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What Are the Differences - M9, 92, 92F, 92FS?

Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2008 in Ask the Experts
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I have an Italian-Made Beretta Model 92FS stainless handgun that I bought about 15 years ago.

I have seen these pistols variously designated as M9, 92, 92F, 92FS, but, I do not know what the differences are in the guns. I know the M9 is the US Military designation for their variant of the gun, but again, what specifically differentiates these guns from one another.

Thanks in advance for your help!
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Morning Wolf~ Here are the basic differences..




    92- First production with a frame mounted safety..



    92F-Slide mounted safety..

    92FS-Has a slide retaining pin to prevent the slide from coming off..this was in response to some reports of a slide failure..

    M9-Military version of 92FS..

    There were some slide configuration differences between the 92 and 92F as well..Don't remember the exact changes,other than flat to contoured..
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  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    Hangfire,

    Thanx! I appreciate the information!
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You're Welcome..
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  • flyfisher363flyfisher363 Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hangfire, I know nothing about the Beretta but your answer made me want to give you an atta boy and say how lucky we are to have a site like this. Nowhere else can a person talk to such a panel of experts. Makes my next trip to a gun store where I usually get the clerk stumbling and bumbling for anything they think sounds good to me less painful since there is an alternative. Carry on....
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well,thank you flyfisher..but I don't hold a candle compared to some of the real experts here..I just try to pass on a little info acquired after many years around guns..

    BTW..Don't be too rough on those young clerks!!..That's how I started..in 1961..[8D]
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  • JefferJeffer Member Posts: 110 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey now, I was "started in and about that time" and you were working a counter then? Yikes I am young...
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