Beretta USA history

Pietro Antonio Beretta was now working for the company, and in 1815 he began traveling throughout Italy in order to sell more gun barrels.

After Pietro’s death in 1850, his son, Giuseppe took over and encouraged the company to start making complete guns.

By 1860, Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta was making 300 firearms a year.

Beretta again began making military firearms after the unification of Italy in 1861.

By 1880, the production grew to 8,000 firearms a year.

In the early 1900's, Fratelli Beretta expanded to a manufacturing enterprise with a stable business structure that has thrived through two World Wars and The Great Depression.

At the time of Giuseppe Beretta's death in 1903, the company had 130 employees and a single 10,000-square-foot factory.

In any case this is one of the most affordable and finest semi automatic pistols ever made, like a shorter version of the Model 92FS. Which was carried by many military personnel for years, and out performed I’m sorry to say the “1911 COLT 45” side arm which I’m a big fan of.

Beretta begins manufacturing handguns for the officers of the Royal Army of Italy, signs contract to supply 1000 machine gun barrels FIAT, model 1914

He’s also believed to have designed the world’s first submachine gun, the Beretta Model 1918.

1934 pistols MAB – Beretta Automatic moschet

They continued supplying the Italian military with weaponry right up until German troops took over the plant in 1943.

A few years later, in 1956, Italian trap shooter Galliano Rossini won a gold medal at the Melbourne Olympic Games using a Beretta shotgun – a first for the company…not the last.

In March of that year, it bought an 86 percent share in Aldo Uberti & Co., s.r.l., a $15 million a year replica gunmaking business founded in 1959.

In 1975, Beretta introduced the Model 92 in 9mm.

The 80 Series of Pistols were introduced in 1976 and was known as the 80-Series At some point in the 80’s The Series was then called the Cheetah.

Beretta United StatesA. was founded in 1977, when Beretta acquired a bankrupt gun factory near Washington, D.C., that had previously had a contract to service its products.

He had been managing director since 1981.

Beretta won a hard-fought contract to replace the Colt .45 in 1985.

In 1987, Beretta sued General Motors after the latter brand introduced the Chevrolet Beretta car.

The brand name was extended with permission to the Beretta Sport line of high-end clothing and accessories introduced in 1988.

Ugo Gussalli Beretta became president of the company in 1993 after the death of his uncle Giuseppe.

In 1995, they opened their first gallery in New York.

In 1998, just five years after Ugo Gussalli Beretta became the company’s president, Beretta was unsuccessfully sued by the family of a 15-year-old boy who accidentally killed himself while playing with a Beretta pistol.

By 2000, it would occupy 75,000 square feet of space in Gardone and another 50,000 square feet on other sites in Italy, Spain, and the United States (Maryland).

With a corporate umbrella company in place to oversee its subsidiaries, Beretta Holding next acquired Sako Ltd., a Finnish maker of hunting and sports rifles, from Metso Corporation in January 2001.

In 2004, Beretta released an updated version of the Cougar in the form of the Beretta Px4 Storm.

The Beretta ARX160 is a modular assault rifle that Beretta released in 2008.

That includes the largest military handgun contract the United States has made post-World War II, with an agreement in 2009 to supply 450,000 92FS pistols.

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