Old guy open carrying a Luger pistol

[SVT-40]

I was at In & Out today here in Prescott, and I saw a old guy (older than me) open carrying a German Luger pistol. I talked with him briefly and congratulated him on his fine choice of pistols!

It was a well worn WWII issued gun in 9mm.

I didn't feel like intruding on his lunch to ask for a photo..

The things you see in Arizona!!!

[hermosabeach]

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...


I know VW has broken the stigma

The Swastika is OK in 1/2 of the world.. still banned / associated with Hitler in the western world... not Asia, India etc


I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

1- Use it and you might lose it. CCW should be a rust proof tool
2- use it and the Civil case plaintiff lawyer will make you out to be a NAZI
3- what holster is made for a luger?
4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

[smle-man]

Lugers were tested by the U.S. Army long before Nazis existed. I have a 1970s Mauser Luger, not a Nazi issue The Swiss, Russians, Dutch, and others used the Luger too.

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...


I know VW has broken the stigma

The Swastika is OK in 1/2 of the world.. still banned / associated with Hitler in the western world... not Asia, India etc


I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

1- Use it and you might lose it. CCW should be a rust proof tool
2- use it and the Civil case plaintiff lawyer will make you out to be a NAZI
3- what holster is made for a luger?
4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

[Notpc]

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...


I know VW has broken the stigma

The Swastika is OK in 1/2 of the world.. still banned / associated with Hitler in the western world... not Asia, India etc


I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

1- Use it and you might lose it. CCW should be a rust proof tool
2- use it and the Civil case plaintiff lawyer will make you out to be a NAZI
3- what holster is made for a luger?
4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

I believe the swastika in the Asian, Indian, and Native American cultures are reversed or a mirror image.

[XDJYo]

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...


I know VW has broken the stigma

The Swastika is OK in 1/2 of the world.. still banned / associated with Hitler in the western world... not Asia, India etc


I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

1- Use it and you might lose it. CCW should be a rust proof tool
2- use it and the Civil case plaintiff lawyer will make you out to be a NAZI
3- what holster is made for a luger?
4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

I agree that a Luger isn't the 100% correct firearm for CCW or OGW (Old Guy Weapon?).

1911 for the win!

[I Swan]

I know a gun shop where a guy carries a P38 in a crappy holster and with aftermarket junk spare magazines. I knew one where the owner carried an AMT Backup 380 single action. Both carried openly.

I've open carried some odd guns one was a old H&R pre 999 Sportsman.

[Dvrjon]

In the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, swastika means "well-being". The symbol has been used by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for millennia and is commonly assumed to be an Indian sign.

Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles. The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America called their magazine Swastika. They would even send out swastika badges to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the magazine," he says.

It was used by American military units during World War One and it could be seen on RAF planes as late as 1939.

[The Gleam]

Lugers started production around 1900; commercial variants, and several different countries used them as side-arms long prior to WWII. And not all German Lugers used during WWII are connected to Nazis. Mauser even made them post-war, including American Eagle retro-examples in the 1970's (imported by Interarms.)

I have American Eagles, Swiss, Portugese, Netherlands, and Bulgarian crest examples - even German army pre-WWII- which have nothing to do with Nazis. Some are even marked by Simson &Co/ Suhl, a Jewish owned manufacturer. Others beyond my own include Brazil, Prussia, Bolivia, Chile, Norway, among others.

The Nazi association is purely out of lack of grasping the vast history and wide use the of the Luger, no different than those associating AR-based rifles with "automatic weapons of war" due to Hollywoodized depiction.

Too much 'Hogan's Heroes' and Colonel Klink I guess.

Elmer Keith thought highly of the Luger, and would likely think it not too bad as a CCW arm, so long as it were in 9mm.

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[SVT-40]

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...


I know VW has broken the stigma

The Swastika is OK in 1/2 of the world.. still banned / associated with Hitler in the western world... not Asia, India etc


I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

1- Use it and you might lose it. CCW should be a rust proof tool
2- use it and the Civil case plaintiff lawyer will make you out to be a NAZI
3- what holster is made for a luger?
4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

Said like a true Californian.

Not trying to pick a fight. But out of California things are very different.

The only swastikas on any WWII German Luger pistol would be a microscopic one on maybe a proof mark.

Any gun makes a good cary pistol, if it's the one you have at the time.

Remember in Arizona no one needs a CCW permit to either open or conceal carry.

The holster he was using was a very old and worn belt type.

I've seen people carrying all sorts of different pistols, including single action types and .22's

Any pistol is better than no pistol at all.

[IVC]

Finnish aviation just recently stopped using swastika. Here's a BBC article that is a year old...

[sealocan]

Wait a second.


This all explains why Tikka rifles didn't get back to me about my groundbreaking S.W.A.S. rifle design.

[TrailerparkTrash]

I know people think I am crazy but I associate Lugers with the Nazi Party...

I would say a Luger would be a horrible CCW firearm.

4- mag change- low capacity and slow reloads... I also recall if the slide is locked open... you must insert a magazine to close the slide. So for a type 3 malfunction, how do you clear it?

[Killer Bee]

old guys rule - especially sporting a WWII sidearm open carry

I know people think I am crazy

blah blah blah

[warbird]

Isn't this about freedom of choice in a place that practices that concept?

[Oxnard_Montalvo]

On 21Aug2012 the Huffington Post posted a story titled : "Swastika Rehabilitation Day Is June 23; Raelians Celebrate" (which, by the magic that is Al Gore's internet is STILL available for your consideration and I even heard that they posted it again in 2013, link below)

So if the 'sophisticated' crowd that supports the Huffington Post is ok with bringing the swastika back who can argue? [/sarcasm off]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/swastika-rehabilitation-day_n_1610551