Pocket WW2 Bring Backs

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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.
 
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.
 
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."
 
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.
 
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