I still had the old pictures.
1970's Interarms Luger's grip panel was hold in place by a pin mounted on the pistol grip frame. For collector never shoots the gun, that's not a problem. But this design was wrong, the pin hole on the grip panel is too close to the edge of the internal routing, so hole on wood is very fragile and could easily break in range. When the hole is broken on wood, the pin could not hold the panel in place anymore and the panel moves, operator will notice it's not easy to remove empty magazine due to the moving path of the magazine release latch is blocked.
Sometimes, I wondered this: say, Mauser engineers are professionals, why didn't they see the obvious issue like this when they made this change... but engineering design is engineering design, mistake did happen from time to time.
As mentioned in the post, putting a wide rubber band on the grip could prevent that from happening in range. That band also disables the grip safety. One stone kills two birds.
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