GIRSAN REGARD

It’s a Turkish Riff on a Beretta 92 That Looks Like it Came Straight Off the Set of Narcos

- Tamara Keel

This review started out as a joke. We found it in the flood of press release emails that inundate the in-boxes of registered media in the run-up to the SHOT Show. In amongst the pressers touting everything from better bore cleaners, revolutionary holsters that look just like every other revolutionary holster, to USB-rechargeable duck calls and stinkier doe urine was one for an expansion of EAA’s line of Girsanautopistols.role expanding in the wake of fellow Turkish gunmaker Sarsilmaz having headed off to form its own U.S. importer under the SAR USA label, we were curious to see what they were offering.

What they were offering, in this email at least, was an expansion of the models offered under the Girsan Regard model line; the one that is, on the surface at least, a Beretta 92 copy.

Unless one is a devotee of a particular brand among the several that European American Armory keeps as captive imports, this wouldn’t necessarily cause much of an eyebrow raise before getting bulk deleted along with the rest of that morning’s batch of press releases. However, with Turkish arms manufacturer Girsan being fairly new to the EAA stable, its role expanding in the wake of fellow Turkish gunmaker Sarsilmaz having headed off to form its own U.S. importer under the SAR USA label, we were curious to see what they were offering.

What they were offering, in this email at least, was an expansion of the models offered under the Girsan Regard model line; the one that is, on the surface at least, a Beretta 92 copy.