Is beauty skin deep only with the new Italian model?

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Yes, I am talking about the Beretta 9000s. According to the 2002 Gun Digest, "to retain the traditional open-top configuration look, Berreta engineers moved the locking lugs from the top to the bottom of the tilt-locking barrel."
While I haven't shot a 9000s yet, it really irks me that gun designers will design firearms with looks on the top of the list. I always thought brand name recognition is more effective than brand feature identification. What are your thoughts?
 
I wouldnt freak out about the placement of the lugs. As long as the lugs are strong and they work right... Placement is a small consession to maintain a tradition.
Like a BMW or Jeep grill - you know what it is. Nothing wrong with that if it keeps working.
 
Has it struck you that all the different SIG models look very much alike? All the controls are the same, and in the same places? Same with H&K and Glock?
Volvo, Coca-Cola (the bottles), Jaguar (cars in general, really) does this also. It is very common to design with both look and functionality.
Nothing you quoted suggested that keeping the Beretta look was the number one priority, or that anything was sacrificed to keep the look. There are many ways to build a gun, a lot more than you see on the commercial market. As long as a gun is being designed, then why not one that looks the way you want?
My objections to the 9000s has to do with the safety lever, which is too stiff, and the DA trigger feel.
 
While I haven't shot a 9000s yet, it really irks me that gun designers will design firearms with looks on the top of the list.
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Why?:confused: That's how your car, house/apartment and most other things start out.:rolleyes:
 
I think one of the reasons the beretta cougar 8000 series isn't as popular as it should be is because it doesn't look like most Berettas. I don't like the 9000 because it's styling is like that of a basketball shoe. I don't think polymer frames are as promising as titanium (which beretta has started to work with in the Tomcat series). I think it's important that a person like the way their gun looks because it might influence them to carry it often and practice with it often.
 
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