[John Sabato]

A thought to ponder... as more and more of our great WW2 vets are passing away (last I heard we are losing about 1200 a day) their family heirlooms are being brought out in public. Among these heirlooms are Luger war souvenirs that they personally took from their captives... I don't think it is much of a stretch that these guns taken from the person they were originally issued to, could possibly still be with their originally numbered magazines... When Datig made his statement about numbered mags (50 years ago) many of the guns now available were still hidden in the tops of family closets wrapped in an oiled cloth. I know of two that are still stored that way by the family of the heroes that brought them home. Are we seeing more matching magazines... yes. Are they ALL fraudulent? I don't think so. I think that the era we live in, of fast and wide reaching communications...just like this forum make for more public awareness of such things... there will always be the jerks who will defraud us of our hard earned money... but don't lump all the matching mags into the same group... Many of them are honest and genuine IMHO.