Source: ATF P 5300.11 · Curios or Relics List · Jan 1972 – Apr 20253,573 entries · 4 sections
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Beretta Model 1918/30 carbine

Section III: removed from the NFA, curio or relic under the GCA

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11 · APRIL 2025 EDITION · SECTION III · VERBATIM · PDF P. 23 ↗

Beretta, Model 1918/1930, semiautomatic carbine, cal. 9mm, having a barrel length of 12.5" and a magazine capacity of 25 rounds.

What this entry requires

  • ATF REQUIRESConfigured as the ATF wording states: “having a barrel length of 12.5" and a magazine capacity of 25 rounds”
  • INFOATF states no date; production was about 1930–1945.

Editorial facts · Our research

Country
Italy
Manufacturer
Pietro Beretta
Type
Rifle
Action
Semi-auto
Caliber
9mm
Made
c. 1930–1945production; ATF states no date³
Service
Commercial
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Source

Official wording
ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section III · PDF p. 23 ↗ · ATF original ↗
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Editorial facts
Confidence: Medium · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
References
  1. forgottenweapons.com ↗, general: semiauto-only carbine between the Model 1918 SMG and the Model 38; sold primarily to security and police forces; 9mm Glisenti; 25-round magazines
  2. forgottenweapons.com ↗, service: police, constabulary and forestry use
  3. Wikipedia, “Beretta M1918” ↗, years (estimate: partly supports it): Variants section: "In the 1930s, the semi-automatic Mod.1918/30 model was developed"; Argentina adopted it in 1933; end year is our estimate
Fact tags
  • ATF the ATF wording states it.
  • REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
  • ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
  • NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
Source checked
20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
Corrections
3 changes · see below

Correction history

  1. Data-trust reviewEditorial confidence: Low → Medium. Re-rated after supporting references were added or re-checked.
  2. Data-trust reviewSearch aliases updated. Added glisenti police
  3. Data-trust reviewService: Military → Commercial. Forgotten Weapons: sold primarily to security and police forces, not armies

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Historical context

Beretta M1918 (base model shown for Beretta Model 1918/30 carbine)
Shown: a Beretta Model 1918 submachine gun, not the semiautomatic Model 1918/30 carbine.

Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Beretta-model-1918-submachine-gun.jpg” by Lexanglopaddy, CC BY-SA 3.0. Retrieved October 2026.

Summary: Wikipedia, “Beretta M1918”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.

FROM WIKIPEDIA

The Moschetto Automatico Revelli-Beretta Mod. 1915 was a self-loading carbine that entered service in 1918 with the Regio Esercito. Designed as a semi-automatic carbine, the weapon came with an overhead inserted magazine, an unconventional design based on the simplicity of allowing a spent round to be replaced using assistance from gravity. The gun was made from half of a Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun.