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The Beretta conversion seamlessly duplicates the functions of the standard 92 and 96 series pistols.

When a gun is that popular, a market develops for conversion kits that will allow training with inexpensive .22 Long Rifle rimfire ammunition. It happened long ago with the 1911. It happened with such exotic auto pistols as the SIG P-210, and HK’s M4 and P7 .380 pistols. It’s happening right now with the GLOCK and Beretta, courtesy of Jonathan Arthur Ciener.

And Beretta is finally on board with a .22 conversion unit of their own.

While it appears on their website, Beretta does not actively advertise their neat little .22 conversion unit. This is a shame. It may be true that if you invent a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door, but first the world needs to know that you have a better mousetrap.

I first learned of this unit from a National Guard pistol team that I’ve had some small input in training. They asked me what I thought of it compared to Jonathan Arthur Ciener’s unit. I told them I was familiar with the Ciener conversion kit and thought very highly of it. My only criticism was that it was a “slick-side.” To keep manufacturing costs down and make the unit affordable. Ciener did not fit it with a safety/decock lever. This required lowering the hammer by hand, as on the very first Beretta 92 and its early Taurus clone way back when.