Magazine safety Police P08
 

Recently I came across a Police P08, which still has the magazine safety fitted and working.

There are no unit markings on the grip straps, although there is a 'P' stamped, the same 'P' stamping is also on the chamber.

On the bottom of the barrel, just below the serial number is what appears to be a Frankfurt 'G', although the frame serial suffix appears to be 'r'.

Finally the red mark for safety on the Frame is something I have not seen before.

Stay safe
Richard

See if the mag safety has been cut - a close up of it from a couple of angles could tell us (as its rare to find one intact).

the white dot and the red dot are reminiscent of a P38 - almost sure it is post war - the luger never had a red dot

the markings look like Vopo, if so, then the sear and mag safety are usually disabled / taken off

Ed

The photos appear to show a completely intact mag safety. However, the "anchor" portion of the spring in the slot on the frame looks somewhat different from any I recall. It appears to not fill the slot. Over the years, I have seen discussions on the forums about the possibility of replacing missing or clipped mag safeties with intact ones. I don't recall any confirmation that this was done but I wonder if that was a possibility here.

Ed,
Neither the sear nor the magazine safety are disabled, here are a couple of photos as requested.


Stay safe
Richard

To me the proofs look like British. Also has been reblued. Interesting anyway. Bill

Don,
Just spotted your reply, here is a photo with the grip removed.

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Richard

Bill,
This one is based in Britain, so with our draconian gun laws, it has been deactivated, hence the British deactivation proofs.

I know of at least three 'replaced' mag safeties and 2-4 original ones.

Not very common to find them intact...

I have a police conversion 1910, it has the sear safety, but not the mag safety.....Is this normal, unusual....?

Nice gun although reblued and with the Birmingham inspection mark if I'm not wrong..


Best.

Neither. It depends on the particular state and when the sear safety was added. For example, Prussian Schupo and Landjägerei apparently added both soon after the order was issued in 8/1933. However, by about 1936, the mag safeties were recognized as not being a good idea and in 1937 the Prussians ordered them removed. States that waited until 1936 or so apparently never installed the mag safeties.