Luger Rifles and Pistols for the United States?

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Luger weapons came close to being adopted by the United States military on at least two separate occasions. The Army pistol trials of the .45 ACP Luger are well known, but Luger also submitted a rifle (Model 1893/1894) to the 1894 Navy rifle trials that was so well received it seems to have been the initial favorite over the M1895 Lee Navy that went on to see adoption. Notably, Luger did well despite his weapons often failing to meet government specifications in one way or another, although it was usually an improvement over the original specification as a result of things such as using a rimless 6 mm round in the Navy rifle trials and faster burning European powder in the Army pistol trials. Might it have been possible for Luger to have seen both a rifle and a pistol adopted by the United States military?
 
Even if Browning somehow made a dud from the 1911 design, the Savage .45 would have still won over the .45 Luger.

For rifles, the 6mm cartridge was just too far ahead of its time, the double base powder was just too 'hot', and barrel alloy not able to hold up against erosion, and the polygonal rifling made things worse, just as the Brits found out with MkI Cordite.

Having the first series of bullets with mild steel jackets, not copper also didn't help. 112grains at 2500 fps was impressive for the 1890s

The Luger would have still probably had barrel erosion issues, just like the Lee.
The only real fix was DuPont's IMR Powder that came out in the '20s, a Single Base (Nitrocellulose) powder with dinitrotoluene, a burn rate modifier, and diphenylamine as stabilizer. sticks were Graphite coated, as well.
That's what was needed to have small bore, high speed rounds from being 'barrel burners'
 
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