Is it ok to get a $2000 Luger... then shoot it often?

[Michael Zeleny]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

They didn't blow up...but if and when they do, they are gone forever. You can't go back in time and undo a screwup.

I am unmoved by this argument. If I choose to shoot my pristine C96 and break its breechblock in the process, I can just as well afford to have a replica part made and fitted. The repair then becomes a part of the pistol's history, neither more nor less authentic than the wear and tear that it suffered in the XXth century. If Iraqis are allowed to run Tokarev ammo through their Borchardts, so am I.

"What one man can do, another can do." © 1997 David Mamet