While noodling around looking for something on the internet today, I stumbled across the American Derringer site. I hadn't checked on the company, but apparently they're still around and turning out guns*, albeit at a very low volume since they're essentially handmade by a very small operation**.
Their website is kinda interesting from an internet history perspective, too, since it's largely unchanged since the first time I saw it twenty years ago. There's no shopping cart but you can submit an order by fax.
A derringer is an increasingly anachronistic choice for a carry gun in a world in which there are six and seven shot repeaters that are lighter, more concealable, and don't require being laboriously thumb-cocked for each shot. But people rarely buy their ballistic rabbit's feet based on cold rationality.
*At least this...review, we'll call it...suggests they were still shipping guns in September of this year.
**Incidentally, this is why Bond Arms derringers are also as spendy as they are. There's a lot of touch-labor that goes into making those things.
