Beretta 90 Two Italian Version Manual

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SPECIFICATIONS AND
TECHNICAL DATA
Configuration Type F, G, D
Caliber 9mmx19 9mmx21 IMI .40 S&W
Magazine capacity 10, 15, 17 15 10, 11, 12
(rounds)*
Rifling Pitch 250 mm 250 mm 400 mm
Rifling R.H., 6 grooves
Operation Semiautomatic, shor t recoil of barrel 
Locking system Locked-breech, falling block
Sights Front and rear sights on the slide. Removable. 
Frame Light alloy
Slide Steel, phosphatized and Bruniton coated  
Barrel Steel, sandblasted and blued 
Internally chromium-plated
Configuration Type F...

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OPERATION
The Beretta 90-two pistol is a semiautomatic firearm using a
shor t recoil locked-breech system with falling block. 
When the pistol is fired, the recoil energy pushes the slide-barrel
assembly backward. After a shor t run of barrel-slide assembly,
the locking block falls and releases the slide letting it recoil while
the barrel stops against the frame. The slide, during its rear ward
movement, extracts and ejects the fired car tridge case, cocks
the hammer and activates the recoil spring....

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•Remove the magazine by pushing the magazine release button
(Fig. 9). 
•Retract the slide. Visually inspect the car tridge chamber to
ensure that it is empty. The chamber is empty when no
car tridge is visible when looking into the open chamber
(Fig. 10).
Releasing the slide when a magazine is not in the pistol will
automatically close the slide. Always keep your finger away from
the ejection por t. To keep the slide in the open position, without
the magazine in the pistol, fully retract the slide and...

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BARREL OBSTRUCTIONS
CHECK
Check the barrel to be sure there are no obstructions in the
chamber and bore. This is extremely impor tant because if
another car tridge is fired into an obstructed barrel, a
catastrophic failure can result. 
•Follow the field stripping operations in the following paragraph
and disassemble the pistol.
•After disassembly, look down the barrel from the muzzle (or
front end) so that you can see completely through the barrel to
make sure no obstruction exists.
•If an obstruction...

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•Pull the slide-barrel assembly with locking block, recoil spring
and spring guide for wards (Fig. 13).
•Slightly press recoil spring and spring guide (Fig. 14).
•Lift spring guide and recoil spring and extract its front par t from
the hole of the slide (Fig. 15). 
•Depress the locking block plunger (Fig 16). 
•Remove the barrel with locking block from the slide (Fig. 17).
To remove the accessory rail cover:  
Located for ward and under the barrel, the rail (Fig. 1-2/G) is
machined integral to the...

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•The recoil spring guide head (flat par t) should lodge in the
center of its groove in the locking block (Fig. 14).
•When the slide and barrel assembly are placed back on the
frame (Fig. 22), the slide/barrel assembly should be aligned
with the frame or pushed beyond the rear of it to allow the
disassembly latch to rotate and return to its original position
(with the disassembly latch lever parallel to the slide). Please
make sure that the disassembly latch lever is parallel to the
slide. If not, by...

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Do not fire old ammunition. Primers, powder, car tridge cases,
and bullets can deteriorate with time and cause damage to the
firearm, or injur y to the shooter or others.
WARNING:The extended use of +P or +P+ ammunition may
decrease component par t ser vice life expectancy. DO NOT use
sub-machine gun ammunition because the chamber pressure
may reach or exceed proof load pressure. Lead bullets have a
tendency to cause bore leading, which may dramatically increase
the discharge pressure. Be sure to...

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WARNING:Always keep your finger away from the trigger
whenever you do not intend to fire. Make sure the pistol is
unloaded. See paragraph “LOAD CHECK” .  
WARNING: LOAD THE CHAMBER ONLY WHEN READY TO FIRE.
NOTICE:The numbers in the figures refer to the photos on pages
2, 54 and 85.
LOADING THE MAGAZINE
WARNING:Be sure that you have the correct car tridges for your
pistol.
•To load the magazine, remove it from the pistol by depressing
the magazine release button. (Fig. 9).
•Hold the magazine in one...

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The firing chamber is the por tion of the barrel into which the
car tridge is fed. The firing chamber may be loaded in one of three
ways:
1. LOADING FROM MAGAZINE 
WARNING:Always engage the manual safety/hammer decocking
lever (model Type F) by completely pushing the safety lever down
all the way in order to cover the red warning dot (Fig. 6). The red
dot is visible when the manual safety is disengaged and the
firearm is ready to fire (Fig. 5). 
•Completely push the loaded magazine into the pistol...

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Keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not
intend to fire.
The model 90-two Type Dpistol is now CHAMBER LOADED WITH
HAMMER DECOCKED. This version does not have a manual
safety.
WARNING:Keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you
do not intend to fire.
CAUTION:All Beretta 90-two pistols are equipped with an
automatic safety, which prevents firing pin protrusion beyond the
breech face. This safety is overcome only by trigger pull (Fig. 26).
3. AS LONG AS THERE IS AMMUNITION IN...