Beretta Series 70, shorter legal barrel?

K-Roc

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Any rumors or info on if these handguns will ever ship with a shorter barrel? Not the 6 inch one? I do remember reading that eventually they would ship with a shorter barrel, did I imagine that lol?

I like the looks of this firearm, but lets be honest... it looks weird with the barrel that comes with it in Canada, it could be 2 inches shorter basically... OR has anyone shortened the barrel themselves to the shortest legal length allowed, how hard is that exactly? I have access to a shop, so in theory I could do it.
 
I thought BBB said they had to ship the 4.2" barrels back due to a manufacturing problem. I could be wrong though. I wanted one of these too.

As far as shortening the barrel, the hard part would be re-mounting the front sight. Cutting and crowning the barrel wouldn't be too difficult. You would have to mount the sight carefully since it has to slide through the notch in the front of the slide.
 
S and J appears to be out of stock of the barrels... gun looks so much better without that huge barrel lol... although the price was very expensive. $200 extra for the shorter barrel? Wow...
 
Would you mig weld the front sight back on or some sort of adhesive? JB weld? It might look like crap lol, I could prob do it, but not sure how it would look... will search and see if I can find an example. Thanks!
 
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