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Pen points to the spot where the rare slide breakages were known to occur. To put minds at ease …

… Beretta introduced what they dubbed the Brigadier slide, seen here in stainless and with added steel in that area.

F-series/M9 pistols are carried on safe by many private citizens and police officers, and by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as standard doctrine.

F-series/M9s are carried off safe by many cops, civilians, and the USAF.

Beretta was prescient as to the role pistols would play in the short-term future of military conflict. Wilson quotes the brochures that originally accompanied the Model 951 pistols in the early 1950s. “The experience of the recent (Korean) war proved that an individual defense weapon of high ballistic qualities is still required, the more so against the dangers of enemy raids and partisan warfare met with (by) the supply and contact service, and which demands a ready reaction based upon efficient weapons of outstanding offensive power. Modern warfare, in fact, created the phenomena of (guerrilla) warfare which takes place at the flanks of the operational army units, and the use of pistols and light machine guns, despite the development of new weapons possessing a very high destructive power, cannot yet be considered as obsolete even in modern theatres of war.” ⁽³⁾