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How to tell police use?
I see Lugers advertised as police reworks. What are the tell-tale signs of police use?
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There are different acceptance stamps or proofs. The sear safety didn't come into use until (Help Old guys?) 1933? After that most police Lugers had it. Most military didn't.
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You will find police guns without sear safeties, but never find a military with a sear safety.
The only way to tell if it is a police and there isn't a sear safety is either a police unit marking or during the nazi times you might see an eagle L or the like. As said above, read the FAQ and it talks about sear and magazine safeties. FAQ http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=13121 Ed
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This got me to wondering, and I can't find anything on it. Were the police reworks of the Weimar Era retrofitted with the sear safety? All? Most? Thanks, FN |
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FN, me and Dwight Gruber are in the tail end of writing a book on police lugers, so I can answer many of your questions
In short; 1. Many WW1 and earlier lugers ended up in storage and were released to the police. (Keep in mind that many police were not police as we know them...) 2. Many new made DWM went to the police, see Weimar Lugers by Jan Still; this was in the 1920's up to 1929 and early 30's before mauser took over luger production.... None of these lugers would have had a sear safety until Quote:
After 1933 until around the early 1940's sear safeties were required to be put onto lugers, so those made after for police received them. Ed
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Grip strap markings are also key indicators of police use. My new book History Writ in Steel: German Police Markings 1900-1936 explains these in great detail.
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Perhaps they were more like "community organizers"...
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They were more para military I believe is what Ed is trying to say....
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Police as we know them in america is not how police in pre-ww2 were known and used. Much more of a military manner and in fact, many ex-military were brought together and used as "police" but were in reality military in many aspects, living in barracks, single, issued rifles, anti-tank weapons, etc. Some were; the rural police is more like a police like we knew, while the city police was broken down into many "types" of police; protection police, city police, water police, and then some police duties that in america would not be handled by the police. Ed
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You mean like the Fashion Police?
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More like recording births, deaths and marriages, inspecting building construction, etc., etc.
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