Dirty Cryin' Shame

[Big Norm]

Oh WOW! that is a shame. But at one time, the BATF said that it had to be done to make the gun legal. Then there was once an article in a gun magazine that said that if the stock lug was removed the gun had a better balance in the grip. Then I heard if some southern sheriff geting ahold of a guys recovered from a robberys Luger. The sheriff removed the stock lug without asking permission or telling anybody before he did it. The the sheriff returned the Luger to the owner.


There is a guy in a local gun show in Michigan who has been trying to sell an artillery for forever. It had the lug removed too. He tried to weld a lug on it in hopes that he could sell it. I haven't seen the guy or the artillery for a long time so I don't know if he ever got rid of it.


I also cry a little when I see the barrel of an artillery or a navy sawed off. Bought a navy once that had that done to it. The frame and the receiver was beautiful original blue and great strawing. But someone put a new barrel on it. They did a good job renumbering the barrel. But the bluing on the barrel just was not the same. People with good eyes could tell the difference.


But you are talking about a chamber dated 1914 DWM artillery and that is different and makes me feel sad. There are many horror stories out there in the Luger world.

Big Norm