Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "SMG Comparison: Bernardelli VB vs Beretta Model 4" video.

  1.  @sthenzel  The Beretta was made to shoot the super-hot m38 cartridge (around 20% hotter than the standard 9X19), so to shoot standard Parabellum rounds is pure relax for the action.
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  2.  @grc70  there were plenty of MAB38 magazines around, and they were pretty well made too (double stack, bouble feed).
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  3. But the Beretta doesn't need to be disassembled to be field-stripped.
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  4. Yeah. Standard MAB38 mags. They were very good (double feed) and there was plenty of them.
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  5.  @_car5323  That same recoil spring would seem an overkill in a pistol firing the same caliber round.
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  6. Really the MAB38 was made to shoot the super-hot M38 cartridge, that's around 20% more powerful than a standard service 9X19 Parabellum.
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  7.  @wilsonj4705  The Glisenti was no more service cartridge in 1938 (there were still some Glisenti 1910 pistol used by officers, but it wasn't a problem to supply the few cartridges they needed with WWI leftovers) and the standard 9X19 Parabellum had never been adopted. The only 9x19 cartridge in the Italian inventory in WWII was the M38. Simply around the middle '30s Italians decided to separate the service handgun round (it'll be the .380ACP) from the service SMG round (it'll be the M38), so that they could have inexpensive blowback handguns and powerful SMGs. Germans nominally had the 9mm Parabellum for both handguns and SMGs, but in reality issued much more Walther PP and PPk, Mauser HSc and Sauer 38H in .32 ACP than Walther P38 (other than still fielding Mauser C96 in 7.63×25 Mauser).
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