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Endurance

Beretta recently made a series of special Model 92 pistols to commemorate Operation Enduring Freedom. The epoch of the Beretta 92 itself could be called Operation Enduring Reliability. Despite rumors spread by Internet commandoes to the contrary, the military armorers I’ve talked to have been virtually unanimous in their opinion that the Model 92/M9 is an extremely reliable pistol. Its endurance, in terms of breakage, seems no worse than that of the other mainstream high-capacity 9mm service pistols. It has merely gotten a lot more negative publicity for its miniscule number of failures. This is due in at least some part to competitors who were jealous that their gun didn’t win the huge U.S. government contract.

The .22 conversion unit lives up to this reputation. Before it went to the military pistol team, I lent it to my chief of police, who is a big Beretta fan. He put it on his own commercial M92 frame, and proceeded to hammer about 1,000 rounds of Remington .22LR through it. “Love the accuracy,” he reported enthusiastically, “and it didn’t jam once.” I then ran a few hundred rounds of assorted ammo through it myself.