Can you help me identify this gun?

Someone on a 1911 forum posted these pics, wanting to know what it is. The trigger guard tells me it's a Beretta. However, I'm pretty new to guns and just recently acquired my first Beretta. I figured this would be the place to ask. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, I'm Skot, a new member from Wichita, KS. Good to be here.

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Before you kick in my door, you should know, it's not there for MY protection...

It's not a Beretta of the 92 ilk(no locking block, fixed barrel), or any other Beretta 80's series for that matter of the blowback design w/ a fixed barrel of that type. The 92 series was derived from the M1922(open slide design) and the Walther P-38(locking block/open slide design) in 1951 and evolved to what we have today, never had a fixed barrel. The trigger guard looks like a later model 92FS design, but whatever that is above was never in the Beretta chain. Looks like a sad attempt at a copy; as many country's did produce offtakes of the Beretta 1951/92 design. I can't identify it, but I'm cetain at least it's not a Beretta, mama mia.

Thank you, denner. Much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by guitarsandguns

Thank you, denner. Much appreciated.

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No problem, but there are others much better in identification that should be able to help if possible.

Thoughts:
1. It's a casting, not a forging. Maybe a "non-gun"?
2. Integral barrel, neither pressed nor pinned in place. Still maybe a "non-gun." But maybe there's a steel liner? So maybe a .22 rimfire?
3. Barrel sits way up high, so recoil spring rode underneath the barrel. Thus not a Walther-PPK-style pistol. However, most probably DA/SA ("Traditional DA").
4. The missing rear half of the frame and grip would've contained the firing mechanism. Thus frame too weak to be for any reasonably potent caliber. Maybe a .22 rimfire.
5. Well, it does seem to have a serial number (top photo, on frame, just under middle of barrel). So maybe it's really a gun after all. Still maybe a .22 rimfire.
6. Maybe something Spanish? Or South American?

Looks like the frame for a Bruni Beretta 92, EKOL Firat Compact or similar 8mm/9mmPAK blank firing pistol.

Here's a photo clipped out of a video of a Bruni 92:

http://imageshack.us/a/img27/103/blankfiringm92copy.jpg

Not exact, but pretty close. As Steve has said, the missing rear section would have the firing mechanism in it.

Yep, DJ's right, it's some type of beaten up dissasembled blank firing replica.

Thanks for all the good info, Y'all.

Maybe a an older Excam import, they had some that looked like a Beretta.