Western Arms Beretta M1934

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Beretta 92, Beretta M 1951, Beretta 92g-Sd/96g-Sd, Beretta Px4 Storm, Beretta 3032 Tomcat, Beretta 8000, Beretta, Beretta 92 Models, Beretta 90two, Beretta M 1934, Beretta 418, Beretta Cheetah, Beretta M 1935, Beretta 950 Jetfire, Beretta 21 Bobcat, Beretta 9000, Beretta 93r, Beretta U22 Neos, List of Beretta Mini Pistols. Excerpt: Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian manufacturer of firearms . Its firearms are used worldwide by civilians, police , and armies. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. History Beretta is one of the world's oldest corporations , and it has been owned by the same family for some five hundred years. The Beretta company was established in 1526, when gunsmith Maestro Bartolomeo Beretta of Gardone Val Trompia (Brescia , Lombardy , Italy) was paid 296 ducats in payment for 185 arquebus barrels by the Arsenal of Venice . The bills of sale for the order of those firearms are in the firm's archives. In 1918, the Beretta Model 1918 was the second submachine gun the Italian army fielded. Beretta manufactured rifles and pistols for the Italian military until the 1943 Armistice between Italy and the Allied forces during World War II . With the Wehrmacht's control of northern Italy, the Germans seized Beretta and continued producing arms until the 1945 German surrender in Italy. In that time, the exterior finish of the weapons was much inferior to both the pre-war and mid-war weapons, but their operation remained excellent. The last shipment of Type I rifles left Venice for Japan in a U-boat in 1942. After World War II, Beretta was actively involved in repairing the American M1 Garands given to Italy by the U.S. Beretta modified the M1 into the Beretta BM-59 rifle, which is similar to the M14 battle rifle ; armourers consider... Less