How Beretta Became The World's Greatest Maker Of Fine Firearms

How Beretta Became The World's Greatest Maker Of Fine Firearms

(Beretta) Founded in Gardone Val Trompia outside Milan in 1526, Beretta, the world’s oldest firearms maker, will celebrate its 500th anniversary next year while still employing principles of gunsmithing handed down from the days of the Renaissance. A half-century since Bartolomeo Beretta built his first harquebus barrel for the Venice Arsenal, Beretta Holding recently became the world’s largest firearms company as well, earning $1.7 billion in r…