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CHARLES SMITH-JONES SAYS:
The company makes a variety of affordable mass-produced guns of superb quality

Beretta is one of the best-known firearms manufacturers. It is also the oldest and one of the largest. Ever since Bartolomeo Beretta sold a batch of arquebus barrels to the Doge of Venice in 1526 it has been constantly active and remains privately owned by Bartolomeo’s descendants today, based in the northern Italian province of Brescia.

It has the dubious distinction

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