Walther kick-started the modern, safe-to-carry, quick-to-action duty and self-defense handgun market in 1929 when it introduced the “Polizei Pistole” (PP). Intended as a duty pistol for ...

In 1929, Walther succeeded in producing a workable single-/double-action (DA/SA) fire-control mechanism, bringing out the Model PP (Polizeipistole or police pistol). The PP featured an exposed ...

an engraved gold Walther PP. The PP (or Polizeipistole) was one of the world’s first successful double-action, semi-automatic pistols. Walther began mass production of the weapon in 1929 ...

Though the films referred to Bond’s gun as the PPK, the actual prop used in “Dr. No,” the very first Bond film starring the late Sean Connery, was the Walther PP, which had a slightly longer ...

The Walther Polizei-Pistole, or PP, was the first double-action semi-automatic pistol. Unlike other semi-automatic handguns of the time, which were generally blocky or chunky looking, the PP was ...

The military command proposed a very simple solution – to take the German Walther PP pistol and create a new Soviet pistol on its basis. The project was called ‘Baltiets’. The design of the ...

The Walther PPK was derived from what was then the Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen's Model PP (Polizei Pistole or police pistol) handgun, which was released in 1929. Walther had been making a number ...

The Carl Walther firm responded with a larger version of its PP (Polizei Pistole), but the gun’s blowback system was deemed unsuitable for 9mm rounds. Walther worked through several design ...

The de-activated gun was used by Connery in "Dr. No" in 1962. Connery, who originated the James Bond role on screen, died on Oct. 31 at age 90. "The silhouette of 007 holding this gun would go on to ...

It is believed that Hitler owned several PP & PPKs, but the pistol he used on ... set alight and then hurriedly buried in a crater. Carl Walther Waffenfabrik initially developed the PPK from ...