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Far more important than those who’ve won pistol championships with Berettas are those who have used them to win gunfights and cheat death. They’ve used all three types, including Model F pistols both on and off safe. Let me introduce you to a few of them now.

Greg Lee serves with the Nashville Metropolitan Police. He was carrying a privately owned, department-approved 9mm Beretta, on safe, when a suspect drew a revolver and brought it up on Greg and his partner. In one smooth, practiced movement, Greg cleared his 92F from his SS-III security holster, popped off the safety, and lit up the would-be cop-killer with a stream of 124-grain Federal HydraShok bullets. The bad guy went down dead, before he could hurt either Greg or his partner. Greg proved, among other things, that a Beretta carried on safe in a security holster could be operated fast enough and reflexively enough to win a quick-draw contest for the ultimate stakes.

Stacy Lim is a member of the LAPD. She was off duty and carrying her department-issue 92F when she experienced a carjacking by gang-bangers. When she identified herself, the point man of the bad guys shot her through the chest with a .357 Magnum. The bullet tore her spleen apart, pierced her heart, and punched a massive exit wound in her back. Her 92F had already been off safe, carried that way per department edict, and she brought it up and shot him a couple of times, chased him when he ran, and shot him twice more. All four of the 115-grain Remington hollowpoints she unleashed found vital flesh. He died. Stacy survived. She is, to my knowledge, the world’s only known survivor of a .357 Magnum gunshot wound to the heart. Eight months later she returned to full patrol duty. Last I knew she still wore at her hip the trusty Beretta that had kept her assailant from finishing her off. The gun had saved her life.