Pietro Gussalli Beretta was trying last month to reach the chairman of Sturm Ruger , the American gun maker in which his company is the largest shareholder. But Gussalli Beretta says he was told the chairman, John Cosentino Jr., was on vacation. And he would be for a month. “That isn’t acceptable,” said Gussalli Beretta, who heads Beretta Holding, the 500-year-old firearms dynasty that began buying Ruger stock last May. It now owns nearly 10% of Ruger’s shares. Cosentino’s cited monthlong absence was the latest in a string of perceived snubs, missed connections and canceled meetings that have rocked the…

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