Fraud in Phoenix

[Aaron]

Checked out the Phoenix gun show the weekend of April 7th, looking to see what decent Lugers were available. One guy had a minty looking black Luger holster on his table. I asked if it had a Luger in it, and he proudly declared it contained a mint matching outfit including two mags. As soon as I picked it up I realized the holster was a repro. The Luger inside was a 1936 S42, dip blued and importer stamped, with the sideplate and many parts crudely renumbered with odd looking oversized numbers. The grips were new and crudely made, and the two mags were also crudely renumbered, metal bottoms, one marked FXO and the other unmarked. No loading tool. The price for this monstrosity? $1250!!! When I mentioned it was just a junky Russian rebuild, he grabbed it out of my hands and turned his back on me. Hope he didn't find a newbie to buy this rig! Someone else had a badly treated Luger covered with pits and some rust, but it looked intact and seemed to be capable of being a shooter. Asking price $195, but he probably would have taken less.