Founded in 1526, Beretta is the oldest firearms manufacturer in the world.
That’s nearly 500 years of making boomsticks. Americans might know Beretta best for the M9 pistol, adopted by the U.S. military in 1985. But you might not realize that Beretta Holding now includes not just the original Beretta but also such brands as Benelli, Chapuis, Franchi, Norma, Sako, Steiner, Stoeger, and Tikka, among others.
However, if you can believe it, we’ve never been able to get a Beretta rifle before. That’s finally been remedied, with the introduction of the brand-new BRX1 rifle.
BRX1
Beretta set a goal for itself to develop a hunting rifle that would be high-performing, mid-priced, safe, reliable, innovative, and distinctive. It had to appeal to and sell in not just the U.S. but across the world. The company homed in on a straight-pull bolt-action design — a modern repeating rifle, in their words. There aren’t a lot of straight-pull rifles on the market; Beretta’s development process took nearly eight years, and Savage actually beat them to market, releasing their straight-pull Impulse line in 2021.
It was worth the wait, though, as the BRX1 is a very interesting platform. First, besides being a smaller pond to play in, the straight-pull action has a number of benefits for a magazine-fed manually operated rifle. Requiring just two movements,
