Ya it does, A lot of the gun is contained in the slide.
Gunbuyer.com has Centennials for 1399.99
That sounds like a lot of but appears to actually be a bargain price.
Steel framed, heavy brigadier style slide, SAO, Frame safety.
http://www.beretta.com/en-us/92-fs-centennial/
But see this is where Beretta pisses me off.. THEY KNOW streel frame safety 92's are desirable.. but they only break it out for limit run guns.
Centennial, Combat, Stock, Steel-I, Billennium (I think the stock/combat has Aluminum frames though)
I can't really afford any of those, some of them go for 1k's
And If I did buy a Centennial I'd probably not wanna shoot it or carry it :/
I guess that's why I tend to shoot and carry my Taurus (frame safety) and the Beretta just gets fondled, stays home and is rarely shot.
I wish Beretta would just put into production a frame safety 92