Funny. Those long barrel match lugers are the ones that Waffenfabrik Bern warned about in the 1970s.
The Buenos Aires pistols were reconverted to standard by the factory and sold on the commercial market. Barrels were sold separately.
These pistols were fitted with long barrels by a 3rd party and are not in the original configuration as such.
This was confirmed in a letter, dated 1976, when the pistols were on the market for an inflated price already.
Puts the other guns in a certain light as well.
But on the other hand, when someone bought the original guns, then sourced the original target barrels and put them back together again, can they be considered as fakes or as restorations? Whatever they are, the controversy will always be there.
It says they were in the Horst Rutsch collection. He published about them in 1978. I wonder what's still present in the RUAG archives. Time for Alexander Stucki to join in
