Pocket WW2 Bring Backs

[Outpost75]

I have accumulated several WW2 Berettas and like them alot. Sturdy and accurate. Here are mine. Please show us yours.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Pocket guns to us, holster guns to them. Very nice.

 

[65-2x2]

I have a couple of Beretta 34s and I am fond of them, as I am of most Berettas. Mine don't have any apparent connection with the war, and were recently imported. I believe that the accepted wisdom is that they are post-war Italian police surplus pistols. Of course, the importer's heads would explode if they gave us the background on the imports.

 

[LVSteve]

I would call the little Spanish Ruby pistols a more typical "pocket bringback". They come in .25 and .32 and in various configurations of barrel length and capacity. The markings, and sometimes lack them, are also intriguing.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

The first Beretta 34 I ever saw came directly from Italy.
Brought back by my Cousins' Uncle.

 

[Outpost75]

I have a couple of Beretta 34s and I am fond of them, as I am of most Berettas. Mine don't have any apparent connection with the war, and were recently imported. I believe that the accepted wisdom is that they are post-war Italian police surplus pistols. Of course, the importer's heads would explode if they gave us the background on the imports.

My retired Carabinieri contact in Italy says the 1934 and 1935 remained in production into the 1970s. Both are still popular among private security services and smaller municipal departments. When deployed on a civil affairs mission in Africa in the 1980s his personnel were armed with the 1934 because their Belgian UN handlers felt the 92 appeared "too agressive."

 

[THE PILGRIM]

As I have posted - My Buddy Gene brought home a new in the box Walther PP.
They marched through a German Warehouse and GIs were opening crates and passing out boxed guns.
Including holster, 2 mags and I think a bore brush.