Military Trials Beretta 34 - Can You Make it More Walther? 

“We’ve made guns for 500 years... but of course petty functionaries tell us how to properly design firearms”

It's "yellow" because of white balance. Using a white sheet of paper is a great way to calibrate the camera.

Ian: wather pp Me, a mature individual: (snickers uncontrollably)

The reason why Ian is not afraid of running out of weapons to showcase: Fireplace Guy.

"Excuse me, I'd like to shoot you but I have no idea what my safeties are doing!"

Funny how the front of the gun has the "Beretta face".

“Clearly the result of some military officers who got all starry-eyed...” That, Ian, is called the “Idea fairy”

That fireplace needs a fire. When shooting from this location Ian could do the wing chair and smoking jacket with a fez! Perhaps for Christmas?

I want to see Ian making more impressions of Italian designers losing their shit when asked for something ludicrous. Work those hands, man!

About 1973, I was living in Hartford, Ct. We had a lot of trouble with a really bad guy, and were being called to testify against him. Lots of threats by him and his friends, and he kept getting out on bail. I left my Colt 1917 with my wife, and bought a 1934 Beretta for $60. Fit right in my work pants pocket. When he went to jail, finally, I sold it for $60. I had never fired it. Nice little piece.

The 1934/1935 is a gun that seems silly or inadequate, with its 32acp/380 calibre and small size....until you handle one. Then you understand what the appeal was.

My grandfather was a tank commander had one of these while in the Western Desert campaign with the 8th Army. He captured it from an Italian officer and it stayed with him until he was wounded just after fighting at Monte Cassino.

My great grandpa was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter and he took a similar pistol from a captured Italian captain. My grandpa inherited the pistol and we still have it to this day, it's also still functional and works great.

Not that anyone will care, but I inherited a Beretta 1935 from my grandfather. Still works like a charm, and I've never had an FTF or FTE with it. Sometimes, when I'm missing him especially badly, I carry it as my daily carry. Just saying.

Italian Military can be a bit strange, sometimes. In the same years G. Marconi presented to the top brass a radio localizing and ranging device. "It can detect something you can't see giving you direction and distance....it's unuseful!!!!. " said the generals. G. Marconi went to UK, with his Marconi Corporation helped building Chain Home (radar early warning for air raids that helped win the Battle of Britain) and in Cape Matapan battle Royal Navy slaughtered Italian Navy...using radar. The same device they refused some years earlier. A bit strange, I said....

My Grandfather brought one home he liberated from an Italian officer in WW2. Sadly it was stolen in the 70's

"We like your gun a lot, but could you just make it be this _other_ gun?" "Well, sir, you see, there are a number of reasons why-" "Great! We expect it by next week."

I just got my grail gun (a Beretta 92A1) and am now learning as much as I possibly can about the history of autoloading Beretta pistols lol

I have a 34. Really sweet shooter. It was nickel plated at some point of its life, but the finish has worn away at spots including revealing the "RE" mark. It has started to weak strike though. Otherwise, its like a baby 1911-92 in .380.

I had question, i saw one of these at my local pawnshop this morning,very nice little gun, they guy pulled it out of the display case and let me see it,very nice weight and very tight little gun. What i dont understand is.... it had a tag on it and the tag said it was a 1934 but the tag also said it was a 32 ACP, now we were busy with other things and i didn't check it out thoroughly, if the 34 was made as a 380 corto (per Wikipedia) and the 35 model was made in 32 ACP how can this one i saw this morning be a 32 if its a 34? (lol,sounds like a tongue twister). Maybe the guy putting the gun in inventory made a mistake and its actually a 380? reason i say this is because when he hand it it to me he said "yeah this is a pretty nice gun, 380 i believe) but then i corrected him and said ," i think is a 32 and he said oh ok" funny thing is neither of us checked,now if i was buying the thing i would have checked for sure.

The true ancestor to the M9. I've always had an soft spot for baretta pistols and firearms. Just beautiful, rugged and simplistic designs.

0:04 was the this section Perhaps Filmed in Mexico? You know how the light waves somehow just react differently in Mexico

Beretta 34 might be my favourite WW2 handgun! It still looks very modern!

This looks to me to be less of a failing of the slide safety and more a dumb redesign of the frame safety. I'd almost go so far as to say that they may have intentionally done it that way to, in effect, 'sabotage' that particular variant in a bid to convince the military not to go with the slide safety. Granted, two manual safeties is overly redundant even by my standards, but realistically, the problem really lies in that added tab on the frame safety.

1000 views in 5 mins... proof that you do a fantastic job, Ian.

My Dad brought an M34 Beretta home from WWII. He got it from an Italian prisoner. My Dad showed me how to use it safely and we used to go shooting with it when I was a teenager. I loved shooting it! Loved the way it felt in my hand. He had the leather holster, too! My Dad sold it however much to my disappointment. Great memories! I'd love to find another one.

Me with my "orc like palms": OI WAT IZ DAT? A MINISLUGGA FOR ANTS?!

That aesthetically resembles the M9/92 FS quite a bit.

The screen is yellow because Gun Jesus' halo is illuminating the gun with grace.

Friend of mine has one, it's a neat little pistol, he's more a collector than a shooter and as far as I know it has not been fired in ages if at all.

The RE marked on the gun stand for "Regio Esercito" = Royal army

Always loved this gun, designed directly to specs but never took off

"Saying it doesn't work like that" to an Italian goverment official would be a poor choice in life during that time frame. They would put professors in jail for not wearing hats with feathers and other ornaments during state events. They did after all send the commander of the navy to a death camp because of birth/religion the offical reason was failure to keep accurate time in naval vessels.

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Hey, neat. I just wrote a little article about Tullio Marengoni and my Beretta 1935 the other day. Do you know if the Models '34 and '35 shared their serial number range? (I'm guessing not, since my '35 is 1941/XIX production with serial 529,000 and some, and I assume they were making more than 4,800 of them a year.)

Very cool history on these! Makes me appreciate my model 948 even more. :)

Keep the Walther safety/decocker. Lose the original safety.

"It doesn't work like that!" But...it *does* work like that.😕

I bet that one of these days Ian will be sitting in front of that fireplace reviewing Mr Scaramanga's golden gun!!!

Camera problems? You don't need to make lame excuses, likely it's jaundice from a scotch binge with The Bloke.

Fireplace guy is quite the collector! Or maybe it's Ian's 2nd home and he just doesn't want us to know ;)

Hey Ian, did you ever hear about the Rolls-Royce Experimental Machine Gun .50? And have you ever seen it?

I'm just mad about Saffron she's just mad about me, they call me mellow yellow, that's right.

Ah... Was there old chem at beginning of the roll?. You should change your lab to genuine technicolor.

It always ends up badly when people with zero understanding of firearms construction try to force the designer to go some stupid way... The designers of CZ vz. 52 pistol could tell you a lot about how they ruined the gun :)

My uncle took a 1934 Beretta from an Italian officer prisoner or war. When my uncle went to work in Canada in 1970, he left the pistol with me. I have since bought a number of them. American Rifleman July 1985 has a great article on them.

Yeah, that's a weird safetys combo.

Clearly the video has jaundice

I think Fireplace Guy and I sop at the same stores. He does have more money than I.

Hate slide mounted safeties with a passion. 34's are really cool. I once traded a Lorcin .380 for a 1934 Beretta at the time I did not know 9mm Corto is .380 ACP but I knew I had a deal.

This fireplace sits across from an equally famous black leather couch...

One of the first pistols i shot as a kid. My grandfather taught me on that gun when i was 7

When I did my military service in 1980 in the italian Air Force, this was my pistol. We called it the "la 9 corta" The 9 short because it was 9x16.

The fireplace collection delivers another unicorn! Don't know why I put the exclamation point there. It's not surprising.

Fireplace Jesus needs a rocking chair, a smoke pipe(you know the fancy one?), and either a jacket or vest.

Very informative, thanks. The 1934, .35 pistols are sure neat little pistols that show off Italian style of design.

Ur video had a touch of patina for a bit. Kinda appropriate for this channel I'd say.

Leave it to the military to overcomplec something simple!

ALL The Safeties!! Safest Pistol ever!!

I'm not mature enough to hear "we really like that whalter pp" and not laugh a little

My late father, who served in the Wehrmacht (1943/44), had wanted to be issued with a Beretta but was given a Radom instead.

Carry my 1934 always! Love that Ian for his amazing videos!

Maybe this was foreshadowing that the germans would be bad news for the italians...

Is there any gun that the "Fireplace Collector" doesn't have?

I've always had a thing for the 1934 and 1935 Berettas. Back in the early 1970s as a very young lad I had a toy gun that (other than it's blue color and plastic "stopper gun" construction) was a dead ringer for the '35. Like a lot of my toy guns from that time it was very realistic and I had NO idea where it came from (could have been my older brother's, could have arrived in a trade, might have been a "battlefield pickup" that I found whilst playing at some abandoned property or other) ... I just knew I really liked it. Fast forward MANY years and I was the temporary caretaker for one (a 1935 in .32). Of course, if I was going to be responsible for it, I had to ensure it's firing condition ... and ... um ... be sure it MAINTAINED it's firing ability while in my care (I shot it a lot, LOL ... with permission, of course). Great video! (Edited ... I mixed up model numbers ... what a NOOB mistake)

Absolutely NOT-TRUE: the request by Italian Army it was about for the most SIMPLE/ROBUST/RELIABLE/ECONOMICAL/SMALL-PISTOL, for self-defense of military personnel:......

Could the yellowing be the white balance?

It is nice of Bernie Sanders to finance a gun channel! :-) (Google Ad before video, not related to FW)

0:10 Looks like the emergency lights in a submarine.

7:00 say 1935 but stamped mark says 1956 what

Ooh yes, the famous Beretta 34 Clutchmatic! Makes me like my Walther PPs even more! Yes i love PPs, i that a problem?!

Heh, he said pp.

Forgotten Weapons - Beretta Arquebus circa 1526🙏 Love all your videos!

It is one of those timeless gorgeous, sexy , must have small pistols, that today's pistol designers don't understand, and if made today it would have a picatinny rail, a 50 round magazine, and made in .500 Casull

Its so yellow because Gun Jesus here gives off a natural heavenly glow. Its a characteristic of being Jesus. lmfao

Ah, I was looking for this video because this is the pistol I main in Sniper Elite. Thanks, YT algorithm!

Can You Make it More YELLOW?

I'm a mechanical CAD designer/engineer for a small machine shop and I have a $1 "swear jar" on my desk. Only it's not a "swear jar", it's a "can't-you-just jar" for idiot ideas just like this.

It’s probably yellow because the white balance on the camera was off.

Any one know were I can look up Hungarian ww2 guns I got a ( p mod 37 Kal 7.65 its stamped jhv 43 )

I'm sorry, but can we talk about that chimney which lookes absolteley wrong?!

your camera took a while to white balance. probably from the logo on your shirt.

These stories are the best part of the channel.

When you first turned the camera on ..did you accidentally face it at the lights?

Walther big pp

Fireplaceguy strikes again

Can it "BE" anymore Walther?

Doesn’t the 92fs’ have slide mounted safeties?? I guess slide mounted won..

Love how very italian Beretta is. Make a demand, get an argument, some logic, probably some sweet talking over wine and lunch, inevitably get what you want before you realize they were right and change your mind.

"Now you are ready to fire". Last words before a pissed-off Ethiopian has already speared you.

Awwww little itty bitty M9

This whole story is very Italian.

The yellow was probably just white balance doing it's weird thing.

You could use the disassembly lever to deactivate it when surrendering haha!

You should have mentioned that it's a Bond gun :^)

6:32 you said something like "Rehjhio eherhiho" instead of "Regio Esercito"

IAN YOU ARE A MORE VALUABLE RESOURCE THAN ANY MUSEUM AND WE ALL LOVE YOU SO MUCH

Another treat from fireplace collector!

Wow I own a 1937 version with RE stamped, cool

Wasn't James bond initially assigned one of these before the Walther ppk?