This was my hideout back when I worked in the Dick bureau. I saw many homicides, and some suicides by .25. A hideout is a last ditch, up close and personal, contact range weapon. When someone would make fun of my Colt, my old partner would pretty much end it by saying in reference to my .25,"it'll kill ya'".
There are newer, more powerful platforms now, but I still know working coppers way younger than me that have one on their person somewhere. John