[quote]Originally posted by mskirv:
<strong>BTW- what is a sear safety? and why don't I have one?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Melissa, the sear safety is a small, bent piece of steel riveted over the top of the side plate on the left side of the gun. In the photos above the upper Luger has a sear safety, the lower one does not.
The sear safety was added to Lugers when they were pressed into service by German civilian Police organizations beginning in the Weimar Republic period between the two World Wars; it is one defining characteristic of those pistols.
I don't know if you have gone so far as to attempt to disassemble your Luger. When you do so, you -MUST- make sure that it is unloaded, that there is no cartrige in the chamber. It is a characteristic of Lugers that they can be fired when the cannon--the upper barrel/receiver/toggle assembly--is removed from the frame. The sear safety was added to prevent this occurrance.
Your Luger does not have one because it was never used as a German police weapon.
--Dwight