>Beretta (the Italian weapons manufacturer) is 250 years older than the United States of AmericaWow
>>65558931>500 years making gun>Their gun still shittyWtf wrong /k/?
>>65558935>best semi auto shotgun>best DA/SAs>their AR-18 clone might be good if it ever comes to the US
>>65558967BasedI prefer HK pistols but Beretta makes great ones. Also the 1301 is peak.
>In the Duchy of Venice for 271 years>Part of France or Austria until the late 1860s>ERAVAMO ITALIANI!
>>65559069Venetians are just Jewish Italians and I doubt they considered themselves French or Austrian at any point. Especially since Austria hadn't even been discovered yet
>>65558931What's even more impressive is they're still owned and operated by the same family.
>>65558931Been in America since the Mayflower.
>>65559083Jews wish they had the power of Venetians
>>65559249Dafuq autoshuffle is happening here?
>>65559277>Pope wanted to gank Venice>Called up a party to do so>Someone accidentally invited France >Now France is in Italy and doesn't want to leave>Time to go with the classic Italian strategy of switching sides>Turns out Venice knows this strat as well>Also England joined because fuck France and Scotland joined because fuck England >Somehow Venice ended up on the winning side despite this whole thing targeting them in the first place
>>65558931It wasn't founded then, that is just the earliest surviving contract.
>>65559249>>65559338I miss medieval politics so much man.
>>65559760Be the change you want to see in the world.
>>65559338>lmao fuck the Venetians let's get 'em boys>lmao fuck the pope let's get 'em boys>lmao fuck the French let's get 'em boys>lmao fuck the English let's get 'em boysAnd thus Europe went to war
>>65559789>>65559249SOVL...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNzX5UbbO7I
>>65559789What in the fuck…
>>65559789
>>65559953The most crazy part is US backing socialist/atheists regime despite anti-leftist views
>>65559991US foreign support has always been more Machiavellian than ideological, like how Pol Pot was such an insane retard that we backed them to spite the other commies.
>>65558935>fpwpMy ccw is a beretta. Luv it
>>65559249They should make an anime series out of that
>>65559277It's like having a really retarded autobalancing matchmaker algorithm, which rebalances the teams *during* a match.
>>65559789Unless you can provide a link I'm like 99% sure that that's a shoop of the page for the Nigerian Civil War.>>65559976"Supported by" is so vague it's meaningless; "support" could be anything from using the nominal belligerent to wage a proxy war or it could be giving a speech supporting them at the UN.
>>65560090haha, yeah, who'd ever do something like that>You are now on BLU!>the teams have been auto-balanced
>>65558935>>65559105Borderline. The factory and "real business" is 20th century, they have revised their "founding date" several times. If the Springfield Arsenal was still operative it would have been older. it's an incredibly common thing in Italy, just find some 16th century doc with your name on it and you're suddenly five centuries of tradition for marketing purposes. It's just how it is.>>65559083Venetians are a breed apart, they were a city-state and considered pretty much everyone else expendable. But nowadays they're kind of extinct (50k "real" inhabitants are left in the city, everyone else is tourist and browns working for the tourist industry). A genocide in slow motion.
>>65560254It's real, check the page history and go to June 2022.
>>65558931you do realize that you can just save the actual full size image instead of just taking a screenshot of the shitter post, right?
>>65560284>1777>olderAnon that the 18th century.
>>65560349Anon, he's arguing that Beretta didn't *really* start until the 20th century, and therefore something from the 18th century is older. How much you want to count the Italian family business as continuous operations is up to you.
>>65559105And what family is that?
500 years ago they were already selling canons so probably even older
>>65560284So you deny a guy named Beretta was supplying barrels to the Venetian Arsenal in the 1500s?
>>65563550I deny that that has any meaningful connection to the beretta of today. If some guy named john keltec was making hand gonnes for the swedish military in 1300, that wouldn't make kel tec a 700+ year old company either
>>65563601>I deny that that has any meaningful connection to the beretta of todayBeretta is the same company, in continuous operation, owned by the same family for 500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta
>>65563622>wikpedia's source: The Baltimore Sun
>>65559994Pol Pot being supported was a combination of getting back at Vietnam, realpolitik, and atheists like Chomsky and Dawkins thinking that he would somehow make Wakanda real by spreading enlightenment values to SEA.
>>65563630Just go back to browing the Palmetto State store.
>>65563667>gets btfo so he resorts to name callingjej, like poetry
>>65563633>supporting the most evil commies of all time to epically own chomskydo you really think the US government would be stupid and petty enough to... actually yeah fair enough
>>65563678>uses Reddit-tier bullshit instead of arguing against the pointkek, predictable
>>65563731Link me an actual real reliable source that has definitive proof of an unbroken familial ownership from Bartolomeo Beretta to Pietro Gussalli Beretta and I'll admit defeatYou made the claim, substantiate it
>>65559789>Vatican City(Alleged)
>>65563748>Link me an actual real reliable source that has definitive proof of an unbroken familial ownership from Bartolomeo Beretta to Pietro Gussalli Beretta and I'll admit defeatBest I can do is the company website where they make the claim that Beretta has been in continuous operation under the same family for 500 years. Until the early 1900s they mostly made long arms and cannon barrels. The company has always been based in the same town. https://www.beretta.com/en-us/companyI'll add this folding snaphance pistol by Beretta from the 1600s as evidence.
>>65560284This anon knows. It's entirely possible that the current Beretta's happen to be descendants of the Beretta from 500 years ago, but there's just no proof at all and claiming their company has been in business for 500 years is inaccurate.
>>65559994Now if only people learned this also applies to Israel.
If I had to guess 'owned by the same family' =/= 'the same family has been in charge at the top.' Anything from technically junior partners calling the shots to boards of directors and other executives. Probably has a decent roster of single women cousins, sisters, and nieces to marry into if a suitable rich investor wants legitimacy as well. I can easily see the Beretta FAMILY being the on-paper owner of the factory for 500 years if that includes the usual corporate shenanigans around it.