{"id":26023,"date":"2024-12-13T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/beretta-93r-the-best-machine-pistol\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:00:22","slug":"beretta-93r-the-best-machine-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/beretta-93r-the-best-machine-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPf5quy8_nM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>The Beretta 93R (&#8220;Raffica&#8221;) was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta 92 pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst mechanism under the right-side grip panel. It does not have a plain full-auto setting, but only semiauto and 3-round burst. To help keep the gun controllable, it has a heavier slide to reduce cyclic rate, a detachable shoulder stock, and a folding front grip to help control the muzzle. It uses extended 20-round magazines and is actually remarkably controllable (or so I am told; I have not had a chance to shoot one myself).<\/p>\n<p>For a look at a 93R on the range, I suggest this video from James Reeves on TFBTV:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4M_1r3rHiFk<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4M_1r3rHiFk<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Many thanks to the Royal Armouries for allowing me to film and disassemble this very famous machine pistol! The NFC collection there &#8211; perhaps the best military small arms collection in Western Europe &#8211; is available by appointment to researchers:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/research\/national-firearms-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/research\/national-firearms-centre\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can browse the various Armouries collections online here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/collection\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv The Beretta 93R (&#8220;Raffica&#8221;) was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta 92 pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst mechanism under the right-side grip panel. It does not&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/beretta-93r-the-best-machine-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}