.45 Luger... a bargain!

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Steven Spielberg is Jewish, would he buy a "Nazi Gun"?
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Um....I am, and I do. I like the irony. Hitler would spin in his grave to know that the guns made for his military were arming a Jew.

Why are people guessing Spielberg? Does he have a gun collection? the only Hollywood gun collector I know of is Steven Segal.
 
I think 50 45 cal Lugers were made for the 1907 tests and I recall 2 have survived, but maybe it's just the one.

Seems like I have heard that Spielberg collects guns but not sure and no idea if he bought this one.

Not a Nazi gun. Made in 1907 and Nazis came to power in 1933.
 
Some of you guys must not have read the article very closely....

Only three were made and two survived. The other is in a Louisiana museum.

In 1949, collector Sidney Aberman bought the Luger for $150 from a friend who paid the same price for it five years earlier. After Aberman died, the gun was acquired by a California dealer who sold it to the Indonesian billionaire, Yani Haryanto, for $1 million. The Luger was since sold privately several times. Sunday was the first time it had been available for public bidding, Martin said.
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When the US military decided to phase out the revolver they had 'try-outs' for various designs. Lugar built three weapons in 45 ACP which was part of US specs for the testing phase. One was believed to have been 'shot to pieces' and the other two... If not for Brownings' superior design in the 1911 this might have been the US duty arm.
 
Hints to the buyers identity are that he is a celebrity with a huge firearms collection. I bet it was Arnold or Sly.
 
Did not realize Spielberg was a gun nut. I guess if I had big bucks my collection would fill a warehouse. Regretfully with my age I only have maybe 10 good collecting years left. I do have a nice sized collection / musem I have amassed however. That 45 Luger is amazing.

I have a stainless Michell Arms 1992Amerrican eagle (Luger) made by AIMCO INC HOUSTON TX.
 
There are a number of celebrity collectors that it could be, I think Tom Selleck would be out, his interests are western themed.
 
Friend of mine purchased a .45 Luger for $500 about two years ago. When Luger didn't get a military contract, they made them for the US civilian market. They're out there if you look hard enough
 
I don't know how he got to be a billionaire without watching the general economy better.
Selling a huge ticket specialty item like that now was just not smart.

Interesting to hear that there are now claimed to have been three 1907 .45 Lugers instead of two... plus the million dollar .45 carbine on one site.

John Martz would build you a .45 Luger out of two 9mms, taking a little more than half of each one, fore and aft. He did a lot of other weird stuff. I would like to try his .22 Magnum Luger.

The Wyatt-Imthurn .45 Lugers, maybe 50 made in Louisiana in the 1950s were simply 9mms opened up to the absolute maximum. They did not even have detachable magazines, they top loaded down into the magazine well which had the bottom permanently boxed over.

There was a gunsmith making faithful copies of the 1907 guns from scratch. He started out at $10,000 each, saying he would build 100 maximum. Maybe he is up to $30,000 as mentioned above.
 
Speilburg was on the cover of a gun rag that folded several years ago . With a shotgun, IIRC. I ate dinner at a gun rights conference with a guy from Hollywood who said Speilburg was a big gun fancier but didnt' publicize it.

The guy was some behind the camera techy type. No idea his name anymore. :confused:

As far a new Lugers - there was the guy who made 45s by hand and then the American Eagle SS guns made by some company and marketed by two separate gun companies whom I don't recall.

They were not reviewed positively. Lugers are fun guns though.
 
I read that article too, FMJ. THey were made for trials with the US military, and there were two. One is in a museum or something as I recall?
 
I read that article too, FMJ. THey were made for trials with the US military, and there were two. One is in a museum or something as I recall?
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well it was a while ago, but if i remember correctly there were a total of three .45acp luger prototypes made, and two were disassembled shortly after the trials and no one knows what happened to them, so there's only one in existence now.
 
My guess is John Milius is the buyer. He's a Hollywood gun guy known for a large collection and is on the board of the NRA.
 
well it was a while ago, but if i remember correctly there were a total of three .45acp luger prototypes made, and two were disassembled shortly after the trials and no one knows what happened to them, so there's only one in existence now.
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i believe... of the original three, one was shot to destruction, one is in the museum and this is the third one
 
The prices do seem a bit low,,if that Colt isn't a million-dollar handgun, the first single action army!? friggin' kidding me. Wonder who bought that one?
 
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Let us pray... I could really go for an affordable Luger.
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A few months ago, I picked up a Mauser commercial model 6" .30 cal., unfired in the box, for $500 :neener:

The original receipt was still in the box, too. Guy had paid $274 for it in California in 1973.

I haven't shot it yet, still trying to decide if I will.
 
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