Cool stuff, Nick. I have a similar WWII GI take-home, acquired from my father in law when I married his daughter 25 years ago. He was the GI...
He gave it to me at a family gathering where I was to meet the extended family, i.e. his siblings and my mother in law's siblings. When he brought it out, one of his sisters exclaimed "why Orv, I didn't know you had a gun!"
"Got it from a German acquaintance in Italy."
"Why, that was awful nice of him..."
He still rolls his eyes over that one. Old Orv walked clear across North Africa and then all the way from the tip of Italy to Berlin. All he has to show for it is a Purple Heart and this old gun.
