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Originally Posted by Olle

You just have to look at how pistols are normally used. A pistol is a sidearm and spends most of its service life in a holster, so it won't get dinged up nearly as much as a rifle. If I had to guess, most of the "battle wear" and "blood stains" you find on old guns are actually a result of post war Bubba abuse. It doesn't matter if a gun made it through WWII without a scratch, Bubba can make it look like it has been in Normandie, Stalingrad and Bastogne, all at the same time. So guns like that have "been there" in a way, it's just a matter of where.

The Germans made unusual(as war tools) heavy use of pistols in both World Wars.