Hollywood Guns: The Beretta 92

If one handgun defined the action movie of the 1980s and ’90s, it’s the Beretta 92. With its distinctive open-top slide and sleek Italian styling, it looked like nothing else on screen — and it was everywhere.

Bruce Willis’s John McClane carried a Beretta 92F through Die Hard. Mel Gibson’s Martin Riggs ran one in Lethal Weapon. And as the U.S. military’s M9 service pistol, it appeared in countless war and police films for decades.

That open-slide design isn’t just for looks — it makes the Beretta 92 one of the most recognizable pistols in film history. Audiences learned to spot it instantly.

Of course, no action hero is ever shown fighting to press that last round into a stiff magazine. They just slap in a fresh mag and keep going.

For the rest of us, the Beretta 92 fits the ADCO Super Thumb ST1 — making its double-stack 9mm magazines faster and more comfortable to load. Available for $6.95.

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