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Ron Wood · 01-17-2008, 01:40 AM

Albert,
I appreciate your suspicions about a 9mm Carbine, but in 1968 I had the opportunity to buy just such a beast. It was in the little town of Alamogordo, New Mexico, and was part of a collection of 20+ Lugers that had just been obtained by a gun shop owner from a retiring Air Force noncom stationed at Holloman Air Force Base. It was almost mint with a matching stock. It was a Model 1902 and it was not a fake. The asking price was $1500. But as a then young Captain in the US Army with two toddler children whose first new car in 1962 cost $1350 that had to be paid off over 3 years, it might as well have been $1,500,000. Your documentation notwithstanding, I know that at least one 9mm Carbine does exist and I held it in my own two hands.

01-17-2008, 01:40 AM	#11
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,040 Thanks: 1,106 Thanked 5,257 Times in 1,724 Posts	Albert, I appreciate your suspicions about a 9mm Carbine, but in 1968 I had the opportunity to buy just such a beast. It was in the little town of Alamogordo, New Mexico, and was part of a collection of 20+ Lugers that had just been obtained by a gun shop owner from a retiring Air Force noncom stationed at Holloman Air Force Base. It was almost mint with a matching stock. It was a Model 1902 and it was not a fake. The asking price was $1500. But as a then young Captain in the US Army with two toddler children whose first new car in 1962 cost $1350 that had to be paid off over 3 years, it might as well have been $1,500,000. Your documentation notwithstanding, I know that at least one 9mm Carbine does exist and I held it in my own two hands. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction