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Clearly marked “22 L.R.” on the barrel, the conversion unit features a very functional ramp and an efficient magazine that delivers the cartridges on a good feed angle.

According to Beretta, the unit is compatible with any Model 92 from the S- and SB-series on up. These are the ones with the slide-mounted safety-decock levers. The very first 92, with frame-mounted manual safety and no dedicated decocking mechanism, is not compatible with this conversion unit. Neither is the Billenium, Beretta’s limited run single-action steel-frame target auto with the frame-mounted manual safety. Nor are the short frame compacts, the 92FC and the 92M. However, the unit is compatible with the Centurion (short barrel/slide assembly on full-size frame) and the Brigadier (full-size frame with reinforced heavy slide).

What is true of the 92 is true of the 96. The conversion unit will work on all .40 caliber Beretta 96 pistols of the F- and G-series, according to Beretta, including the Brigadier and the Centurion but not the compacts. Nor, of course, will it work on the more recent designs, the 8000 series or the polymer-frame 9000 series, which are different pistols entirely.