Luger Shooting Failures

[azlaw]

How many people here have actually experienced or seen in person serious shooting failures in person that involved a Luger? By "serious", I mean blown up gun, or major part broken, or full auto firing, or some other dangerous or catastrophic failure.

I ask the question because another post said something that you always hear, which is old guns must be treated carefully because they are old and basically may blow up. My question is: does this really happen to Lugers in real life? Has anyone actually seen a Luger fail drastically because it was old?

I expect that there have been numerous accidents involving overloads or squibs, but these occur in all guns, usually due to careless reloading. Likewise, barrel blockages are common, but again not limited to old guns. I have seen a few of these in person, fortunately the shooter was never seriously injured - the guns sure were, however - but I have not seen a serious failure that I attributed to the age of the gun.

H