>Over a year later, I finally got around to asking my mother if she
>remembered what happened to this gun. Turns out my grandfather had
>several guns (and he did not keep any of them in a desk drawer;
>there was a scrupulously-maintained gun safe) but he sold all of them
>to a collector when he moved to Australia circa 1970. So the family
>Luger escaped the fire after all, and may well still be out there
>somewhere.

Yay!

Lucky he didn't take it to Australia, too. That was still legal in the '70s, as far as I know, but it would've ended up being turned into a manhole cover 20 years later.

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