Luger Manufacturers

Ted, I don't know for sure, but I doubt that Mauser distroyed (perhaps used for other purposes) their Swiss machinery in 1979. Also since the Erfurt/KH/E.German machinery was around as late as 1953, that's also a possibility. As far as French assembled M06 lugers: I doubt it. Many commerical M1906 lugers don't have any signs of German proofing, so the French may have required them to go thru their proof house. I once ask a British friend, why I see so many British proofed military lugers? He replied, that to legally register a German made war trophy pistol, it had to go thru one of the British proof houses. Any comments from our British members are welcome.