Import/non-import

[Johnny Peppers]

It makes no difference as to how the Lugers originally entered the US, their know history starts at that time. Any speculation about the pistols currently being imported from the former Soviet Union being used in operation Barbarossa is to design the pistols history to suit your liking. The Russian pistols may have been captured at Stalingrad, or they may have been captured in Berlin. The fact that most of them lay rusting away in a Russian warehouse until the Russians discovered that they were a source of much needed capital adds nothing to their history. I have never seen an absolutely 100% unused military P08, so apparently all Lugers were used and who is to say that the 98% original piece has no history where the dip blued import stamped Luger does? I think that it is great that another shooter grade of Luger has been offered to the public to satisfy those that have been seeking a good shooter Luger but didn't want to pay the price of a collector grade. Not too many years ago there was very little difference in the price of a 95% and a 98% military P08, but the difference in their prices are moving farther and farther apart and this is driven by demand. We are lucky to live in a time and place where we can own the Luger we prefer with only a small inconvenience.