A Colt for all occasions
08/25/2023
The gun enthusiast recognized it immediately, of course: The headline is wrong. Because here we don't see a Colt, but a Walter PP on the left and an Astra Cadix on the right. What has this lost on Zwischengas? About as much as it lost in auto motor und sport in 1963. Back then, someone saw the combination of glove compartments and handguns as the ideal combination for a little self-defense in between.
That's why Georg von Stavenhagen gave useful tips in issue 10 of that year on which assault buffers were suitable for cars and - even more importantly in Germany - which could be purchased without a firearms license. Five years earlier, a much more conscientious approach had been taken and eleven types of pistols and revolvers had been compared with each other. For example, how well they smash the door of a standard DKW.
In the spring of 1975, the Stuttgart-based company published another guide on the subject of roadside defense. After all, the lethal full metal jacket ammunition had already been replaced by tear gas charges. However, the weapons expert interviewed did not think much of this - and recommended the classic percussion revolver. Maybe that's why the number of traffic fatalities was so high in the seventies...
