Selected Handgun Detail

Manufacturer
	Fabbrica D' Armi Pietro Beretta SpA More Info

About the Gun

Medium alloy-frame DAO 92 with a shortened open-top slide on a full-size double-stack grip. Bobbed hammer and no slide-mounted safety or decock lever. 3-dot sights and black plastic grips. Bruniton finish.

Production

Production ran from 1994 through 1998.

Market value

MSRP at production was around $650. Current used market value for examples in good to very good condition ranges $400–$600.

Cartridge Specifications
Cartridge:	9 mm Luger
Alias:	9 mm Parabellum
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Analysis

Beretta applied the Centurion cut—Compact L slide and barrel on a full-height 92 frame—to the DAO 92D two years after the D itself reached U.S. catalogs. The grip still takes full-size magazines, so capacity stays with the duty 92 rather than dropping to Compact L numbers. The D lockwork is unchanged: every pull is a long double-action stroke, the hammer is bobbed, and the slide has no safety lever. A lighter hammer spring kept that pull in line with the revolver-to-auto transition departments were making in the mid-1990s. The 92D Centurion left the line with the rest of the D family at the end of the 1990s. Used guns are scarcer than a full-size 92D and trade in the same band; boxed examples with extra magazines sit at the top.