[SHOT 2026] Seecamp Goes Back In History With .25 ACP Option

Seecamp is one of the nichest of niche firearms manufacturers in the U.S.; they make tiny hideout pistols, some of the smallest autoloaders on the market until recent years (it’s been the company’s specialty since its founding as a weapons customization shop). They still make their handguns in New England, when many of the region’s firearms manufacturers have moved away for greener pastures where there’s less trouble with the state government. And now, they’re back to making a .25 ACP pistol, right back where the company started, in an age where this old-school self-defense round is mostly forgotten.

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Going their own way

In an age where everyone else makes a .380 hideout gun … Seecamp makes one too. Their LWS-series platform comes in .380, and has done so since 1999. But they also make the LWS-32, a .32 ACP variant, when almost all the rest of America’s gunmakers have abandoned this classic self-defense/concealed carry cartridge. Seecamp was long-known for its thirty-twos, but wayyyyy back in the day, when the company was founded by designer Ludwig (Louis) Wilhelm Seecamp in the early 1970s (after he retired from Mossberg), their original self-manufactured pistol was in .25 ACP. Those handguns are considered quite collectible now.

It’s not identical to the originals; the magazines won’t interchange, said Seecamp staffers. But it comes in the same stainless finish as the original, it’s still double-action only, and the $545 MSRP is a lot more affordable than the thousands an original LWS-25 can fetch on the market. It is considered a classic self-defense pistol (perhaps even a Fudd gun, if a CCW handgun can be such a thing), even if there are more powerful hideout guns on the market now that are roughly the same size, with the benefit of sights and possible larger magazine capacity. Like their other pistols, the LWS-25 has a six-round mag and no sights at all. This is a point-and-shoot-up-close gun.