Luger

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My brother in law just picked up a luger for real cheap. Its missing the trigger. I was wondering if anyone could tell me more about it. It has zero marking on it and on the safety it says safe. So is it an actual german gun or a repo. It looks decently old.
 
You've got to supply pictures. True story ... a few years back I got a call from a woman I know and she was asking about a gun she wanted to know about. This was long before the days of smart phones so she described it to me over the phone. Being a commercial artist she did a good job describing a Walther P38.

When I finally saw it, it was a water pistol.

Not that yours is a water pistol, but one picture is truly worth a thousand words.
 
I have this old car.
it says Mustang on it.
Please tell me about it and how much it is worth,,,,
 
Or at least tell us what caliber it is until you can get pictures up, dbrown. If it's a 22, it's not a "real" Luger, even if it says Luger right on it. There have been cheap replica Lugers made in 22 (and also 32 ACP, and 380 ACP, now that I think of it). One of the replica makers had the right to use the Luger name here in America.
 
Back in the late 80's, I had a full auto water gun that was dead on for an Uzi. Hold the trigger down and it would squirt after squirt after squirt until the reservoir went empty.

From a distance, if I saw it today, I'd be hard pressed to tell it was a toy.
 
We will need to see close up pic of the top of the barrel at a minimum, and any other stampings or engraved marks.
 
The safety bar (which is what that part is called) on a Luger is not marked; that marking appears to have been done with an electric pencil of some kind.

It is still impossible to tell if the gun is real or not, but a genuine Luger has all kinds of marks on it. I suspect you might have a "non-gun"; those were made in Japan for collectors in that country, where real guns are almost totally banned for private ownership. (Criminals have no problem getting guns, though.) Many of them were also sold here as decorators and some were good enough that it was hard to tell them from real guns at more than a few feet. (In fact, I once held a copy of an Enfield No. 2 Mk 1 revolver and thought it was real, but then those guns were very crude so that the copy didn't differ that much from the real one.)

Jim
 
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