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Slide markings help track the Model 92’s evolution in America. Beretta’s U.S. corporate base was in New York when this 92F was imported from Italy …

… while Beretta U.S.A, had been established in Maryland by the time the sun shone on this 92F …

… and this contemporary 92FS was proudly “made in U.S.A.”

The 92FS with slide catch device was designated the M10 pistol by the military. However, in all these years, not a single military person who works with these guns has called one an M10 within my hearing. Without exception, with slide catch or without it, FS or F style, the soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who carry them call these guns “M9s”. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear, did it really make a sound? If a name is changed and no one uses the new name, was the thing in question really re-named?

The entire, every-viewpoint-represented story of the giant cluster-coitus that was the test for the new 9mm U.S. military pistol has yet to be written. Very thorough accounts exist thus far, however, in the writings of Matthews and Wilson, cited earlier, and in Gangarosa’s work. Suffice to say that after a long string of tests, lawsuits, and exchanged allegations, the Beretta Model 92 won virtually all of the tests. In the very last, it finished neck and neck with SIG-Sauer, and very slightly underbid the manufacturers of the SIG P226. Because it had been understood that the military would adopt the winner of the test, and because there were then so many tests over several years, various historical accounts differ as to the year that the Beretta Model 92 was actually adopted as U.S. Service Pistol, M9.