When I was young, my mother, who thought it unladylike to use bad language or take God’s name in vain, would use the abbreviation “GD” when my dad would have said, “God damn!” I am sure that the wanna-be cop-killer who emasculated himself must at some point have blamed that “GD Beretta.” As I was putting this book together, each chapter needed a filecode in the computer, and I used “GDBeretta” for Gun Digest Book of Modern Beretta Pistols. I confess that as deadline loomed closer and things came up that made the book’s completion more hectic, I uttered the phrase “that GD Beretta book is due”
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