Luger History Query

Generally, the higher ranking the officer, the smaller the caliber of pistol.

But just for grins, how about letting him carry a C-96 Broomhandle with the big Red "9" in the grips?

This would have been compatible to all other 9mm parabellum ammo, but was produced starting in 1916, for WW1.

These are interesting looking guns, and there is a detachable wooden box shoulder stock that opened to become a holster. Although they look like Rube Goldberg designed them, (.....and the little cuckoo pops out right *here*,)they were amazingly accurate and well balanced.

It would surely have been a dinosaur, but one that could shoot ammo he could have obtained easily in WW2.