Quoted: I'm looking for a pocket gun myself, and the two that keep coming up are the Keltec P3AT and the NAA .380.
The Keltec is lighter and cheaper, the NAA seems better made, but that is just my first impression. Either of these should work better than a derringer.
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The NAA .380 was so bad that I had to send it back at least three times. Finally when it broke again, I took it back and got a refund. It's heavy. It kicks badly. The slide can bite you badly. All this is a shame since it's such a nice concept. I just don't think you can reliably put anyting bigger than a .32 into such a small package. I hear the Rohrbaugh's which are 9mm, and very, very expensive, are nothing but trouble too.
Keltec 380 is just as bad, if not worse than the NAA. Both companies dealt fairly with me, and allowed me to return them to the dealer, I think they took them back. They dealer issued me a store credit then. I just bought a SW442 and called it quits with small guns.
The Keltec 32 can be good or bad. They usually need some work out of the box, and a lot of rounds to break them in. But, they are a very nice package, in my opinion, for what they are. If the sight of the gun doesn't stop the fight, I think you'd have to pour all eight rounds into a person to stop them. Or the 10 round mag is even nicer, but again, there's a lot of trouble with those mags.
This is all personal experience, and knowledge of personal friends having similar troubles.