Luger paint color

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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

There were 'some' guns painted, but the vast majority have and were blued or browned, now newer guns, such as glocks and such, i don't know what their coating is?

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Ed

Modern guns.. i.e., Glock, Beretta, use a nitrocarburizing process, Glock calls theirs "Tenifer" and Beretta calls theirs "Bruniton" but it is the same process.
Para USA and a few others use an IonBond process which electrically bonds coating with surface metal.
Good old fashioned hot salt blueing is not very common anymore with manufacturers due to the labor and time it takes to do it properly, but as an old school collector, I just cannot get fired up to the new finishes. Duracoat?? Don't get me started....