The North American Arms mini revolver has probably been around as long as I’ve been alive. When you’re younger and know everything (know nothing), you dismiss them out of hand. You believe idiots who say things like, “You shoot somebody with a .22 you’re likely to piss them off!” Nobody ever volunteers to show us how .22 LR rounds bounce off the human body of a tough guy.

Because of recent relaxation of “right” to carry laws we have large numbers of very well armed people running around the Midwest, where they hardly ever need to be armed. And city dwellers, who actually need to be armed, can’t be so legally. C’est la vie. But to the revolver at hand. These are 5 shot single action revolvers in .22 LR or .22 Magnum. Kind of an interesting little concept.

They are inexpensive (during normal times anyway) and infinitely concealable. Much much more so than say the Bond Arms “derringer”. Those 2 shot guns are literally bigger and heavier and just as expensive as a 13 round P365 or Hellcat. It makes no sense to carry one of those. But! These NAA guns are about the same mass as a Taurus PT22, a semi auto with 9 rounds. But frankly I think the NAA would be more reliable.

[Having watched a few more videos on the NAA, there is a small rod that has to removed and installed that releases the cylinder to reload. Doing that requires you to have your hand in front of the barrel when putting in a loaded cylinder. It works, but it violates Rule #1.]