Always Check For A Round In The Chamber

[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.