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According to the informations provided me by UGO MUFFOLINI (the fine folk webmaster of WWW.BERETTAWEB.COM), the BERETTA M9 DOLPHIN semiauto combat handgun is not an "original" Beretta product, but a custom modification by a small USA manufacturer. Mr. Muffolini told me to have seen it in a SHOT SHOW, some years ago (he remembers in New Orleans... is it possible?), and to have tried to acquire it, but it fires the .9x19-Parabellum round, so he would not be able to do so (ok, at least... I suspect mr. Muffolini to be a BERETTA employee, so maybe he would have been able to get it in order to add it to the BERETTA COLLECTION, placed in the BERETTA headquarter, at Gardone Val Trompia); furthermore, the M9 DOLPHIN was produced in very small number. Any further information coming from you or any other co-operator is welcome. The M9 DOLPHIN is a "closed bolt" pistol (when the gun fires and the slide goes back, only the EJECTION PORT opens, not the whole barrel, as in other BERETTAs).
Picture and information courtesy of: PIERANGELO TENDAS |