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Ron Wood · 06-11-2008, 05:37 PM

Doug,
Your account of the 1968 registry does reflect the thinking of some people at the time which resulted in the unfortunate mutilation of these weapons. Actually there never was a requirement to grind anything, it just was prohibited to attach a shoulder stock to a handgun. If you didn't have a stock the pistol was perfectly legal, and vice versa...if you didn't have a pistol the stock was legal. Some folks in possession of both just removed the stock iron (and fortunately some of these irons were stashed away and reattached when the rules changed).
I think that Jack meant that if it still had the stock lug, it would have been too expensive to purchase and/or someone would have already snapped it up.

06-11-2008, 05:37 PM	#6
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: 7,051 Thanks: 1,120 Thanked 5,287 Times in 1,728 Posts	Doug, Your account of the 1968 registry does reflect the thinking of some people at the time which resulted in the unfortunate mutilation of these weapons. Actually there never was a requirement to grind anything, it just was prohibited to attach a shoulder stock to a handgun. If you didn't have a stock the pistol was perfectly legal, and vice versa...if you didn't have a pistol the stock was legal. Some folks in possession of both just removed the stock iron (and fortunately some of these irons were stashed away and reattached when the rules changed). I think that Jack meant that if it still had the stock lug, it would have been too expensive to purchase and/or someone would have already snapped it up. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction