Good grief !
Sheepskins went out of fashion after the Argonauts already.
And to open a shop with guns and ammunition in Germany, you needed no master's examination by a guild, needed not even to be an approved journeyman.
The long (one and a half centuries long) political and social quest for the Großer und Kleiner Befähigungsnachweis is an important (and too rarely consciously realized and borne in mind) part of Germany's economic history, but I will not reiterate it here. Igor Karklinsh, the great historian and august master, has sketched out, what four generations of German gunwriters were unable to do. It were, ultimately - who else?! - the Nazis who crashed open the gates, and set new demands. If I shall name one name in this context, it is Robert Hübner; who died, a broken and mournful man over his achievements, in the terrorizing Allied firestorm that incinerated his house and workshop in formerly grand-ducal Darmstadt.
Carcano
