Rookie Luger owner (1917 1920 DWM)

[Don M]

Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

Do you think that this was originally an Artillery but rebarrelled to 4"?
dju

Yes, probably by the police in the early 1920s since the long-barraled LP08 was unwieldly for police work.

The lack of a sear or mag safety as well as the cancellation of the police property marking indicates the gun was originally reissued to a barracked Schupo unit that was transferred to the military in the mid-1930s as Ed has suggested.