[John Sabato]

For those of you who are wondering what is so different about the photo of the Luger that John D. has posted above... you will see that at the muzzle there is a band around the barrel and a protrusion behind the front sight base. If I remember correctly, the protrusion is spring loaded, and if depressed, allows the entire front sight band to be unscrewed, revealing the threads where the "sound suppressor" would be attached. The term "silencer" is a piece of Hollywood fiction... as anyone who has ever stood next to a "suppressed" weapon will tell you... There is still plenty of sound... just a lot less than there would have been without the suppressor...