Editing Luger pistol (section)

=== U.S. trials ===
In 1901, DWM sent two Lugers to the United States, who were also interested in a semi-automatic pistol.{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=15}} After doing well in testing, a total of 1,000 pistols and 200,000 rounds were purchased for use by the [[Military Academy at West Point]], and several other forts. The Luger was unpopular, with most troops preferring their [[.38 Long Colt]] revolvers, resulting in the Luger being recalled in 1905.{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=16}}

In 1906, the United States evaluated several domestic and foreign-made semi-automatic pistols, including the [[Colt M1900]], [[Steyr Mannlicher M1894]], and an entry from [[Mauser]].<ref name=":0" /> This was in response to combat reports which stated that the .38 caliber revolvers used in the 1899–1902 [[Philippine–American War|Philippine Insurrection]] lacked [[stopping power]]. Due to the findings in the [[Thompson–LaGarde Tests]], the military required a handgun in .45 (11.25mm) caliber.

In 1906 and 1907, the U.S. Army held trials for a large-caliber semi-automatic pistol. At least two, and possibly three, Parabellum Model 1902/1906 pattern pistols were brought to the U.S. by Georg Luger for the 1907 trials, each chambered in [[.45 ACP]] caliber.<ref name="DAT" /> Prior to his arrival, the U.S. [[Frankford Arsenal]] had provided Luger with 5,000 rounds of .45 ammunition for experimentation and to serve as a guide for chambering measurements.<ref name="DAT" /> Finding numerous defects in this prototype ammunition (U.S. authorities later were forced to produce new ammunition for the 1907 trials), Luger had DWM pull the bullets of these cartridges and had them re-loaded with a special faster-burning powder in new brass cases.<ref name="AR">American Rifleman, ''The 1907 Pistol Trials,'', (Feb 2001) www.nramuseum.com/media/940450/1907%20pistol%20trials.pdf</ref> Luger brought 746 rounds of this new ammunition to the March 1907 trials with his .45 Luger pistol.<ref name="DAT" /><ref name="AR" /> Two test .45 Luger pistols, bearing serial numbers 1 and 2, are known to have been used in the 1907 tests.<ref name="AR" /> Although the .45 Luger passed the firing tests, it was ranked below the Colt/Browning and Savage pistols in number of malfunctions and misfires, though Army officials conceded that the .45 Luger performed satisfactorily with the DWM-loaded ammunition:<ref name="AR" /> "The Luger automatic pistol, although it possesses manifest advantages in many particulars, is not recommended for service tests because its certainty of action, even with Luger ammunition, it is not considered satisfactory, because of the final seating of the cartridge is not by positive spring action, and because the powder stated by Mr. Luger to be necessary, for its satisfactory use is not now obtainable in this country."<ref>Appendix, ''U.S. Army Annual Report for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1907 (1907)'', p. 89</ref> DWM and Luger later rejected an invitation by Army officials to produce 200 pistols in .45 caliber for further competition against the Colt and Savage submissions, at which point DWM effectively withdrew from the U.S. trials.<ref name="DAT" /><ref name="AR" />

The fate of the .45 Luger, serial number 1 is unknown, as it was not returned and is believed to have been destroyed during testing. The .45 Luger prototype serial number 2, believed to have been a back-up to Serial Number 1, survived the 1907 trials and is in private ownership. Its rarity gives its value of around US$1 million at the time the "Million Dollar Guns" episode of the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]'s ''[[Tales of the Gun]]'' was filmed,<ref>{{cite web|title=Tales of the Gun: Million Dollar Guns|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KycZtUsJmFM|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401054941/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KycZtUsJmFM|archive-date=2019-04-01|publisher=History Channel|via=YouTube}}</ref> recheck by ''[[Guns & Ammo]]'' as of 1994.<ref>{{cite web|last=James|first=Garry|date=October 2010|title=Would you Shoot the Million Dollar Luger|url=http://archives.gunsandammo.com/content/would-you-shoot-milliondollar-luger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604051822/http://archives.gunsandammo.com/content/would-you-shoot-milliondollar-luger|archive-date=4 June 2013|work=[[Guns & Ammo]]|publisher=InterMedia Outdoors}}</ref> At least two .45 caliber Luger pistols were manufactured later for possible commercial or military sales; one is exhibited at the R. W. Norton Art Gallery, in [[Shreveport]], Louisiana. The other was sold in 2010 and remains in a private collection. A single .45 Luger carbine is also known to exist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Investment Firearm – .45 Luger Carbine|url=http://gmund.rennlist.com/luger/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041115220142/http://gmund.rennlist.com/luger/|archive-date=15 November 2004|website=rennlist.com}}</ref>