Key Points: The Beretta M9 served the U.S. military for decades but garnered mixed reviews. Critics decried its 9mm round’s limited stopping power compared to the .45 caliber M1911 it replaced ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Beretta 92 is currently enjoying a strong resurgence in interest even as its service as our military’s sidearm enters its last lap. The Model 92FS/M9 was red hot at its adoption, featured in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.