HISTORY – MILITARY GUNS MAUSER 96 “RED 9” IN 9MM Although, at its outset, the First World War was considered to be a relatively short conflict characterized by the use of highly mobile tactical units like cavalry, it was well understood by the General Staffs of the major belligerent countries that it would primarily be an “industrial” war, in which the difference would be made by the ability to equip soldiers with more rifles, more cannons, more vehicles, and more of everything. Naturally, in this logic of mass production, handguns were included, and in this sense, the German army was well aware that the production capacity of private factories and state arsenals of the standard issue firearm, the Luger P08, would not be sufficient to meet the demand, even in…
