Interesting story I heard recently.
No clue if it is true, partially true or total fabrication.
Anyway here is what I was told :
"Independent for many years, Uberti was purchased and made into a subsidiary of Beretta Firearms and subsequently acquired by the Benelli company."
Beretta Holding Co., the Beretta family, owns Benelli, Franchi, Stoger, Uberti & a few other gun Cos. I believe that happened around 2010/11.
Pure conjecture...
"Once Beretta/Benelli acquired Uberti the unfinished forgings and blanks (frames/cylinders/barrels) going to USFA dried up." Which, for the Italians, business wise makes perfect sense to me,
if true. We all know (they acknowledged) that USFA and USPFA prior used a selection of Uberti parts for the majority of time it produced USFA SAAs. No question many of the smaller parts were eventually made in the USA. But one (at least I do) has to wonder if there isn't some truth to this story.
Big share of the blame has been laid on an inattentive owner for the company failure.
Possible for sure, but the party line hasn't ever really passed my smell test.
this is an always interesting read...
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,36900.0.html