The 7.65 mm Steyr was intended primarily for police and military use, and police and military often required lanyards on all handguns. The lanyard loop was added to the left side of the grip by inletting the left stock and affixing the lanyard to the grip frame. Many first variant guns ...
In most service handguns the barrel moves on firing as do the sights (being mounted on the slide), requiring two major parts to realign precisely for accurate fire. In the Steyr, only the sights move – not as good an arrangement as one where the sights are fixed to the barrel, but ...