What attracts you to the luger?

[Vlim]

Originally posted by lboos
Thypentacle and Davidkackel. so far from what iv,e read here you two are the only two to tell it like it is. everone else stays away from the words like nazi, SS. ww 2. most say things about the luger like, a work of art, the old gangster movies. a beautiful weapon, a stremline gun, and oh aint it pretty.

Hmm, if I weren't such an amical person, I'd think you were calling just about everyone in this thread a lyer because we don't share your nazi-preoccupational views....

The Nazi's were only a small part of the Luger history, which started almost half a century earlier. In fact, the luger fame can be attributed more to the first world war than the second. Don't forget that during the first years of the 1900's just about every army that took itself serious had tested the luger and it came very close to being the US military service gun as well.

Switzerland was the forerunner in many ways and without the Swiss it probably wouldn't have evolved into the gun we know today. Many countries eventually accepted the luger as official side arm and much more contracts were fulfilled. This is what makes collecting the luger so interesting, the hundreds of variations available.

The first luger I bought was a Dutch KNIL contract version and part of my own country's history.

I regard the Nazi era to be more of a blemish on the pistol's history than anything else. As history proved, they were a bunch of idiots and nothing to be proud of.