Beretta 92FS

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. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-30 AGAINST FOUR MORE BERETTA DOCUMENTS, AND THE WEIGHT IS NOW BLANK. The 2026-09-30 batch found 92FS figures in four further manufacturer documents: Beretta's 2014 beretta.com 92 FS page (captured 2014-07-25); its 2011 US catalogue (92 FS row, stock number J92F300M, PDF p. 20); its 2011 92 Series brochure (one specification column headed "92FS/M9", PDF p. 6); and the technical block on its 2019–2023 M9 page, which Beretta keys `92fsm9` and which the M9 record uses. No current 92FS page publishes specifications: the live page loads its technical sheet client-side, and the archive never captures it. LENGTH STANDS AT 217 mm. The two documents that describe the 92FS alone, the manual and the 2014 page, both give 217 mm, and all five documents give 8.5 in. Only the shared 92FS/M9 block gives 216 mm, and 8.5 in (215.9 mm) fits both figures, so this is a 1 mm metric difference under an agreed imperial figure. It is disclosed, not treated as a measurement conflict. WEIGHT IS A REAL CONFLICT, AND NOTHING BREAKS THE TIE. The manual gives 975 g / 34.4 oz "(approx.)" and the 2011 catalogue row gives 34.4 oz. The 2014 page gives 945 g / 33.3 oz, and the brochure and the M9 block give 33.3 oz (944 g in the block). The figures are about 30 g apart, in documents at the same tier. The directive's rule that a specification document governs a sales document would favour the manual, but the manual's weight cell is shared in one column with the 98 FS and the .40 S&W Model 96, and 34.4 oz is also the figure Beretta's brochure and catalogue give the 92A1/96A1 and the catalogue gives the 92FS Inox. So the manual's figure may belong to a sibling (the Rough Rider check), and the two documents that describe the 92FS alone, the 2014 page and the catalogue row, disagree with each other. When one maker's figures cannot both be true and nothing breaks the tie, neither is recorded (the HK USP Compact precedent). The August record carried 975 g / 34.4 oz from the manual; that value is removed, and all five figures are listed here instead. 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.