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Unread 01-14-2011, 02:57 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by RhinoDiesel View Post
I was told by my father before he passed away that my grandfather was an MP and had to shoot the man with this gun during a situation at some type of check point. I was wondering if it could be true being a police issue but this is the holster it was in and with it being military maybe its more accurate than I thought.
Things were so chaotic in Berlin at the end of the war almost anyone may have acquired the pistol and holster separately and have gotten into an altercation with your grandfather.
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