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The Beretta M9 officially the Pistol Semiautomatic 9mm M9 is a 9×19mm Parabellum pistol adopted by the United States Armed Forces in 1985. It is essentially a military specification Beretta 92F later known as the 92FS.The M9 won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary sidearm of the U.S. military beating many other contenders and only narrowly defeating the SIG P226 for cost reasons. It officially entered service in 1990.