[quote]Originally posted by Johnny Peppers:
<strong>Commercial production of firearms is a rather different situation from military firearms manufactured during a time of war. Even though a commercial model may have been discontinued, the model is still sold well after being discontinued. The Model 1873 Winchester was still being sold some ten years after being discontinued. They were all made up from parts produced years earlier, but never used due to lack of sales.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't agree. Manufacturing of guns is done essentially the same way in war or peacetime. Just as commercial models may be made and sold new from stocks of parts for some period of time following announcement that it's being "discontinued", military production also produces more parts than are needed at a given moment.
Depending upon the manufacturing methods used, it's likely that production time or "blocks of time" were allocated to specific parts. (These blocks of time are planned far in advance of actual production.) Some parts may be manufactured by sub-contractors.
Even arsenals such as Erfurt stocked parts in excess of needs for immediate use and it's more than just a little likely that every part necessary to assemble a Luger was produced as spare parts for field use and for future arsenal use... including receivers.
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