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Acknowledgments

Some information has been given to me “off the record,” and therefore will not appear in this publication unless the verification comes from another source. For instance, I won’t name the executives at other gun companies who privately admitted to me that they knew damn well that Beretta had won the U.S. military contract fair and square.

Some input has been given “not for attribution.” This means a promise to the speaker that his or her identity will not be revealed. If that compromises credibility, so be it. Let the reader be the judge of the information.

I would like to thank the many executives at Beretta, past and present, who kindly shared information with me. They include Cathy Williams, PR manager extraordinaire; Gabriele de Plano, Jeff Reh, Todd Green and Brian Felter. And to the many I can’t name, you who know who you are, I am also grateful.

I would like to thank Ernest Langdon, who knows more about winning combat pistol championships with Berettas than anyone else because he has done it more than anyone else. Ernest’s work is also the gold standard for combat Beretta pistolsmithing, and his comments were invaluable to this effort.