[Edward Tinker]

I am wondering a few things... There were other contracts that required grip safeties, so what is required to swtich from one type of gun to another.

I am specifically thinking of the Dutch guns, made until the 30's with a grip safety?

What other countries wanted a grip safety? Several still in the 20's and 30's?

I was thinking that was called the 1906 model, and what does that mean? I will look it up, but if others know off the top of their head what differences were in manufacturing???

My thought process is that it was a smart thing to continue some oddities. In Jan's book Weimar Lugers, it states that the police armoury (sp) kept artillery stocks on hand to test fire 4 inch Lugers. Here in America they are illegal, but in Germany and other countries, they have target contests using stocks latched onto 4 inchers... So, maybe it was left on for a useful purpose. Maybe we are thinking like Americans that it is illegal and it isn't and wasn't there, so it extends the usefulness of a gun?

Ed