I'm impressed by the P-3AT.
I actually got my mom to go out and shoot her new gun. She's usually somewhat difficult to motivate to go target practice, but she was psyched about her new gun. It's not the PK version (figured out that stood for parkerized) that was the other one she was looking at. She got the black version. I shot first in case it malfunctioned, made sure it was safe. Then she killed an empty gallon transmission fluid jug. It's so short it's hard to shoot real accurately, and the hammer not clicking into position is hard to get used to. I like the way it shoots though, and a friend of mine has the same gun. He said because of the low mass, you have to stiffen up your grip for the last couple shots in the clip. Something about the gun moving back and absorbing all the inertia of the slide. The guy at the gunshop backed up this theory. So, if you hold it limp handed, you might have feeding problems. I can't imagine holding that bitty .380 limp handed though, it might jump out at you! Anyways, it functioned flawlessly for 4 mags. Don't worry about hijacking the thread, I kinda hoped to spark a bit of discussion on the P-3AT.
Shot my XD, couldn't get mom to shoot it though. My first shot BLEW UP an iced tea jug full of water in a rather spectacular display of water spray, and plastic chunks flying all over! I wanted to see how it felt with the 10 round mag, so I shot 20 rounds. It fires perfectly, hits where I point it, and the firing pin puts a dent in the middle of the primer. Looks good to me, didn't see any strange wear marks, or any burs developing anywhere. Killed a couple more trans fluid jugs.
Took care of the rest of the permit thing. What a JOKE, safety inspection?!?! Just call it what it is, verification of the serial number, and the gun is legal. They don't check to see that the gun is safe WHAT SO EVER! She never even pulled the slide back on EITHER gun. They just want to make sure all the paperwork is in order. I dunno how the registration process came to be, but I take it they called it a safety inspection to make it sound like it wasn't so intrusive into people's privacy, and it would be easier to vote into law???