Makes sense.
Actually, Beretta started making military contract arms in or around WWI, not WWII--the Beretta Model 1915 was a substitute standard military automatic pistol in WWI, and they began bidding for military contracts at least that early. And getting them! I'm not sure when their first contract for military rifles was, but they sold fair numbers of the Model 1918 "Syringa" semi-auto 9mm carbine to police and perhaps military right after the war, and I've seen Carcano cavalry carbines made by Beretta from the 1920s. Very hard to avoid that public trough, especially when the slopmaster was "il Duce."
