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.

The -A3 is sold commercially with three seventeen ... citing a history of reliability and design problems with the original M9. Beretta officials protested that the new pistol solved many of ...

The Italian-made Beretta M92 was classified the M9 handgun and served with the U.S ... Reagan-era ancestor—which of course it is. The A3 is finished in a three-tone black, coyote, and flat ...

Beretta’s M9 pistol served proudly as the official sidearm for our troops for nearly three decades. It exhibited a remarkable ability to evolve as the Global War Against Terrorism required it to ...

Photo by Rob Curtis, Staff 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 ...

The M9 is a lightweight, semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Beretta and designed to replace the M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol and .38 caliber revolvers. The Beretta M9 has redundant automatic ...

The pistol is kept on display at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va. Prior to the adoption of the Beretta M9, a U.S. military contract truly did seem an impossible goal for a foreign ...

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.

The M9 Beretta earned the nickname of “world defender” because of its back-to-back contracts that kept it in circulation from 1995 to 2017. Then, in 2017, SIG Sauer won the Department of ...