I doubt it has been shot except if it was factory tested. I bought it second hand without a box, without the factory plastic grips, but with factory walnut grips and the round alan style grip screws. I've always assumed it's a commercial model. Sharing some variations seen on my own M9. As long as the serial number on the frame has not been altered, the M9 prefix and seven numerical number will show if the frame started life as a government pistol or a commercial M9 Special Edition pistol. One could acquire US government barrels, hammers, slides and locking blocks and place them on an M9 special edition frame. Both commercial and military pistols with Beretta magazines will be marked either “PB CAL 9 PARA MADE IN ITALY" or "PB CAL 9 PARA MADE IN U.S.A.”īeretta has made sure that they, the government and law enforcement can tell the difference between actual government guns and the commercial pistols they sell. The US government magazines will be marked “ASSY9346413-6590” on the right side. The magazines shipped with the M9 Special Edition pistol are commercial Beretta magazines. The early M9 Special Edition and current production M9 commercial pistols will have a prefix of M9 plus a seven numerical serial number. Additionally, on the frame six or seven numerical serial numbers are on the government pistols. The US government pistol will have a different part number and CAGE code. The difference is the right grip panel includes the part number and CAGE code, but the left grip panel of the commercial pistol comes without part numbers. The marks on the left side of the frame under the grip are correct for both pistols. The fourth slide was from the early limited release and the bottom is the standard production commercial M9 (J92M9AOM) pistol This early commercial version had a “PM” mark but the later production never did. Prior to the release of the J92M9AOM, there was a special run of M9 commemorative pistols which came with a Bianchi holster, magazine pouch and web belt (third slide). All government slides must have this to indicate the pistol slide has been submitted to a proof cartridge and passed a magnetic particle inspection.
Notice the top three slides have a “PM” laser etched in front of the part number. The real identifying marks are on the left. By looking at the right side alone it is difficult to determine. The top two M9 slides are US government production slides. But when you know what you are looking at, you can see there are very simple subtle differences which will differentiate one from the other.
To the untrained eye, it would appear so. The pistol was touted as being marked the same way as the US government pistols. In the early 2000’s, Beretta introduced their M9 Special Edition pistol.
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