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Unread 10-25-2021, 12:11 PM   #5
Dwight Gruber
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Originally Posted by mrerick View Post
With the IMKK out of Germany, does the continued need for the freedom to covertly manufacture P08 (military grade) Lugers explain the move of production from Charlottenburg near Berlin to Mauser in Oberndorf?
Nope. Simple corporate decision to consolidate production resources. SPECULATION consolidation also cheaper.

There was no need for covert production considerations, DWM had been producing P08s openly for more than two years. Army coded P08 production did not begin until 1935.

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