Beretta M1951

Beretta M951 - 9x19mm

Brigadier - Egyptian licensed copy of Beretta Model 951 - 9x19mm

Specifications (1953-1980)

Type: Pistol

Caliber: 9x19mm, 7.65x22mm

Capacity: 8, 10(M1951R) round box magazine

Fire Modes: Semiautomatic, Semi/Full-Auto (M1951R)

The Beretta M951 was also referred to as the Beretta 951, Model 1951, MOD.51, Brigadier. Italian gun designer Tullio Marengoni designed the Beretta Model 1951 and was adopted by the Italian Army in the years after World War 2 to replace the underpowered Beretta Model 1931 (.380 acp). It was the precursor to the famous Beretta Model 92 series of handguns. The Version adopted by the Italian Army and Police was known as the Modello 1951. Later civilian market versions of the pistol were named the M951 or "Brigadier". Egypt also made a licensed version of the Brigadier, known as the "Helwan Brigadier".

The Beretta M951 or any of it's variations have been seen in the following:

Film

• Michel Piccoli as Inspector Ginko and various police officers and villains in Diabolik (1968)

• Criminals in Magnum Force (1973)

• Christopher Walken as Jamie Shannon in The Dogs of War (1981)

• Al Pacino as Tony Montana and a Colombian thug in Scarface (1983)

• Gangsters in The Outsider (1983)

• Jean-Pierre Malo as Schneider in The Loner (1987)

• Mathieu Kassovitz as Robert and Mossad agents in Munich (2005)

• Cate Blanchett as Philippa in Heaven (with silencer)

Television

• La Piovra (1984-2001)

• Stuart Whitman as Nick Carl in The Streets of San Francisco Season 1, Episode 16 "The Set Up"

Video Games

• The Godfather Part II (with suppressor) (2009)