Opinions on my Deactivated 1936 Luger

[HerrKaiser]

“A deactivated gun is a short iron bar”

Or just an over-engineered and machined paperweight/hammer. (Remember that any object/tool is a hammer at its most basic function, and hammers still kill more people than rifles in the USA per year)

I agree with Vlim that as a collector and avid, active gun rights proponent, I do not want any relevant authority to interpret that I will ever be satisfied or content to allow them to restrict my rights of property and self defense in exchange for making the tools I own into fancy, over-machined paperweights. Much the same way that they would not accept my taxes paid in full as pennies which I melted down into a raw block of copper.

This is not to disparage the OP in any way, I grieve at your plight and govt situation that forced you to have to be content in collecting deactivated and brutally gutted/scarred pieces of history. If it weren’t for the welds, it looks like it was formerly a very nice example of a Luger.