack the frame. A few issues: it cannot be dry-fired without a snap-cap chambered, stiff slide, firing the gun in double-action might crack the frame, frame cracks above the right-hand side of the trigger assembly and sometimes has a complete failure of the frame around the trigger assembly. If the frame cracks apart it will lock-on open with a chunk of the frame blocking the slide. If this happens send it back to Beretta for a warranty product exchange. In short; get the extended Mdf. warranty from Beretta and treat it as a disposable utility gun. When the frame cracks send it in to Beretta for a new gun. If fired in single-action it should last more than 400-500 rounds. Please keep your used ammo boxes, you can send them in with the gun if the frame cracks while under warranty.

Out of the box defectives will not cycle and or fire the other I purchased worked great! This one didn’t so now it’s back at Beretta being repaired which so far they have great customer service