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On the prize table was a contract for probably half a million guns. It was the most lucrative single prospect that anyone still living could remember ever having been placed in front of the handgun industry. It triggered one of the bitterest battles that the industry had ever experienced. In the end, some of the guns fell by the wayside, and some evolved of necessity into better pistols than they had been. The Beretta Model 92 was among the latter.

Stainless (“Inox”) construction was a natural evolution for the 92FS, here demonstrated by gun dealer and small arms expert Jim McLoud.

The Fight To Succeed The 1911

The story of the military testing is long and complicated. The most detailed and informative accounts appear in Wilson’s book, and in the United States Marine Corps Diary 1990 in a segment by Matthew T. Robinson, the associate editor of the Marine Corps Gazette. That account was called “The Long Road to Change: Procurement of the Beretta 9mm M9 Service Pistol,” and Larry Wilson dubbed it “the most succinct and straightforward piece” explaining the complex testing procedure and its various “back-stories.” The following is a necessarily brief synopsis.