My Great Grandpa's gun

[colt45er]

Well I was in Indiana for a few days and so I headed up to Anderson to visit with my grandparents.

They are getting ready to move into a Condo so they have been going through all their belongings and have started to give/gift/throw out all the stuff that they no longer are going to keep. Over the past couple of years I have inherited my grandpa's single shot .22 and my other great grandpa's single shot 12 ga.

Anyways, this trip my grandpa told me to follow him into the other room. I do and he pulls this out of the safe and hands it to me.

Don't know too much about it other than it was my grandpa's fathers Beretta 32Auto and it is date stamped 1947.

He said it has been in the safe untouched for 20 or 30 years. I dropped the mag out and it is loaded, but none in the chamber. It also had a partial box of ammo.

Looks like a 50 count box of fmj's were at one point $5.00.

Anyone have any insight on these or shot one? I'm going to take it to a shop and have it check out and be sure its safe to fire. If so, I am going to shoot the rounds and are in the mag to test first hand the mag spring story.

 

[mjblazor]

Wow! that is a cool gift. Thank you Grandpa!

 

[1022]

5.22 for a box of ammo and it is not 22lr

 

[BlueEagle]

I want to hear the results of this mag test, definitely; a 20 or 30 year old loaded magazine....definitely want to hear how that goes.

 

[Mad Anthony Wayne]

Sweet!

 

[Indysioux]

Darn! That's an awesome gift. Thanks for the sharing the pics. I'm a big Beretta fan

 

[Dewidmt]

Looks to be a Beretta Model 1935.....the Italians used them as their standard sidearm in WWII. Lots of G.I.'s came back with one of these in their duffel bag! Excellent pistol, even though it is a bit large for a .32, by today's standards.

 

[AutoMovt]

Very nice!

 

[GunSlinger]

What a treasure! Great pistol! Congrats to you and Grandpa!

 

[357 Terms]

Looks in pretty good shape, considering it sat in that holster for that long.

 

[Birds Away]

Awesome gun. Love to hear how it goes the first time at the range.

 

[elpenguin0717]

sweet gift! lucky you!

 

[Knight 1]

Those gifts from Gramps are great, mine left me a colt 1903 32 that is almost unfired. While it's worth allot, it's worth even more to me. Congrats.

 

[Stringtown]

That is an awesome gift. It's will be something you can pass on to your children.

 

[actaeon277]

So have you asked him to go shooting with you. Sometimes, people like to spend TIME with family. More valuable than money.

 

[kjf40]

Awesome pistol, thanks for sharing.

I'm also interested to hear about the mag spring.
And how it shoots

 

[alluwant]

That is awesome nice piece of history and a nice piece of family history. Congrats

 

[dsol]

Beautiful. Nice piece of history and great gift to pass on to your children.

And to think, there are jerkwads in our government that would rather mandate things like this melted down than passed on to our children.