Selected Handgun Detail

Manufacturer
	Fabbrica D' Armi Pietro Beretta SpA More Info

About the Gun

Full-size alloy-frame DA/SA 92 with an open-top slide, a squared trigger guard, and a double-stack grip. Slide-mounted safety/decock lever, 3-dot sights, and checkered black plastic grips. Bruniton finish.

Production

Production began in 1989 and is currently ongoing.

Market value

MSRP is around $800. Current used market value for examples in good to very good condition ranges $450–$650.

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

The 92FS is the commercial pistol that followed the 92F after U.S. Navy slide-separation failures in the late 1980s. Beretta enlarged the hammer pin so that a groove in the slide would catch a broken slide before it could leave the frame. That change, together with the chrome-lined barrel, Bruniton finish, and squared guard already on the 92F, became the standing 92 pattern. The U.S. military issued the same lockwork as the M9 from 1985 into the 2010s. Civilian 92FS production has run in Italy and in the United States and remains in the current catalog as JS92F300 and related codes, even after the 92X and M9A3/M9A4 lines added rails and Vertec grips. Used examples are plentiful. Early Italian-marked guns and boxed sets sit at the top of the ordinary used range; police trade-ins fill the bottom.