All the editorials, reviews, or carefully crafted letters in the world aren’t going to change the fact that as these words are put to paper, the predominant sidearm of the US Military is the M9 Beretta pistol. So what is the point why revisit the Beretta M9? Because, like it or not, at the moment there are literally tens of thousands of M9 pistols in the hands of our troops around the globe. Before we move one sentence further into this review let me make it clear, I’m not going to re-fight that war. 45ACP versus 9mm, and the M1911A1 versus the M9. Gallons of ink and reams of paper were sacrificed during the debate over. I was a young US Marine when this changeover took place and I still remember the noise that went on in the ranks and in the firearms world in general.
Not only did we change caliber (a subject that is still open for debate), we adopted a completely different operating system with a double-action/single-action (DA/SA) design.
A little more than two decades ago the United States military, and by that I mean the actual men and women serving in it, underwent a big change in their lives with the adoption of a new service pistol.
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