In the 1960s, I got my [West, then] German Schutzenschnur using a borrowed SIG P210-4, at that time a faitly standard weapon for the German Bundesgrenzschutz [border guards] with whom I was at that time attached pulling duty in the 5km *iron curtain* border zone. I'd have been quite happy to use an Army P1/P.38, having shot the things since I was ten years old, and having owned too many to count since I was twelve. And last time I was required to use/carry a 9mm Parabellum handgun, it was a steel-framed wartime P.38 in a US M3 tanker's shoulder holster that I hauled. My personal 210 was way too pretty for such rough-duty tasks....
