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The Luger was officially adopted by the Swiss military in 1900, the Imperial German Navy in 1906 and the German Army in 1908. The Luger was the standard service pistol of Switzerland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Brazil, Bolivia, and Bulgaria. It was widely used in other countries as a military service pistol and by police forces. [11]
It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible P38 once World War II started took longer than expected, leading to the P08 remaining in production until September 1942 and copies remained in service until the end of the war.
Luger P08 ; Mauser C96 (PVA, KPA) Nagant M1895; Nambu Type 14; Nambu Type B; ... (PPSh-41 copy) Type 50 submachine gun (PPSh-41 copy) Machine guns. United Nations command
MP 41(r) Numerous 9x19mm Parabellum: Wehrmacht: A captured PPSh-41 converted to 9×19mm Parabellum caliber for use by German forces. MP 717(r) Numerous 7.63×25mm Mauser: Wehrmacht: A captured, unconverted PPSh-41 placed in German service and supplied with 7.63×25mm Mauser ammunition TZ-45: Fabbrica Fratelli Giandoso 9×19mm Parabellum ...
Personal weapons consisted of small arms such as the Walther PP which was designed as a civilian police pistol (PP Polizei-Pistole) or the Walther PPK both of which were favoured by officers whereas the Luger P08 and Walther P38 were used by other ranks.
Luger P08; Mauser C96; Smith & Wesson No.3; Submachine guns. MP-18; Rifles. Mauser 1887; Berdan rifle; GRC Gewehr 88/05; Martini–Henry Mk I; Mauser M1890; Mauser M1893 (Standard issue rifle) Mauser M1903, M1905 and M1908; Peabody–Martini–Henry M1874; Remington M1866 Rolling Block; Snider–Enfield Mk III; Winchester M1866; Machine guns ...
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Receiver of a Gewehr 98 rifle made by Simson in 1916 Toggle of a Luger P08 pistol made by Simson In World War I , Simson produced Mauser Gewehr 98 rifles for the German Army. In the aftermath of the war and the Treaty of Versailles , the reorganized Reichswehr was allowed to buy new handguns from only one company, so as to limit the ability of ...