Not a bad article of a general nature. They don't say that the Ruger standard auto shape was a conscious imitation of the Luger, but it was. (The Ruger didn't need the swept back grip to work, the Luger did.)
An interesting note. Around 1949, a pistol was produced called the "Kruger". A scaled down look-alike of the Luger, it was actually a muzzle loader. Made of plastic, with a steel tube barrel liner, it fired a BB pellet by means of a toy cap. When yet another Luger imitation came on the market, a lot of people confused it with the little Kruger and wanted nothing to do with it. The latter gun was, of course, the Ruger Standard Model, one of the most successful pistol designs in history.
Jim
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