[Curly1]

Why are there so many non-matching mags with Lugers and a lot of other WWII handguns? I would have assumed if it was a bring back they would have the correct mags.

Where the guys in the trenches required to turn in the mags for the trip home and then just get issued whatever was in the pile when they disembarked?
This I can understand as some knuckle head would eventually end up having a ND aboard ship.

Are matching ones officer bring backs who didn't have to turn in their mags?

Where they mixed up in the armory during the war?

Or have the majority been brought in after the war by importers prior to the mandatory importer desecration markings act and who knows what they did with them before they hit the streets?

All of the above?

Or does this fall in the category of "Why are we here?"

I have wondered about this for some time.