Herb,
I think I'll have, say, James Mason as Erwin Rommel try it before I do, but I can promise you one thing: If you could stand the recoil, you'd easily be able to keep the toggle closed (as would one wrap of duct tape). Since the center toggle pin axis is designed to sit just a little lower than the line connecting the centers of the breech pin and the rearmost pin, the toggle will resolutely hold itself closed under full recoil. Remember how they had a toggle lock for a while, and then took it off when it proved unnecessary? It's only those ramps on the back of the frame that "trip" the toggle and let it start folding. That brings up another interesting detail. When the Luger toggle in the assembled gun is operated by hand, the opening sequence is quite different from the firing sequence, and the toggle knobs never strike the ramps.
Of course our loose cannon would never encounter any ramps either, so the toggle should stay closed.
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