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Originally Posted by DarkBiker98
Wow!!!! It’s really cool! Thanks for answer to all!!! But I still got some questions. Tell me pls what is that on picture. And what you can say about magazine. It’s commercial? Produced by Haenel?
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The spring that's riveted to the hood is a sear safety and designed to prevent accidental discharge of the pistol during disassembly for cleaning. When the side plate is removed, a pin on the end of the spring drops into a hole on the sear bar which prevents it from being depressed and releasing the firing pin.
Apparently the police had problems with officers leaving a round in the chamber when field stripping their Lugers. If the action is cocked when the upper assembly is removed from the frame, the sear bar can be depressed with a finger and fire the cartridge. The sear safety prevents that.
IMO, better training would have solved the problem but that's the solution the German police came up with.
Dwight is correct; the suffix letter is an "s".