Most of the DDR lugers that had worn bores, had the barrels replaced in 1953 when they were put away as surplus. Some of the new barrel will be marked with a month and year date (eg 953 for Sept 1953) below the DDR C/N. Long before these hit the commerical market, some of them showed up in VN, Chile, Lebanon, etc. being used by communist front organization. Of course the Russians had "plausable denignability" of these suplus German pistols. TH
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