Always Check For A Round In The Chamber

[cirelaw]

Check out this one!!! Scary! http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...881#post287881 A luger can be fired with the upper alone!!!

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by cirelaw

Check out this one!!! Scary! http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...881#post287881

That one I don't find particularly scary.

As long as you know it's loaded. And if you do it on purpose, it's perfectly safe, except for the person who doesn't think he's going to get shot with a half disassembled pistol. The Germans used to do it to unsuspecting enemies.

As an afterthought: Weimar Police firearms handling ought to have had really low standards, cause they thought necessary to add a sear safety that prevented firing a half disassembled Luger and a magazine safety that prevented firing the pistol after removing the magazine. All that in a pistol that had a loaded chamber indicator.

[Zorba]

Tangential thought: I have a Ruger Mk III .22lr automatic pistol. The amount of wailing and crying about the LCI on that pistol is flabberghasting. I personally *like* an LCI, I remind these folk that the Luger has one too - it isn't just a "Nanny-State Conspiracy (tm)"!

[Bill_in_VA]

Originally Posted by zormpas

Tangential thought: I have a Ruger Mk III .22lr automatic pistol. The amount of wailing and crying about the LCI on that pistol is flabberghasting. I personally *like* an LCI, I remind these folk that the Luger has one too - it isn't just a "Nanny-State Conspiracy (tm)"!

Perhaps, but the loaded chamber indicator on a P.08 is nothing more than the extractor standing proud of the breech block. Granted, it's marked "geladen" but it's still nothing more than the extractor. On the Ruger MKIII, however, (and the P.38 and PP, just to keep it somewhat related to German pistols) the loaded chamber indicator is a separate part that serves no other purpose than to indicate a loaded chamber.

[Zorba]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_VA

Perhaps, but the loaded chamber indicator on a P.08 is nothing more than the extractor standing proud of the breech block. Granted, it's marked "geladen" but it's still nothing more than the extractor. On the Ruger MKIII, however, (and the P.38 and PP, just to keep it somewhat related to German pistols) the loaded chamber indicator is a separate part that serves no other purpose than to indicate a loaded chamber.

True enough.

I still like an LCI, regardless of how its accomplished. People seem to miss the point of one though.