My Great Grandfather served in the United States Army as a tank commander in World War Two to fight Against Nazi Germany. One day during his campaign, he found a pistol in its holster on the body of a dead German solider. He took it and brought it back home where it subsequently came into my grandfather’s possession when his father died. It remains in my grandfather procession to this day, the pistol and its holster still containing nazi insignia impression upon when it entered German service.

The picture above is that of a variation of the Luger pistol, a semi-automatic side arm used by the German Military in both world wars. Depending on the variant, of which there are many, for this design has been through two world wars. It fires either a 9×19 mm round or a 7.65×17 mm round. The picture is not the same pistol in my grandfather possession (Unless for some reason he personally contributed to the Wikipedia entry on Lugar pistols), and I cannot identify the exact model that he has. (To be entirely honest, I can’t even be a hundred percent certain the German gun he has is even a Lugar, that only details I know Is that it’s a German pistol from World War two). And given the fact that my grandparents are currently on vacation in Mexico as if this writing, I can’t exactly ask him for pictures and details at the moment.

Nonetheless the Lugar pistol is an example of a family heirloom that, although has only been passed to only generation.