History of Police Safety Sear Installation - Page 2

jags · 04-02-2012, 07:48 AM

I'm curious to get some history and timeline of what may have happened to my 1917 Luger. My Luger is dated 1917 however the barrel and extension have been reblued and the numbers do not match the rest of the gun. It also has a sear safety. The grip frame has police markings and had been fitted with a mag safety that is no longer there.

I figure it's a WWI military produced gun that then went to the police force. It was "recalled" sometime in the 30's to have the safetys installed. Here are my questions;

1. Would the gun have been issued to the Police and the Police markings stamped on the grip frame before or after the gun was recalled to have the safetys installed?

2. If they were issued to the police after the safety install and grip frame markeing, where were they between the end of WWI and the time of the refit?

3. Would the gun have the sear safety installed and then have the barrel/extension reblued at the same time? Why was the rebluing neccessary? Would they then possibly rebuild the pistols with mismatching barrel/extension to the rest of the gun?

4. If these guns where recalled from police forces and already had the police markings, how did they insure they got back to the same police force after the refit?

I'm just curious on the entire timeline and history of how and why many of these guns went from military to police and how and why so many of these pistols have ended up with mismatching numbers.

Any insight or direction to an information source online would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

04-02-2012, 07:48 AM	#1
jags User Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 32 Thanks: 4 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	History of Police Safety Sear Installation I'm curious to get some history and timeline of what may have happened to my 1917 Luger. My Luger is dated 1917 however the barrel and extension have been reblued and the numbers do not match the rest of the gun. It also has a sear safety. The grip frame has police markings and had been fitted with a mag safety that is no longer there. I figure it's a WWI military produced gun that then went to the police force. It was "recalled" sometime in the 30's to have the safetys installed. Here are my questions; 1. Would the gun have been issued to the Police and the Police markings stamped on the grip frame before or after the gun was recalled to have the safetys installed? 2. If they were issued to the police after the safety install and grip frame markeing, where were they between the end of WWI and the time of the refit? 3. Would the gun have the sear safety installed and then have the barrel/extension reblued at the same time? Why was the rebluing neccessary? Would they then possibly rebuild the pistols with mismatching barrel/extension to the rest of the gun? 4. If these guns where recalled from police forces and already had the police markings, how did they insure they got back to the same police force after the refit? I'm just curious on the entire timeline and history of how and why many of these guns went from military to police and how and why so many of these pistols have ended up with mismatching numbers. Any insight or direction to an information source online would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!