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| View Poll Results: Peaked interest of Lugers | |||
| One of the first widely adopted automatic pistols |
   
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1 | 1.27% |
| Craftsmenship, engineering, function |
  
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27 | 34.18% |
| Beauty, apperance, style |
  
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14 | 17.72% |
| Romanticized/connotion to WWI |
  
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5 | 6.33% |
| Connection to the Weimer Republic |
  
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2 | 2.53% |
| Romanticized/connection to Nazi Germany & WWII |
  
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9 | 11.39% |
| Other (explain) |
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21 | 26.58% |
| Voters: 79. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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03-22-2014, 10:49 PM
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I look at lugers differently today than I did many years ago. The reason has been both the passage of time and education. I'll admit it started as a kid with movies.
No Thanks to the Nazi's and Hollywood's help in portraying them in my opinion sealed the fate for the Luger as being the ultimate bad guys gun. You can pull 10 people at random off the street and show them a picture of a Luger and that could be any Luger a 1900 an American Eagle, Finnish, Swiss, maybe even an Erma .22 and I would beg to guess at least 5 out of the 10 would call it a luger or associate it with Nazis, Hitler or Germany under Nazism?
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