While you can't be absolutely sure from photos, your Luger looks like it's in original finish to me.
It is collectable and a piece of history. Damaging it will lose that.
It's not unusual on these forums to hear of mild loads damaging WW-II vintage pistols. They were well made, but there are common parts failures we can note.
I don't shoot collectable pistols. I have shooters for that purpose.
Here's a picture of a collectable P.38 that showed up this week on another forum...
Marc
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