They stopped using corrosive promers in ammunition a long time ago in the West. Probably the last of the corrosive ammo was just after WW-II.
The person the Luger was issued to may have paid much poorer attention to maintenance than the GI that captured it and brought it home as a war trophy.
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 Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum -
- Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.
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