"This experience has caused me to opine that the PP series pistols are better guns in .32acp than .380acp. I was impressed by how smoothly the gun operated in this smaller caliber. I won't be shooting through any plate glass windows any time soom, but it's a nice addition to the "Ain't it cool?" section of my safe."
I have fired two PP series pistols in .32/7.65 - a 1938(?) PP that was lousy with WW II Waffenampts (but now belongs to a Rabbi!)
and a 1950s Manurhin PP. Truth be told, I preferred the Manurhin. It had the better trigger, by far.
The .380 variants are less comfortable, less controllable, less pleasant, and less accurate, in my hands, at least. I have never fired one made or imported after GCA '68.
The Beretta is dead gorgeous. That was a neat time in Italian design history. Do you know what that series of holes on the dust cover under the slide are for?