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What were you using for ammo? If it was anywhere near in the ballpark of the age of the Luger, I'd look there first -- especially if as you mention 'hangfire'.
Other than that maybe the firing pin is clogged with strudel or something? This could cause a misfire but not a hangfire -- not exactly sure how this runs on a Luger, but cleaning the century's worth of gunk out of the bolt would be DIYable. Quite unlikely that there's anything broke that would require a gunsmith unless there's a very unusual amount of miles on the thing.
New ammo. Could be that it's dirty, but the action moves quite smoothly, so I assumed it was something else. I guess I'll have to take it apart to check whether there's actual damage. Hopefully I'm smart enough to put it back together properly.
Again the Luger mechanism is a bit quirky and I'm not super-familiar since they got banned for barrel length in Canada -- but if you are getting light strikes it will be that the firing pin area (under the bolt) is either dirty or has a broken spring.
To be clear, you did experience hangfire as in click . . . . . . bang? I've never heard of this being caused by anything but bad ammo; not firing at all otoh is probably firing pin related. What do the primers look like on the failed rounds? A light/zero indentation is clearly a problem with the gun.
Aren't all handguns banned in Canada now?
Kind of -- we can keep & shoot the ones we've got, but no (legal) buying/selling (other than to the US!) until Trudeau gets his ass handed to him in the next election.
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