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Browning or Beretta?

scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
This is an auto 380 bda but on the other side of the slide it clearly has the Beretta Stamp...did Beretta make these for Browning? and what is the Beretta equivilent, a bobcat or PUMA?
I have not noticed where one manufaturer puts their logo on a gun and sells it as another brand?

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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beretta did make the Browning 380 pistols, I think the equivalent model would be the model 84.
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  • JesseLeeJesseLee Member Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Chris8161, your are correct.
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  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
    edited November -1
    Sig sold the P220 .45ACP under the Browning label for awhile.

    Same gun, different roll marks.

    Doug
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    I kinda noticed there are some browning shotguns that look just like Berettas as well, they don't sell well as brownings, but beretta seems to command a good price still.
    I think it might be a mistake to market other manufacturers guns? I know it has been done especially by sig (they attach their name to anything) sig /sauer sig rizzini, sig benneli...
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    sig jennings....lol
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  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
    edited November -1
    It expands their marketing reach. I don't think it does any harm.

    I, for one, would much rather have a Browning marked firearm than that of another manufacturer - if for no other reason that it would increase the rarity of the weapon.

    Doug
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    It expands their marketing reach. I don't think it does any harm.

    I, for one, would much rather have a Browning marked firearm than that of another manufacturer - if for no other reason that it would increase the rarity of the weapon.

    Doug


    I get what you're saying but I only buy Brownings if they are JMB designs, HP, auto 5, BAR, lever guns.... here is the list....

    U.S. Patent 220,271 Winchester 1885 single-shot, Browning's first patent
    U.S. Patent 306,577 Winchester 1886 and Model 71 lever action rifles
    U.S. Patent 336,287 Winchester Model 1887/1901 lever action shotgun
    U.S. Patent 385,238 Winchester 1890 pump action rifle
    U.S. Patent 441,390 Winchester 1893 and 1897 pump action shotguns
    U.S. Patent 465,339 Winchester 1892 lever action rifle
    U.S. Patent 524,702 Winchester 1894 lever action rifle
    U.S. Patent 544,657 Colt-Browning Model 1895 machine gun
    U.S. Patent 549,345 Winchester 1895 lever action rifle
    U.S. Patent 580,924 Colt 1900 automatic pistol
    U.S. Patent 632,094 Winchester 1900 bolt action single shot .22 rifle
    U.S. Patent 659,507 FN/Browning Auto-5 shotgun, also Remington Model 11
    U.S. Patent 659,786 Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle
    U.S. Patent 678,937 M1917 Browning machine gun
    U.S. Patent 747,585 Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless automatic pistol
    U.S. Patent 781,765 Stevens 520 pump action shotgun
    U.S. Patent 808,003 Colt Model 1905 in .45 ACP (predecessor to the M1911)
    U.S. Patent 947,478 FN Model 1906 and Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket in .25 ACP
    U.S. Patent 984,519 Colt 1911
    U.S. Patent 1,065,341 Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle and Remington model 24
    U.S. Patent 1,143,170 Remington Model 17 and Ithaca 37 pump action shotguns
    U.S. Patent 1,276,716 Colt Woodsman
    U.S. Patent 1,293,022 Browning Automatic Rifle Model of 1918
    U.S. Patent 1,424,553 FN "Trombone" pump action .22 caliber repeater (Rare in USA)
    U.S. Patent 1,525,065 37 mm automatic cannons, M1 and M4
    U.S. Patent 1,578,638 Browning Superposed over/under shotgun
    U.S. Patent 1,618,510 FN and Browning Hi-Power pistol
    U.S. Patent 1,628,226 M2 Browning machine gun in .50 caliber
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