which jeopardized and then ended the incredibly successful partnership between Interarms and Walther dating back to 1962. So this was an awkward time to introduce a new gun. Walther was its ...

In the 1990s, Interarms, a firearms importer based in Alexandra, Va., sought a new handgun manufacturers to replace the Walther PP and PPK, which it was possibly going to lose as one of its lines.

Walther developed the PPKS in the late 1960s to comply with the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968. From the 1980s to 2002 the PPKS was made by Interarms, but from 2002 to the early 2010s they were made ...