Well I picked up a WW 1 Luger today. Saw it, saw the price, decided i could afford it, so I bought it. I figure I probably paid to much for it, but it was within my price range and I had always wanted a luger so I bought it. So Now I am trying to figure out as much as I can about this firearm.

 

I have most of the markings identified on it wunt there is one stamp that has me stumped. I can not find any referance to what it means. The Stamp is YKN and its on both the side ant top of the reciver. I am wondering if any of you know what it means?

Might have been a previous owner's initials. It's not factory, of that I am sure.

Long barrel? it's an "artillery" model. Cool!!!

called a friend who has over 90 lugers it may be a 1920 police rework

Might have been a previous owner's initials. It's not factory, of that I am sure.

I figured it was not done at the time of manufacture due to the top one being much deaper and cruder than the rest of markings, though the one on the side could almost pass for one. Initials are a posibility, just seams weird to me that they would stamp there initials in two places like that. Also I can not really think of any names that start with "Y"

 

Long barrel? it's an "artillery" model. Cool!!!

Not really, thats why it was within my price range. The gun is all matching parts except the barrel, which has no identifcation markings that I can see (I have not take it apart yet). The sales man that sold it to me told me that some previous owner had swiched out the original barrel with a longer one. It would be really cool if that the salesman had just assumed that based on there being no markings on the barrel and I just happened to get really lucky, but I don't have that type of luck.

 

called a friend who has over 90 lugers it may be a 1920 police rework

Thanks for asking your friend. Do you know what type of things they would do for a police rework. I have seen that police rework mentioned before while trying to find info on my new firearm, but not what it entailed.

 

 

Another question does any one know about the legality of getting a reproduction stock for it. According to the ATF I believe it is legal, but what about in NJ?

Nice artillery Luger.

 

I noticed the numbers we can see all match, is it all matching throughout? If it is, I wouldn't recommend shooting it heavily, Luger collectors are the most anal about matching numbers and Lugers are known to break extractors. If that happens, you will diminish the value greatly.

 

You may want to join the Luger forum, those guys will know about the markings on the pistol if they are from some sort of agency.

 

 

Another question does any one know about the legality of getting a reproduction stock for it. According to the ATF I believe it is legal, but what about in NJ?

Not sure about NJ, but I think they are legal (and this applies federally as well) IF IT WAS MADE TO ACCEPT ONE ORIGINALLY, don't try to put one on it if it didn't come that way out of the factory.

Not sure about NJ, but I think they are legal (and this applies federally as well) IF IT WAS MADE TO ACCEPT ONE ORIGINALLY, don't try to put one on it if it didn't come that way out of the factory.

It was made to accept one originally. It has the grove that the stock slides on too, just can not really see it in the picture.

That luger looks strange.The front sight is not in the right place on the barrel and there is no rear sight ramp. I would say that those are someones initials engraved on there. It looks like they are engraved and not stamped. It was probably marked in those 2 spots because those 2 parts seperate from each other.