Tyler,
Different makers were producing sporting guns right up to the end of the war.It didn't take that much "political clout",it just took enough money to pay for one,the makers needed to feed their children also.I wouldn't use the term "stolen",at the time it was illegal contraband. That it was brought to the US is what saved it from being destroyed.Do you know if the "local GI" or his family still have the "capture papers"? Is he still living and able to tell the story of the capture of the gun?
Mike
