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Gabriele de Plano of gunmaker Beretta showed off a new rifle - a soldier doesn’t have to carry around a ton of batteries for the rifle’s components.

Gabriele de Plano of gunmaker Beretta showed off a new rifle — a soldier doesn’t have to carry around a ton of batteries for the rifle’s components.

That $580 million contract amounts to more like $1 billion in work, Beretta’s de Plano says, when you put together the cost of research, production, accessories and disposing of old weapons, also the job of a manufacturer.

Gabriele de Plano, Beretta’s vice president of military and marketing sales, picks one up and turns it in his hands.

“All this,” de Plano says as he strolls onto the factory floor in a dark suit and eye-protection goggles, “this is because of the M9 contract.”