Beretta 96A1 Beretta 92A1 & 96A1 User Manual - Page 29

LOADING THE MAGAZINE WARNING: Be sure that you have the correct ammunition for your pistol. • Remove the magazine from the pistol by depressing the magazine release button (Fig. 10). The magazine should either fall free from the pistol or can be extracted manually. • Hold the magazine in one hand. With the other hand place a cartridge on the magazine follower in front of the lips at the top of the magazine. Press the cartridge down onto the follower and slide the cartridge completely under the lips until it is lodged fully inside the magazine body (Fig. 26). • Repeat process until magazine is fully loaded. Holes on the back of the magazine allow for visual counting of cartridges. CAUTION: Do not try to force more than the maximum number of rounds indicated for your particular pistol into the magazine. An overloaded magazine may not function properly. 92 A1 ! LOADING THE PISTOL AND THE FIRING CHAMBER WARNING: Always keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. Engage the manual safety, (FS models) by pushing the safetydecocking lever down all the way, so as to cover the Red Warning Dot (Fig. 6a / 6b). The red dot is visible when the manual safety is disengaged (Fig. 4). A safety lever is only fully engaged when it can travel no further into the safety "ON" position and the Red Warning Dot is completely covered. WARNING: G models have no external safety lever. The G models have a decocking lever only which, when released, returns to the ready to fire position (Fig. 5). WARNING: The manual safety is merely a mechanical device and is in no way a substitute for the Basic Safety Rules of firearm handling. WARNING: Beretta assumes no responsibility for any injury or ! ! ! ! 27