This is the ‘Family Luger’:
Before I knew the story behind the P.08 I was asked a question about it by the young lady I was dating at the time. She was moving out of an apartment into her own condo and her father thought she should have a gun for self protection.
She asked me if a Luger was a good choice for a novice gun owner. While she had been deer hunting with her Dad, she was not a ‘handgun person’. I opined that a 6-shot .38 revolver would be a better choice for her situation.
Skip ahead to the two of us eloping to Reno to get married. My new FIL was very happy that we saved him some big wedding costs that he gave me the Luger as a wedding gift. 41 years later my wife still calls it “the bribe”.
It turns out the gun was a WWII bring-back by his brother. The brother died in Korea and the pistol went to my FIL. So now I am keeper of the Family Luger. BTW, it is a very fine shooter!
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