Beretta 1201FP
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| Manufacturer: | Beretta Beretta Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the... |
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| Barrel length: | 520 mm | |
| Overall length: | 1060 mm | |
| Magazine: | 6 (2 3/4") or 5 (3") rounds in underbarrel tube magazine | |
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| Unloaded mass: | 2.85 kg | |
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The Beretta 1201 FP is a semi-automatic
Semi-automatic firearm
A semi-automatic, or self-loading firearm is a weapon which performs all steps necessary to prepare the weapon to fire again after firing—assuming cartridges remain in the weapon's feed device or magazine...
shotgun
Shotgun
A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...
, developed in the late 1980s or early 1990s by the Italian
Italy
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arms manufacturing company Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta
Beretta
Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the...
. It was an upgrade to the preceding model, the Beretta 1200. The 1201 was manufactured in two versions, 1201F, intended for hunting
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...
and sporting
Sporting
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, and the 1201FP, intended for law enforcement
Law enforcement
Law enforcement broadly refers to any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to promote adherence to the law by discovering and punishing persons who violate the rules and norms governing that society...
duties.
The Beretta 1201FP shotgun uses the proven inertia drive operating system found on Benelli shotguns and is very reliable. Some models came with rifle
Rifle
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the...
sights and some came with ghost ring sights with a tritium "night sight" insert in the front sight.
The 1200 and 1201F and FP are no longer manufactured and the Benelli Super 90
Benelli Super 90
Benelli Super 90 is a line of Benelli semi-automatic shotguns. They are:*Benelli M1*Benelli M2*Benelli M3*Benelli M4...
is the current version.