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Unread 12-26-2013, 01:52 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DavidJayUden View Post
Do you think that this was originally an Artillery but rebarrelled to 4"?
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Yes, probably by the police in the early 1920s since the long-barraled LP08 was unwieldly for police work.

The lack of a sear or mag safety as well as the cancellation of the police property marking indicates the gun was originally reissued to a barracked Schupo unit that was transferred to the military in the mid-1930s as Ed has suggested.
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