Re: DWM 1914 Rig
The two main parts of the safety are the safety bar and the safety lever. The part that prevents the sear bar from moving when the safety lever is applied is the safety bar.
The Germans may have just lost the war, but they did not lose their sense of commerce. The DWM factory would never have sent a battle weary P08 to the United States to be sold as a new commercial pistol. The German economy was in desperate need of money, and the last thing they would want to do was to destroy an established market by selling a left over military pistol with all the military markings intact under the guise of being a new pistol. Some of the 1920 Commercial parts may have been left over military, but all military markings had been removed before refinish. The leftover military pistols stamped with the Reichswehr 1920 property mark have long been confused with the 1920 Commercial, but are in no way related.
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