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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).
I remember to have spotted somewhere on the web,
VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO, a picture of this gun
with a 25 rounds magazine in (as the BERETTA M93-R's
one). Maybe that one was just an airsoft copy, because
it was from a japanese website, but, as the airsoft
replicas exactly reproduce the original pieces of
weaponry, is it possible that the M9 DOLPHIN was
a select-fire "Machinepistol"? Picture
and information courtesy of: PIERANGELO TENDAS |
