Manufacturer: Beretta. Caliber: 9mm. Barrel Length: 4.9 in. The M9 is a lightweight, semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Beretta and designed to replace the M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol and .38 ...

The Beretta M9A3 photographed in Beretta USA's factory in Acokeek, MD, Monday, December 29, 2014. Photo by Rob Curtis, Staff They may as well call it the M9A3 Monkey Wrench.

The Army's long-time pistol supplier, Beretta, is criticizing the service for failing to communicate perceived shortcomings of the M9 sooner — a move the gun maker says would have led to ...

The M9A3 Beretta looks like a futuristic, high tech version of its Reagan-era ancestor—which of course it is. The A3 is finished in a three-tone black, coyote, and flat dark earth scheme, unlike ...

The M1911 is the OG pistol that’s been used in combat from 1911 well into the 2020s. The Beretta M9 pistol was introduced to the ranks as a replacement for the M1911 starting in 1985.

In 1985, the U.S. Army made an abrupt shift, aging fleet of World War II-era handguns for a foreign model. The Italian-made Beretta M92 was classified the M9 handgun and served with the U.S. Armed ...

Key Points – The Beretta M9 served as the US military’s standard sidearm for decades, seeing action from Desert Storm through the Global War on Terror, eliciting both strong support and criticism.

Prior to the adoption of the Beretta M9, a U.S. military contract truly did seem an impossible goal for a foreign company in 1978, the year Congress issued its directive to the Dept. of Defense ...

I'd been waiting 30 years to shoot this gun. And there it was, the Beretta M9. Four of them, actually, representing all its variations and evolutions, splayed before me in an underground shooting ...

The competition to build the U.S. Army's next service pistol is heating up -- and the Beretta M9 is back in the fight. Beretta's entry into the Modular Handgun System competition: The M9A3. Photo ...

Beretta has made an effort to provide updated M9 pistols to the U.S. armed forces. As far back as 2003, we offered the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps M9 pistol upgrades.

Watch this segment of American Rifleman Television's "I Have This Old Gun" to learn about the history and development of the Beretta 92FS handgun, which was adopted by the U.S. military in 1985 as ...