History help 1916 Luger

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

A police pistol should have the 'Schiwy sear safety' or the remains of one. Let your pic show the left side where the sear bar is. What few pics shown do not indicate a magazine safety.

Police Lugers are always cool, especially if taken into (or from) army service.

True on the cool part!

Not all police lugers have the sear safety, those used by the
"barracked police" in Prussia did not have to have the safety added, at least not until 1937 or so when Himmler ordered all police pistols to hvet the sear safety.

Bavarian and Saxon(and a couple other states) pistols may also be without, again until 1937;though some would have had them added late.

Subject to correction by Don M. or Ed T, or Dwight G., they are the experts on Police lugers.