"Thank you to every Beretta USA team member who, over the last 36 years, has proudly manufactured the M9, and especially to all our brave servicewomen and men who have carried the M9 in their service to the United States of America."īeretta has long used the M9's adoption and use by the military in its marketing. The Beretta USA team in Gallatin, Tennessee, packed and shipped the last Beretta M9 pistol for the US Armed Forces contract," said the company on social media. "Last week marked an end of an era for Beretta USA. The famed Italian gunmaker built a plant in Accokeek, Maryland to produce the pistol, then moved production to a new facility in Tennessee in 2014. The initial five-year $56.4 million contract, to produce 315,930 units for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard, ended up running more than three decades, greatly surpassing those numbers. Army as the M9 in early 1984 to replace stocks of the M1911A1 that dated back to World War II. military contract.Ī variant of the Beretta Model 92, which was introduced in the 1970s, was adopted by the U.S. Beretta recently announced the end of an era as the final M9 pistol left the factory for bound for a U.S.
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