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The unit leader replied that they also had tested the Ciener unit and liked it, but really wanted something with a decocker/safety device as on their issue weapons. They weren’t just looking at something for cheap bulls-eye target practice, he explained. They wanted a unit that would help them fulfill their training commitment to military police, security personnel, and others for whom the M9 pistol would be a primary duty and combat tool. Since the Army and National Guard mandate on-safe carry of the holstered 9mm service pistol, this had to include a system that would allow the troops to drill on releasing the safety and on decocking the pistol during a lull in the firing action.

The unit leader told me that the Beretta conversion apparently had this feature, and asked what I could find out about it. I immediately ordered one, tested it, and got it to one of his people for testing.

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We picked up the Beretta conversion unit at the Manchester Indoor Firing Line in Manchester, New Hampshire. We were eager to, in a common figure of speech, “see what it was made of.”