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… to this on a stainless 92FS produced in 2004.
Says Beretta historian Larry Wilson, “The family tree of the Model 92 is one of the more complex within the domain of automatic pistols, with its roots in the relatively simple design of Tullio Marengoni’s Model 1915. Contrasting the two shows the sophisticated level of Beretta’s research and development team, as well as the advanced state of its manufacturing facility.” (1)
On June 29, 1915, the first patent was issued on the handgun that would be known as the Beretta Model 1915. A blowback pistol chambered for the 9mm Glisenti, then Italy’s military pistol cartridge, it had a “hammerless” look with an enclosed firing mechanism, enclosed barrel, and extremely simplified design and construction. It was followed by a series of 7.65mm and 9mm Glisenti pistols (models 1917, 1922, 1923, etc.) with partially exposed slides, leaving the barrel less and less enclosed by the slide mass. The true “open-slide look” would come with the Model of 1934, the blowback 7.65mm and 9mm Corto that would be the definitive Beretta pistol of the early 20th century, and which would remain so until the coming of the Model 92. By then, the Beretta pistol design had evolved into a burr-style outside hammer format, though the pistol was still single-action.