I'm working on that poem. The difficult word is Luger. Do they still have Lugers or is it a historical gun, belonging to the German Officers who crossed the Rhine. Did we not have Brownings in them days?
John,
I don't know if Lugars are still manufactured, but thousands of the originals are still around. They are mostly in the hands of collectors, since they have considerable historical value. They are still eminently shootable. There are numerous currently-made pistols based on the Lugar design. (When the patents on a gun design expire, the good ones are copied by other manufacturers.)
I have my grandfather's Browning shotgun (from the 1920's), which is still in good operating condition. Mr. Browning was a genius in firearm design, and guns of his design are still being made. He designed pistols, rifles, and shotguns. The Browning Automatic Rifle saw wide use in WW2 by the USA.
BTW, I live about 50 miles due south of where Hiram Maxim was born and raised. You probably know about his talents in gun design.
Properly cared for, firearms can last for generations. So, your protagonist could well be blazing away with his/her Lugar. Or, dodging bullets or shotgun pellets from a Browning.
Last edited by Douglas G. Brown; 05-03-2013 at 12:37 PM.
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