I was in Saudi Arabia '73-'74 stationed at Tabuk in the northeast, not far from the Jordania border, where I was a maintenance advisor to a Saudi Army Brigade maintenane effort.
I visited a colleague in Taif who was a gun collector and he told me that he had seen a Luger for sale at the local market. We went there the next morning.
When queried, the seller did not produce the Luger; my colleague suggested that perhaps he was nervous about my bearing there. Instead, the seller had a K98 that appeared as if it had never had a bullet slid up the loading ramp. I was then not interested and took no details. Now, I wish I had been!
David
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