{"id":6083,"date":"2016-06-22T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/22\/beretta-1915-the-first-of-the-beretta-pistols\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:29:55","slug":"beretta-1915-the-first-of-the-beretta-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/22\/beretta-1915-the-first-of-the-beretta-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Beretta 1915: the First of the Beretta Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yVvPOiHGh7o?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold at auction for $1,840 (w\/ 2 other pistols).<\/p>\n<p>The Italian military went into WWI having already adopted a semiautomatic sidearm &#8211; the Model 1910 Glisenti (and its somewhat simplified Brixia cousin). However, the 1910 Glisenti was a very complex design, and much too expensive to be practical for the needs of the global cataclysm that was the Great War. In response to a need for something cheaper, Tulio Marengoni of the Beretta company designed the Model 1915, a simple blowback handgun chambered for the 9mm Glisenti cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>Only 15,300 of the Model 1915 pistol were made, because even they proved to be a bit more than the military really needed. One of their most interesting mechanical features is a pair of manual safeties &#8211; one on the back of the frame to lock the hammer and one on the left side to block the trigger. This proved a bit redundant, and the gun overall was rather large and heavy. In 1917 a scaled-down version in .32 ACP (7.65mm) was introduced which would be produced in much larger numbers. The 1915\/17 would also omit the rather unnecessary hammer safety.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that while the 9mm Glisenti cartridge is dimensionally interchangeable with 9&#215;19 Parabellum, pistols designed for the Glisenti cartridge should *never* be used with standard 9&#215;19 ammunition, as it is nearly 50% more powerful than the Glisenti specs, and doing so will quickly cause damage (and potentially catastrophic failure).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold at auction for $1,840 (w\/ 2 other pistols). The Italian military went into WWI having already adopted a semiautomatic sidearm &#8211; the Model 1910 Glisenti (and its somewhat simplified Brixia cousin). However, the 1910 Glisenti was a very complex design, and much too expensive to be practical for the needs of the global cataclysm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/22\/beretta-1915-the-first-of-the-beretta-pistols\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beretta 1915: the First of the Beretta Pistols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6084,"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-6083","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\/6083","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=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}