Beretta 92FS

Name: Beretta 92FS
Brand: Beretta

Beretta lists the 92FS as a semi-automatic 9 mm Parabellum pistol working on short barrel recoil with a falling-block lock, an exposed hammer and a double/single-action trigger, with a 125 mm barrel, an open-top slide and a 15-round magazine.

Record / beretta-92fs

92FS

Beretta · 92 Series

Source verified

Scope note: THE ONLY RECORD SOURCED ENTIRELY FROM ARCHIVED MANUFACTURER DOCUMENTS, because Beretta's live site cannot be read: beretta.com serves an Imperva/Incapsula JavaScript challenge to every URL including robots.txt, berettausa.com redirects into it, and a complete browser User-Agent gets the same interstitial as a short one — so this is a genuine challenge rather than the header pickiness that Taurus turned out to have, and this directory does not attempt to defeat one. A TRAP WORTH KNOWING BEFORE TRUSTING ANY ARCHIVED PAGE: the Web Archive's capture of beretta.com/en-us/92fs/ is ITSELF the challenge page — 2,554 bytes of Incapsula script — so an archived URL returning HTTP 200 can be a captured interstitial rather than captured content. Check what the capture contains, not that it exists. The specifications here come from Beretta's own 92 Series user manual, captured 2014-12-22 from beretta.com's asset path, and the model's features from Beretta USA's own product listing for stock number J92F300M, captured 2012-03-09. BOTH ARE AS PUBLISHED AT CAPTURE TIME AND MAY NOT BE CURRENT; the 92FS has been in continuous production since the 1980s, but re-verify if Beretta's site ever becomes reachable. THE COLUMN MAPPING WAS VERIFIED BY COORDINATE, NOT BY READING ORDER, because the manual's technical table sets four model columns side by side and text extraction returns all seven row labels before all twenty-eight values. Headers sit at x = 586, 643, 700 and 757, and their value columns at x = 577, 634, 691 and 748 — a uniform 9 pt offset across all four — which puts the 92 FS in column one unambiguously. Two independent cross-checks agree: the fourth column, the single-stack "Type M", carries a capacity of 8, and the Compact is lighter than the Centurion, which is what their frames predict. This is the Glock manual lesson applied to a second brand. THE CAPACITY CELL IS NOT A SINGLE NUMBER: Beretta groups the 92 FS, 98 FS and 96 in one column and prints "15-10 (96)", meaning 15 rounds for the 9 mm models and 10 for the .40 S&W Model 96. This record takes 15; the 2012 listing separately says 92-family magazines run from 10 to 20 rounds in 9 mm, which describes the accessory range rather than what the pistol ships with. TWO MANUFACTURER SOURCES DISAGREE ON THE OPERATING SYSTEM, AND THE LOOSER ONE LOSES: the manual states "OPERATION: Semi-automatic, short recoil of barrel" with "LOCKING SYSTEM: Falling block", and its prose repeats that the series functions "on the short barrel recoil principle and using a falling block locking system"; the 2012 marketing listing calls it "a short recoil, delayed blowback system", which is not a coherent single classification — a pistol is not both recoil-operated and blowback. The manual governs and the listing's wording is disclosed. All three action axes come from that one manual page, which makes this the first record where a single source publishes every one: "HAMMER: Exposed hammer" gives the ignition, "ACTION: Double and single action" gives the trigger action, and the operation row gives the operating system. Note what this record does NOT do: Beretta publishes no trigger pull anywhere in the manual, so the DA/SA trigger-pull pair the directive queued the 92FS to exercise is untouched here — the CZ Shadow 2 had already exercised it. Manufacturer size class and directory frame class are both unset. Beretta publishes no size label for the base 92FS; its table distinguishes the Compact, Centurion and Type M by model name, and concluding "full-size" from the existence of a Compact would be classifying a pistol by inference, which the G44 and RXM records forbid. Warranty is unrecorded: the manual mentions only an exclusion — it "does not cover the use of reloaded and/or hand loaded ammunition" — and never states the terms, while Beretta's warranty page sits behind the challenge. Omitting is the Ruger handling; asserting a policy from an exclusion clause would be worse. Year introduced is unrecorded: the listing invokes the 1984 US Army competition and the M9 designation, which date the M9 contract award rather than the 92FS's own introduction, and a model named in a competition is not a model launched by it. Slide finish is unrecorded, and the reason is attribution rather than absence: the manual attributes Bruniton coating specifically to the REAR SIGHT and says the frame is anodized grey, while the 2012 listing describes Bruniton as the pistol's non-reflective black finish generally — recording either under the other's footnote would misattribute it. Beretta publishes both unit systems, so nothing on this record is converted. Separate listings under the base-model rule: the 92FS Inox, Compact, Centurion, Compact Type M, 92A1, 92X, the De Luxe, Centennial and Fusion editions, and the military M9. No Beretta extractor was written and none should be: there is no fetchable Beretta HTML to extract, so the path is the Web Archive plus execution/extract_pdf_text.py, and a brand extractor that cannot reach its brand would be dead code. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: a 155 mm / 6.1 in sight radius, right-hand rifling with 6 grooves at a 250 mm / 9.8 in pitch, a chrome-lined barrel with a recessed target crown, and a light-alloy anodized frame.

Reference fields

Manufacturer	Beretta^[1]
Manufacturer series	92 Series
Firearm category	Handgun^[1]
Chambering	9x19mm Parabellum^[1]
Manufacturer chambering	9 mm Parabellum^[1]
Generation	Not yet verified
Directory frame class	Not yet verified
Manufacturer listing	Listed by Beretta USA as stock number J92F300M (read via Web Archive; the live site serves a bot challenge)^[1]
Year introduced	Not yet verified
Manufacturer action label	Double and single action^[1]
Ignition	Hammer-fired^[1]
Trigger action	Double-action / single-action^[1]
Operating system	Recoil-operated^[1]
Overall dimensions	217 × 38 × 137 mm / 8.5 × 1.5 × 5.4 in (height: magazine state not stated by Beretta)^[1]
Barrel length	125 mm / 4.9 in^[1]
Weight (unloaded)	975 g / 34.4 oz (unloaded and approximate, per Beretta's "(approx.)" qualifier; magazine state not stated)^[1]
Magazine capacity	Standard: 15; no optional capacities listed by the source^[1]
Trigger pull	Not yet verified
Slide finish	Not yet verified
Controls	Ambidextrous manual safety that also decocks, lowering a cocked hammer and separating the firing pin from it; automatic firing pin safety; blade front sight integral with the slide and a notched-bar rear sight dovetailed to the slide^[1]
Warranty	Not yet verified
MSRP	Not recorded

Verification boundary: Published technical data are rounded, may not reflect manufacturing tolerances, and may change without notice. MSRP is not recorded: most cited product pages do publish a price, but it changes without notice and independently of the specification, so this directory has no field for it and the row stays blank rather than carrying a figure that would silently go stale.

Evidence tiers backing this record: Manufacturer. Unmarked values come from manufacturer documentation; any value drawn from a lower tier is labeled inline with that tier. Where two sources disagreed, the higher tier was recorded and the disagreement noted.

Sources

[1]
Beretta 92 Series User Manual — Technical Features and Data (p. 5, the 92 FS / 98 FS / 96 column)Manufacturer Manufacturer owner's manual (PDF) · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-12 · Captured 2014-12-22 from http://www.beretta.com/assets/12/29/Beretta_92_Series_User_Manual.pdf
[2]
Beretta 92 FS (Made in USA), stock number J92F300M — Beretta USA product listing (cited for the US catalogue entry and the "short recoil, delayed blowback" wording this record does not follow)Manufacturer Manufacturer product page (retired site) · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-12 · Captured 2012-03-09 from http://www.berettausa.com/products/92fs-9mm-3dot-plastic-2-15rd-use-js92f300m-