A. Uberti, Srl.

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A. Uberti, Srl. is an Italian manufacturer of replica American firearms.

Uberti produces replicas of American percussion revolvers, cartridge revolvers, single-shot, and lever-action rifles.

'''Uberti is owned by Beretta Holdings.'''

Aldo Uberti founded his company in the foothills of the Italian Alps during in 1959 to recreate the famous firearms of the past. He first made the Colt designed black powder revolvers and later moved on to Remington and Winchester designs. It was during this era that Colt ceased prodection of their famous Single action Army or Peacemaker revolvers. In 1960 Italian movie director, Sergio Leone, came to consult Aldo Uberti to find the Old West guns he needed for what would become known as “spaghetti westerns”. For a Fist Full of Dollars was the first of Leone’s gritty movie interpretations of the Old West that would change moving making forever and make Clint Eastwood a star. The movies would also promote world-wide interest in the guns of the American West.

Today A. Uberti makes the guns of the past affordable for collectors, cowboy action shooters, and civil war skirmishers. Uberti not only makes and markets their own complete firearms but produces frames, cylinders, and barrels for several other companies like Beretta (their parent company), Cimarron Arms, Taurus, Charles Daley, Navy arms. Some of these (Cimarron for example) use these parts to create finely made "collector grade" firearms.