I could not find any information on what the MA stamp meant, though it seems possible it was some sort of interim inspectors mark. 32ACP would have been much more useful to the Germans, and therefore more likely to be found with German acceptance marks on it. We have also seen markings where roman and numerical figures are combined, for example XX 8 instead of the listed XXVIII for year 1972. In some cases the actual date was stamped instead of these marks, this is normally seen on older pistols. 380ACP a non-standard round for the German military. You may need to remove the barrel to read the mark.
You can perform your own serial number search here. The problem here is that the Model 1934 was chambered in. For firearms sold within the United States by Beretta USA Corp after 1988, information available is limited to make, model, caliber, and the year that the firearm was sold to a dealer or imported. It is not known how it came to India, but Godse was given the unlicensed firearm by a co-conspirator. The pistol, manufactured in 1934, was carried by an officer during Italy's invasion of Abyssinia and subsequently taken by a British officer as a war trophy. If it were made during the time of the German control of Italy, it would most likely have the Eagle over Swastika along with the Waffenamt code WaA162P assigned to Beretta-Gardone and that would be stamped somewhere on the gun. An M1934, serial number 606824, was used by Nathuram Godse in the 1948 assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. I could only find the following markings for Beretta during or prior to that time period Crown over Lion-Brescia or Gardone proofhouse for the 1934 pistol circa 1943 RA-Italian Royal Air Force RM-Royal Italian Navy SA-Italian Army inspector MR-Military inspection and MAM-Romanian Ministry of Sea and Air contract. As you already posted, the serial number range of your pistol is most likely from the period of 1943 to 1945 with the serial number range beginning with G00001 to G57486.
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