Taurus Manufacturing got it's start in business when they bought out the Beretta factory in Brazil which was producing the Beretta M92 for military sales. I've not been able to get a M92 in my hands as there are very few in the US.
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. The pistol Beretta sells today is not the M92. The M92 was changed when submitted for the US military trials and the safety was moved from the frame to the slide and the pistol became the M92F. Later modified to keep the slide in the pistol and becaue the M92FS. There are more models as well.
The Taurus M92 pistol has the standard North American magazine release behind the trigger guard and the safety of the Beretta M92. I personally feel the Taurus is the better system, although I own a Beretta M92FS as a personal service pistol. Pushing the safety down to fire is a very natural motion. Flicking it up makes it difficult to get off safe, a plus with nervous soldiers.
The Walther P38/P1 pistol has this safety and it's only benefit is the firing pin can be taken out of the system for complete safety, frame safeties only block something.
Of there's no reason even a slide mounted safety has to be moved up to fire, the Soviet Makarov works the right way.
-- Chuck