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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
Sweet. I wonder if an actual original 92SB in excellent condition would be less expensive or not.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
Would have been beautiful if they left off the gaudy gold lettering on the slide.

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
Sweet. I wonder if an actual original 92SB in excellent condition would be less expensive or not.

FYI Looks like originals in great shape are about $500 LOL

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
Sweet. I wonder if an actual original 92SB in excellent condition would be less expensive or not.

FYI Looks like originals in great shape are about $500 LOL

Where??? Around $500 is the going rate for LE/mil trade-ins in Very Good condition these days.

I have an original 92SB in Excellent condition w/ box that I bought two years ago for much less than the $1526 on that repro.

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Originally posted by MacGyver:
We'll see how it goes, but IMO, this is shaping up to be a flop just like the 40th Anniversary P226. The Beretta definitely has more going for it than the SIG did though - it's actually limited-production and gets almost all of the visual features right. The 40th Anniversary P226 couldn't be a duplicate of an original 1980s P226 because there was no way to give it a folded slide. Also, SIG never disclosed how many of theirs they made, but because of that "numbered" batch, we know for sure that it was a lot more than the Beretta. There's another thing that SIG couldn't do though, that Beretta could have, but didn't. SIG couldn't make the 40th Anniversary in Germany (the factory has been shut down a while now). Beretta could have made their 50th Anniversary in Italy, but it looks like it's USA from the pictures. Nothing against USA Berettas, but this kind of a marketing exercise would benefit from having the "correct" (more "authentic") country of origin IMO. Also, for both pistols, they cost too much ($1299 for the P226 and now $1526 for the 92SB) when an "actual" one would cost a fraction ($500-$600). This is why I think Glock's similar P80 and "Gen1" reissue had more of a chance to succeed. Real original Gen1 Glocks are very expensive these days ($1500+), and the reissues were priced similar to current Glocks (~$600).

1KPerDay, the ones in your links are real SBs. They look to be a mix of both used and new-old-stock Italian police trade-ins. The seller is correct about what GF (Guardia di Finanza) means. I'd much rather have one of those than this newly-announced 50th Anniversary SB if I were interested in this model.