[Edward Tinker]

Pete, no expert yet, but in my research I have been told and seen;

If it has a magazine safety, it will have a sear safety.

If it has a sear safety it might have a magazine safety.

In Jan's Third Reich Lugers, it states that many Imperial guns were still in storage, and were issued to police in the late 30's. I quote, "in the early 30's the police required two additional safeties... On Aug 30th, 1933 a directive from the Prussian Ministry of Interior required all police P08's within the Prussian state be modified to include sear and mag safety...

On May 27th 1937, another directive that all mag safeties be rendered inoperative..."

You see them with the sear safety only; as this shows; from Weimar Lugers, I quote "these Lugers were probably introduced into police service from storage, after 1937, when only the sear safety was required."

Ed