OK, now on the serious side.
A simple question:
Why would a country, driven by necessity and lacking the commercial and free enterpreneurship of it's western counterpart, bother to include the bullseye logo into the grip design?
One thing I noticed (and for which I got trashed repeatedly
) is that the symbol is almost an exact copy of the ring design of the 1904 magazine button design. This design, usually referred to as the 'navy type', as the German Imperial Navy accepted their pistols with this particular magazine button design, is strikingly similar in size and number of rings.
An old world (and longtime) collector hinted that the ring design on the 1904 magazines was to identify the magazine as being a 9mm version with a stronger mainspring.
This persuaded me to formulate this simple question:
'What if the DDR copied the 1904 'rings' pattern on their grips to identify them as 9x19 para pistols?'.
Of course, some rightfully argued 'why no similar markings on other DDR made guns?'.