Authentic Military U.S. M9 Beretta

[echo5mike]

JHkutterer,

Were you active duty or national guard? Did you take your issued weapons over with you on the chartered commercial plane? How many weapons did you carry over? Like I said, we each had 2-3 and some guys had 4 weapons that they carried over there. How easy would it have been to hide your personal M9? Think about it. On the return trip we all carried our issue weapons, some had 2. Nobody checked serial number on issue weapons on the return trip. If it looked like an M9 no one said anything. It would be hard to believe you had a different experience. It you were a later deployment maybe.

[echo5mike]

PolishMike,

Sorry, we all went through U.S. Customs with multiple weapons on our return trip. Matter of fact, on the return trip we stopped in Shannon Ireland and got plastered. All of our weapons remained on the plane with a guard. On the flight to bangor Maine the crew of the airplane asked us to stop drinking because it was against FAA rules to be drinking and have firearms on the plane. True story!

[BajaJames83]

I flew commercial.
I also didn't say it wasn't possible but you just described smuggling your personal weapon. Yeah I could of done that too. I carried a issued m9 and a m249 there.
Like I said earlier I didn't say I didn't happen just not legally.

[PolishMike]

JHkutterer,

Were you active duty or national guard? Did you take your issued weapons over with you on the chartered commercial plane? How many weapons did you carry over? Like I said, we each had 2-3 and some guys had 4 weapons that they carried over there. How easy would it have been to hide your personal M9? Think about it. On the return trip we all carried our issue weapons, some had 2. Nobody checked serial number on issue weapons on the return trip. If it looked like an M9 no one said anything. It would be hard to believe you had a different experience. It you were a later deployment maybe.

So you are saying it is fine because you didn't get caught?

Just because YOU got away with it doesn't mean its ok. It is clearly against at LEAST military orders.

[echo5mike]

PolishMike,

I agree. It was against military orders and I would have been screwed if I had been caught.

Not saying that it was right, but there were a lot og guys coming up with some incredible ideas/plans on how to bring stuff home and made it.

[echo5mike]

JHKutterer,

Agreed, it was against the rules. You just said that you could have done it as well, it was easy if you wanted to take the risk.

[freonr22]

PolishMike,

I agree. It was against military orders and I would have been screwed if I had been caught.

Not saying that it was right, but there were a lot og guys coming up with some incredible ideas/plans on how to bring stuff home and made it.

is that olive garden?

[BajaJames83]

I got ya it was tempting...
When I got to baghdad in 03 I had 2 mp5s and a couple of nice aks that I wanted to bring back but I ended up throwing them into the burn pile....
I also had a glock 17 and a nice chromed out fake berreta... But oh well

[echo5mike]

There were a lot of stuff that I was drooling over but did not want to risk it. Just wanted my personal M9. I never used it in action, I was an M240B machine gunner. The M9 was nice to walk around the FOB with and as a secondary weapon.

[SanPedroShooter]

I wonder what would have happened if you did have to use it? I suppose the army would eventually figured out it wasn't one of theirs... I carried an M9 too, but never overseas.

[Maddog5150]

Hmmmm. Op, weather or not you got away with it is one thing. Legalities of the situation are another. Heads up, the ATF monitor this site so I would suggest asking a mod to delete this thread and just say you were BSing (even if you're telling the truth) just to CYA

[Iskra]

echo5mike, were you an E5? Your story is totally reasonable to me (ROTC grad '91). E1-4's would take the risk without a second thought, I'd guess E5's and 6's would assess it for themselves, and E7's and up would probably not because of the example it would set.

And the smart 1LTs just listened to their E7's.

[Mr. Beretta]

To answer your question, if you were able to document the detailed history of the weapon by signed letterhead from the original Police agency that acquired the weapon from the military (or it's vendor) and notary stamped letters from previous owners (such as yourself) ref: the weapon being deployed into wartime theater, it would be worth more than the standard everyday 92FS.

Without the above described documentation, it's just another 92FS IMHO.

I have an authentic military U.S. M9 Beretta and am wondering how much it might be worth.

I purchased this back in the late 1990's from a collector in Huntington Beach, California. It was part of an over production of the origial contract to the military and was sold off to a police department. Once the police department retired the pistols they were sold off to collectors. It is blued and has all of the military numbers and markings.

My National Guard Unit was activated in November 2003 for service in Iraq. Because this pistol looked identical to the ones that were issued I was able to take this M9 over with me and it served as my side arm for the entire deployment (March 2004 - March 2005).

And no, I did not use it to kill anyone. I was a machine gunner and it simply served as my back up.

Thanks for any info.

Dan

[echo5mike]

Iskra,

Yes, I was an E-5 at the time. Keep listening to your E-7's!!!!

[echo5mike]

Mr. Beretta,

Unfortunately I guess it would just be considered a regular 92F with military markings. I have no documentation. I wonder if you can do a serial number search to confirm the over production and being sold to the police departments.