The Austrian shipped guns were for the Austrian police after the war was over. We shipped them because the police were carrying mostly 32 and even some 25 caliber semis that were considered not useful for police service. So we sent them Smiths, the police were not very grateful, they dumped the quality wheelguns ASAP and took up with any old semi auto they could find-they just were not used to revolvers. The person who initially decided that they needed new guns was alleged to have been General Patton, and given his gun interest just might have been true. The same situation happened with the German police after the war was over, they just could not abide revolvers and found any old semi auto to take the place of S&W revolvers.