Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Q&A 53: With Matt Larosiere (FRT Trigger) and Russell Phagan (KP-15)" video.

  1. Doubtfull. The first assasination which was documented as film, was the assasination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille in 1934, twenty years after the shots in Sarajevo. When you watch in YouTube the newsreels, the security was compared to now, rather bad. The assasin could easy reach the car out of the viewing crowd, he fired a Mauser C96 in 7,63 Mauser. Against such a cartridge fired at short distance, the protection vests would not have helped. Side note: One of the ceremonial mounted officers beat the assasin down with his saber.
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  2. In those days 9 Browning kurz was seen as military cartridge, and pistols in military cartrdges AND small size had been rare. So a bulldog/ subnose revolver in double action for a .38/ 9mm revolver cartridge would have been better for a bodyguard.
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