Bernardelli B4

Vincenzo Bernard Elli, a native of Brescia Italy, manufactured guns from the year 1721 to 1997. The manufacturer, Bernardelli, seemed to be well acquainted with the idea of Italian firearms. He knew well about the Italian's well-known obsession for arms and traced his company's origin to fire arms industry. It was apparently Vincento Bernardelli, the talented engineer and business man, who gave this company the required status and action. Bernardelli prides itself on using the very latest in gun making technology and their products have featured in many prominent shooting events, including many championships around the world.

During the Second World War, his company had launched more than 50 models alone in US. They had big distributors like Stoeger. Bernardelli has, over the years, created a number of nice hand guns and pistol doubles in the medium price class range.

One creation of Bernardelli was the Bernardelli B4 model semi automatic shotgun. It was an Italian model make with a high 12 gauge. It was a box fed combat shot gun along with a pump action. It has a folding stock and a carrying handle. It was distributed in the USA by EAA, however it was soon taken off the record as a Class-3 device and was restricted by the Assault Weapons Ban Act. The fire arms like pistols, hand guns, shot guns which were similar to the design of Bernardelli B4 shotgun and the Bernardelli B4/B shotgun, or any other variants or modified versions of them were banned.

In these Regulations and conventions, "semi-automatic", in respect of a firearm, means a firearm that is outfitted with machinery that, following the release of a cartridge, by design operates to complete any part of the reloading cycle necessary to prepare for the release of the next cartridge. This was a major set back in the design of Bernardelli B4 pistols which eventually led to its ban. This is the reason why there is so little information available about the Bernardelli B4

Other than Bernardelli B4 there were several other box-fed shotguns on the market that were banned along with this model of Bernardelli B4. They were the Franchi SPAS-15, the Beretta M3P, and the Bernardelli B3. Amusingly enough, these semi-automatic weapons could be used in either the semi-auto mode or the single-shot. In single-shot, the "KA-CHINK" pantomime worked. The chief advantage these pistols had over other shotguns is that they could be reloaded in 3 actions instead of 6.

This easy and finely crafted pistol is now unfortunately not easy to get in the open market particularly in the United States, since there are restrictions on its import and manufacture. But this has not put down the wishes of many people who are mad about acquiring different pistols and handguns. Although many such kinds of banned fire arms and pistols, can be found in Italy where the origin is. So all those who are willing to try their hand on Bernardelli B4 be ready for some hunt!