New Pistol...well new for me anyway Beretta 92FS DAO

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GaryED50

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bought it used from a local place after moving to Georgia from the anti-gun crazy California. Cost $449 and is in near new condition. bore is clean and bright all functions are smooth. Reason I'm posting is the experience was so strange for me I went in picked out what I wanted filled out the same paper work but walked out with the pistol the same day..WOW

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Gary
 
Looks to be in very nice shape, and you got a good price for it being in that condition. Congrats, and enjoy your new freedoms.
 
That was a good price on a quality weapon, congrats. Also welcome to the land of the free, this is the way it should be. Congrats on you taking charge of your freedom.
 
I was thinking the same thing. I had never seen a DAO Beretta with a thumb safety. Someone has put an slide from a 92FS on a 92D frame.


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Have you actually tried this to be sure it is DAO? Maybe it is a normal 92 FS, which is double/single with a decocker.
 
That gun is certainly not stock. It's either a 92fs slide on a 92D frame, or somebody swapped out the spurred hammer for a spurless one. Only way to tell is by seeing if the hammer stays back when you rack the slide while the safety is off and by seeing if the safety will decock the weapon. If it is a DAO gun and the safety does work then you have an uncommon gun.

But not "good uncommon". The dealer wasn't honest with you. I'm sure the gun works fine but you weren't sold a true 92D.
 
The Italian guns do not have a serial number on the frame, the slide, and the barrel, right?

German guns certainly do, as do the Glocks from Austria and the US. Which makes my Glock 21 with 3 different serial numbers a very obvious parts gun :D

But that can't help the OP with his M92.

Gary, good on you for escaping California. Now please let us know as you discover more about your particular 92FS since we Beretta lovers can never learn enough about them.

Bart Noir
 
Been doing some research after reading the replies. I had never seen a 92D apparently they look like this
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I tried the hammer on mine and it will not cock for a single action shot and the safety does disable the trigger. Looks like it is a FS with a D hammer
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Gary
 
So when you rack the slide with the safety off the hammer stays down?

If so, you have a 92D frame with a 92FS slide. Not such a bad thing if you don't ever want to fire in single action, yet you like a manual safety.

But either the gunshop employee had no idea what he took in trade(and he should have) or he was dishonest with you.
 
I believe that in the old Massad Ayoob book on Beretta pistols, he mentioned DAO 92's with slide safeties...I don't recall if the department that used them spec'ed them that way, or converted existing pistol.
 
What did the Beretta website say?
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Here's the reply from the Beretta website



Serial Number: BER*******
Model: PO9219FD
Product Description: 92DS-P STD/W SAFETY/DAO, 2-10 RD MAGS
Approximate Manufacture Date: 1990
Parts Listing: Parts
Owners Manual: Manual
Product Brochure or Literature: Brochure
Choke System: NOT APPLICABLE
Barrel: Call Beretta
Stock:
 
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So when you rack the slide with the safety off the hammer stays down?

If so, you have a 92D frame with a 92FS slide. Not such a bad thing if you don't ever want to fire in single action, yet you like a manual safety.

But either the gunshop employee had no idea what he took in trade(and he should have) or he was dishonest with you.
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Yep the hammer Stays down when you rack the slide with the safety off

Gary
 
You should post that over on berettaforum. Those guys would love seeing it, and maybe they can tell you more about it.
 
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