I feel compelled to vent my disdain for Beretta the corporation moreso than the pistol. I would ditch the pistol just for the fact the Beretta the company doesn't seem to stand behind their products the way other manufacturers of service pistols seem to do. I have heard customer service horror stories, from rude service to the policy that Beretta considers the life of its pistols to be 10,000 rounds for the barrel itself and 30,000 rounds for the entire weapon system. Of course, if any lead or a reload went through the gun, forget about getting any service. True, Beretta pistols are second to none, I think, in reliability and they're one of few pistols well-suited to the installation of a suppressor without any additional recoil regulating device. I have never owned a Beretta pistol (for the aforementioned reasons)though if the company decided to stand behind its products, maybe I would someday. My primary experience has been repairing them, wherein the most common defects are caused by human error of some sort; taking off the grips and losing a grip screw washer (which will in turn cause the grip screw to protrude into the frame if screwed all the way in and hang up on your magazine) or losing one of those pesky
springs (usually the slide lock or trigger bar spring).
I own a Glock 19, by the way, and have no complaints about the ugly gun so far. There's no Glock infatuation here, it's just a gun that can take the abuse I'd rather not have my other ones go through.