Maybe asking the obvious.. ..but how has no company manufactured repro Lugers?

[drache]

4" barrels?

Any idea which manufacturers?

The ones I seen were restricted.

Stoeger and Erma both made .22LR Copies. From what Ive seen the Erma is a lot closer to the real thing than the Stoeger.

 

[DrXenon]

The Luger had a lot of intricately machined parts that would cost a lot to reproduce. I'd buy a quality reproduction if it was less than $1250 or so.

 

[Kveldulf]

Around two million Lugers were produced and they were always a favourite souvenir of GIs. Lots of 'em south of the border; it's our lovely gun laws that keep them scarce up here.

 

[dogzilla]

Luger actually tried to sell them to the US, and submitted them for the 1911 trials. The Americans specified they had to have a grip safety, but they didn't like the small caliber (30 luger). I have a mint one with the grip safety and the American Eagle stamped on top. It's also restricted cause the barrel is about 120mm.

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[polaris]

looks like mine comes from the same stable:

 

[7.62mm]

Here is a question that I have been meaning to ask for years......what was the idea of the double curved trigger?

 

[sunray]

"...Is the cost purely associated with..." Pretty much. It's require the parts to be redesigned for modern production techniques. Suspect the actual demand isn't there either.
A 1911 is a much simpler design. Far easier to make.

 

[eos]

Mitchell arms did do a repro few years back.

Not sure if they are still in business.

on-ca

I've examined one. No match for original German craftmanship.

 

[eos]

Part of the problem with Lugers is that they are a reminder of the Nazi's, a lot of company's would not want to tarnish their image by producing something used by the bad guys to enforce their agenda.

I hardly believe that. Hitler was still drawing stick figures on #### house walls when the P08 went into production.