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Article: BERETTA 90 TWO PISTOL
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- Tactical Response
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Hendon Publishing Company Sep/Oct 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The old Timex® commercials featured a wristwatch being subjected to all kinds of abuse with the resultant watch still running and the announcer intoning that it "Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin.'" The Beretta 92/M9 is the pistol version of that watch.
In the early 1980s, the U.S. military began testing pistols for a 9mm replacement to the aging 1911 .45 autos in its inventory. The Beretta Model 92 was selected as the M9. This has served our nation's forces well. Early reports of metallurgy problems in the slides have been long been corrected. And Beretta manufactured magazines have proved to be far superior to other magazines. The M92/M9 pistol operates well in hostile conditions the ...