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After seeing cases in which the Beretta had saved their deputies’ lives in such incidents, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department made it mandatory for their thousands of armed personnel to carry their 92Fs on safe. Within just a few years of that policy change, according to that department’s veteran trainer, Harold Flynt, four more saves were documented. The North Carolina Highway Patrol has carried Beretta pistols on safe since 1983. The department progressed from the 92F 9mm to the 96F 9mm to their current Beretta Cougar Model 8357F in .357 SIG. One of their instructors told me that in 20 years of on safe carry, so many lives have been saved in gun grabs that the department has lost count. Yet LASD and NCHP have one more thing in common: No deputy or trooper in those departments has ever been hurt for failure to remember to disengage the safety on a Beretta during the draw to fire in self-defense.

That is a point that bears repeating. To say, “On safe carry saves lives” just once is to leave five words floating in the sea of a book that spans 130,000 words. It understates the huge importance of the documented information being imparted. On safe Beretta F pistols have saved many lives. While many other pistols have this feature – and many such saves have been documented with them – it is worth noting that no such pistol’s slide-mounted safety lever is easier to operate than the Beretta’s. The easier the safety catch is to operate the more likely the user is to employ it for its intended purpose.