Luger's Unsafe to Shoot?

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by mrerick

So, as a very early (and the first militarily successful) semi-automatic pistol design, the Luger is certainly not as advanced as some later designs.

Since there is no firing pin block system, it would be possible to dislodge the sear bar from the firing pin striker if the Luger is dropped on a hard surface at the appropriate angle as long as the safety is disengaged.

For this reason, I would not select a Luger as a concealed carry firearm today. There are better designs. The Luger is not a defective design by any means. It was the result of quite a bit of refinement at the time is was engineered.

A hundred years of new ideas by thousands of experienced designers have been commercialized since the Luger was made.

What other product has stood up as well in this time period? How many 1900 vintage adding machines do you still see in use? Many Stanley Steemers on the road? You get the picture...

I will preface my comments by addressing them only to a pistol in good condition and in proper fitment- faulty or worn out parts excluded that can cause most anything to "go wrong".

I would sure like to know what angle and what altitude it would take to jar a luger sear bar enough to disengage the striker!

I am not buying this as "possible", unless you have more info or can demonstrate such an occurrence or cite some documentation that it has ever occurred.

The combined spring tension of the trigger against the trigger lever and the sear spring tension on the sear bar itself would preclude any movement of the sear bar from an impact short of "bullet strike" energy.

Even the forward pressure on the sear engagement boss of the sear bar from the striker itself forces the sear bar forward into its angled engagement, further limiting any movement!