My Storm was purchased new, when they were first released, had a four digit serial number (at or around the 1200 mark). Put the factory sling on it when I got it home and shouldered it. The tension on the sling was enough to twist the factory mount, which was steel on plastic, causing it to fail. I also had issues with the retractible light rail failing. Both issues occured within the first 30 minutes of having it home, without every sending a round down range. As far as the speculation about tampering with the firing mechanism, the only "customization" I performed was to load up some magazines and try to run them thru the gun. The bolt ended up coming halfway out of the ejection port when it fired out of battery. To the credit of Beretta, I was not injured, and I was issued a full refund immediately.In my opinion, it is a very poorly executed design. I do like AR's, but it certainly is not the end all be all...

I have not hear of any common problems with Storms. And, as stated, on mine you can not get the hammer to drop until the bolt is fully closed. Of course, its a machine and any machine can fail. There is a built in safety that prevents the trigger from releasing the hammer until the bolt is fully closed.

There are a lot of CX-4 owners who love their rifles and have put thousands of rounds through them. They are made of high quality parts. Good steel, nicely machined bolt and a chrome lined barrel. Sorry you had problems, some days the bear bits you in the butt. They gave you your money back...you moved on. The rest of us have enjoyed years from our Storms. Its hard to us to say much bad about them.

BTW, as I look around my house most of the things I have purchased the past few years and love....if I read all the posts on the internet, I wouldn't have bought a one of them! As most know, we never hear about the good ones, just the complaints from the few people who had bad luck.

I had a Storm for awhile, the rifle never appealed to me. My personal preference is the AR. My new Colt had to go back to the factory out of the box for light primer strikes, but since I got it back its been 100% and is my favorite fun gun. I just like the AR platform, I'm sure because of familiarity.

That being said, I did not have a single problem with the Beretta. It boils down to personal preference.

In true Arfcom fashion Id have to say"Buy Both!!"

How is that??

Just had the class 3 shop I use get the same letter regarding threading a storm. Seems you can thread for a suppressor. I might just do one of mine shortly.

This is counter to what I had seen. I looked into getting the storm because I wanted to thread a 45. Now looks like maybe I can. Great info.

If I could find 45acp magazines over ten rounds I would buy one first thing in the morning.

I can understand if you owned a Glock you would like to have a carbine that used your magazines. BUT, some of us don't own Glocks. We own Berettas. And if you are Beretta who's magazines do you build your rifle to use?

Beretta made the CX-4 to be easily adaptable to several different magazines. They can take Cougar, PX-4, or 92 series magazines. You can get mags from ten rounds up to thirty rounds for the 92 series. Not only that, since the 92 is the US military standard and produced for so long and in such large numbers there are just tons of choices for magazines and at great prices. While some think that 30 round mags are just the only ones worth having others of us don't care for those long stick things sticking out of the bottom of the rifle and getting in the way. My favorite mag for my CX-4 is a Mec-Gar 18 rounder that fits flush up inside the hand grip. Its out of the way, looks good and 18 rounds is plenty for most any shooting most of us do.

Sometimes people get all caught up in the fad or the style of the time. Others of us don't care what the latest "must have" thing is, we just go for what suits our own style and application. Somehow I have been shooting all sorts of firearms for a bit over fifty years now and have yet to have any need for anything that uses a Glock magazine...including a Glock pistol.

So, why would Beretta make their own carbine any different? Personally I have six or seven PCC's and none use Glock mags. Of all of them I like the CX-4 a lot. But I also have a Cav Arms lower with a 9mm upper and that is pretty sweet too. (It would be wonderful as an SBR). But the CX-4 is light, compact and shoots great. I accept it as it is as I can find nothing in its price range that better suits me. Oh, and my Kel-Tec Sub2k uses the same Beretta mags.

But you are allowed to love whatever you do also. I just hate to see people new to the sport who get brainwashed into the Glock Cult and miss out on all the other fine choices out there..

Glock magazines are reliable, durable, cheap, and widely available... I daresay moreso in combination than any new factory pistol magazine alternatives out there. No need for brainwashing or cults , they simply make good sense to many people. I've seen folks on this very sub-forum post that they would prefer a Glock-magged PCC even though they don't own/shoot Glock pistols at all.

That said, how sad it would be if there weren't other PCCs available for other pistol mag platforms? I have have several PCCs that use other mags (Beretta, S&W, Ruger, 1911) myself, and I'm a "Glock guy" to the core.