This malfunction with under-powered cartridges does occur with Browning-type and other pistol designs as well, but the Luger is sensitive to cartridges other than the brass-cased ammunition which it was designed to use. This results in the breech block either not clearing the top cartridge of the magazine or becoming jammed open on the cartridge's base. This mechanism works well for higher-pressure cartridges, but cartridges loaded to a lower pressure can cause the pistol to malfunction because they do not generate enough recoil to work the action fully. The entire sequence occurs in a fraction of a second. The toggle and breech assembly then travel forward under spring tension and the next round is loaded from the magazine into the chamber. The barrel strikes the frame and stops its rearward movement, but the toggle assembly continues moving, bending the knee joint, extracting the spent casing from the chamber, and ejecting it. The toggle strikes a cam built into the frame, causing the knee joint to hinge and the toggle and breech assembly to unlock. After a round is fired, the barrel and toggle assembly travel roughly 13 mm (0.5 in) rearward due to recoil, both locked together at this point. The Luger has a toggle-lock action which uses a jointed arm to lock, as opposed to the slide actions of many other semi-automatic pistols. The pistol has been used in fictional works by many villainous characters over the past several decades because of its association with Nazi Germany.Д¬utaway drawing of the Luger pistol from Georg Luger's 1908 9mm. The P.08 was introduced in 7.65mm Parabellum, though it is notable for being the pistol for which the 9Г—19mm Parabellum cartridge was developed, also known as the 9Г—19mm Luger. The Luger is well known from its use by Germans during World War I and World War II, along with the interwar Weimar Republic and the postwar East German Volkspolizei. The Model 08 was eventually succeeded by the Walther P38. In German Army service, it was adopted in modified form as the Pistol Model 1908 (P08) in caliber 9Г—19mm Parabellum. The first Parabellum pistol was adopted by the Swiss army in May 1900.

Later versions included the Pistol Parabellum Model 1908 or P08 which was produced by DWM and other manufacturers such as W+F Bern, Krieghoff, Simson, Mauser, and Vickers. The first production model was known as the Modell 1900 Parabellum. The design was first patented by Georg Luger as an improvement upon the Borchardt Automatic Pistol and was produced as the Parabellum Automatic Pistol, Borchardt-Luger System by the German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM).

The Pistole Parabellum-or Parabellum-Pistole ( Pistol Parabellum), commonly known as just Luger -is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol produced in several models and by several nations from 1898 to 1948. Luger pistol, in this instance a regulation Wehrmacht model.Дeutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, Imperial Arsenals of Erfurt, Simson, Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik, Mauser, Vickers Ltd (final assembly only), Waffenfabrik BernДЈ50вЂ“400 m/s (1148вЂ“1312 f/s) (9mm, 100 mm short barrel)ДЁ-round detachable box magazine, 32-round detachable drum

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