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However, the weight of the evidence indicates that the pivotal approval and official adoption came in 1985. There would be many subsequent tests, all of which verified the selection of the Beretta as having been “the right thing to do.” Suffice to say that Beretta considers 1985 to have been the official year of the U.S. adoption.

Lawsuits and trash-talking newspaper stories came into play. There were those who vilified the Beretta. In 1997, one of my editors at Publishers Development Corporation, now Firearms Marketing Group, asked me to research an article on the matter. The research was already pretty much done. I had followed the Beretta testing from the beginning. A good friend of mine, Jack Robbins, was one of the key men involved in the JSSAP project at Eglin. He had told me that the reason the Beretta had won was that it had simply outperformed everything else, and that Beretta had shown a different attitude than most of its competitors. The majority had figured they made the best gun and it would stand on its own. Beretta, more than any other player in the race, had sent its top people back and forth between the U.S.A. and Italy to ask the testers and the military in detail what they wanted and demanded, and had custom-tailored what became the 92F – and ultimately, the M9 – to those wants and needs.