Army and Marine Corps armorers who work for their services’ marksmanship training units are on top of the battlefield feedback from both fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq. They confirm that the pistols are fine. “Trust only two magazines: American Beretta mags, and Italian Beretta mags,” they told me. That basically gives you a choice of three, the third being MecGar magazines, since Italy’s MecGar has made many of the “factory” magazines for Beretta.

