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."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.