Germany invented a pistol that proved a quantum leap over anything then currently in production. The Walther Polizei-Pistole, or PP, was the first double-action semi-automatic pistol. Unlike other ...

Introduced in 1929, Carl Walther’s PP (Polizei Pistole) was by no means the first double-action semi-automatic ever designed—several had appeared since 1905—but unlike most of the earlier ...

Carl Walther (November 22 ... In order to generate enough capital to build a new plant, he licensed PP and PPK manufacturing rights to Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, in Mulhouse, France ...

The Walther PPK/S, which I review here, is a variation of the Walther PP combined with the Walther PPK. The original Walther PP is the largest variant with a 3.9” barrel and a height of 4.3”.

Rock Island Auction Company, which specializes in the sale of historic firearms, is offering a factory engraved, gold-plated Walther PP pistol once owned by King Carol II of Romania, who was known ...

Both the PP and PPK incorporated several unique features including a double ... but Fritz Walther set up a new shop in Ulm, West Germany and began new production of the P38 for the West German ...

The P-38 broke new ground in the design of ... responded with a larger version of its PP ... army adopted in 1938 and two years later put into mass production as the Walther P-38.

The pistol wielded by the late Sir Sean Connery in his debut as James Bond in 1962 sold for $256,000 at an auction Wednesday. The Walther PP handgun, which alongside the smaller Walther PPK, has ...