Mitch,
If you use the LF's search feature and look for topics related to the luger dealers in the USA, you will get an idea of outfits folks use and have had good experiences with.
Search for :
Simpsons, FGS, Joe Salter, Checkpoint Charlies, Ralph Shattuck, Phoenix Investment Arms, Mike Morris, Mike Krause, Ken Kontos, Mid West Firearms, and others.
As you go through these search results, you will notice that a few bad deals always occur over the years even with dealers with the most stellar reputations. Look for over all trends and learn from others who post about a bad deal and how it may have been remedied by the dealer.
Also worthwhile to note from the search results would be an absence of "endorsements" of some of the dealers by the advanced collectors on the LF. In such cases "silence" can be a message as well.
Some of the old-time collectors do not like to speak poorly of anyone; as a matter of principal and their up-bringing.
A few of the old-time collectors will not speak badly of a spurious dealer in an attempt to stay on that dealer's good side and hope to get the call when a rare and honest gun shows up in the dealer's hands.
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