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Semi-automatic pistol

Walther PP
Original Walther PP pistol
Type	Semi-automatic pistol
Place of origin	Germany[1]
Service history
In service	1935–present
Used past	See Users
Wars	Chaco War[2] World War 2 The Troubles Lebanese Ceremonious War[3] Gulf War[4] [v] Iraq War (Functioning Telic)[6] [7] Syrian Ceremonious War[8]
Production history
Designer	Carl Walther Waffenfabrik
Designed	1929
Manufacturer	Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen
Produced	1929–nowadays
Variants	PPK, PPK-L,L66A1, PPKS, PP-Super, PPK/East, PP Sport and Walther TPH
Specifications
Mass	665 grand (23.5 oz) (PP ix×17mm Brusk/.380 ACP) 660 thou (23 oz) (PP 7.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 675 g (23.8 oz) (PP .22 LR) 590 1000 (21 oz) (PPK 9×17mm Brusk/.380 ACP) 590 grand (21 oz) (PPK 7.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 560 thou (20 oz) (PPK .22 LR) 635 g (22.4 oz) (PPK/Due south 9×17mm Short/.380 ACP) 630 thousand (22 oz) (PPK/S vii.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 645 g (22.8 oz) (PPK/S .22 LR) 480 g (17 oz) (PPK-L 7.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 450 yard (xvi oz) (PPK-L .22 LR) 780 g (28 oz) (PP-Super)
Length	170 mm (half-dozen.7 in) (PP) 155 mm (6.1 in) (PPK) 156 mm (6.1 in) (PPK/Southward) 155 mm (half dozen.1 in) (PPK-50) 176 mm (half-dozen.9 in) (PP-Super)
Butt length	98 mm (iii.ix in) (PP) 83 mm (iii.3 in) (PPK, PPK/S, PPK-L) 92 mm (three.6 in) (PP-Super)
Width	30 mm (i.2 in) (PP, PPK/S, PPK-East) 25 mm (ane.0 in) (PPK) 35 mm (1.4 in) (PP-Super)
Meridian	109 mm (4.three in) (PP) 100 mm (iii.9 in) (PPK) 110 mm (4.3 in) (PPK/S) 113 mm (iv.4 in) (PPK-E) 124 mm (4.ix in) (PP-Super)
Cartridge	seven.65×17mm Browning SR (.32 ACP) ix×17mm Short (.380 ACP) .22 Long Burglarize 6.35×15mm Browning SR (.25 ACP) 9×18mm Ultra (PP-Super)
Action	Direct blowback
Muzzle velocity	256 m/due south (840 ft/s) (PP 9×17mm Brusk/.380 ACP) 320 m/s (one,049.nine ft/s) (PP vii.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 305 m/due south (ane,000.vii ft/s) (PP .22 LR) 244 m/s (800.v ft/south) (PPK/PPK/S 9×17mm Short/.380 ACP) 308 m/s (1,010.5 ft/southward) (PPK/PPK/South/PPK-50 vii.65×17mm Browning SR/.32 ACP) 280 m/s (918.6 ft/south) (PPK/PPK/S/PPK-L .22 LR) 325 one thousand/s (ane,066.3 ft/s) (PP-Super)
Feed system	Magazine capacity: PP: 10 (.22 LR), 8 (.32 ACP) 7 (.380) PPK: ix (.22 LR), 7 (.32 ACP) half-dozen (.380).
Sights	Fixed fe sights, rear notch and front blade

The Walther PP (German: Polizeipistole, or police force pistol) series pistols are blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols, developed past the High german arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen.^[9]

It features an exposed hammer, a traditional double-action trigger machinery,^[10] a unmarried-column magazine, and a stock-still butt that likewise acts equally the guide rod for the recoil spring. The series includes the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S, and PPK/E models. The Walther TPH pocket pistol is a smaller calibre pistol introduced in 1971 identical in treatment and operation to the PPK.

Various PP series are manufactured in Germany, France and the United States.^[11] In the past, the PPK version has been manufactured past Walther in its ain factory in Germany, also as under licenses by Manurhin in Alsace, France; Interarms in Alexandria, Virginia, US; and by Smith & Wesson in Houlton, Maine, The states. Since 2018, PPK and PPK/S models have been built in Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the factory of US-based subsidiary Walther Arms, Inc.^{[12] [xiii]}

The PP and the PPK were among the world's kickoff successful double action semi-automatic pistols. They are still manufactured by Walther and accept been widely copied. The design inspired other pistols, among them the Soviet Makarov, the Hungarian FEG PA-63, the Smoothen P-64, the American Accu-Tek AT-380 2, and the Argentinian Bersa Thunder 380. The PP and PPK were both popular with European police and civilians for being reliable and concealable. During World State of war II, they were issued to the German language armed forces (officers), including the Luftwaffe, every bit well as the Ordnungspolizei.^[1]

PP Serial [edit]

Walther PP .32 fabricated in Frg in 1968

The original PP was released in 1929.^[one] It was designed for police force employ and was used past police forces in Europe in the 1930s and later.^[1] The semi-automatic pistol operated using a elementary blowback activeness.^[1] The PP was designed with several safety features, some of them innovative, including an automatic hammer block, a combination rubber/decocker and a loaded chamber indicator.^[1]

All members of the PP series share a common takedown procedure. The trigger guard is hinged; by pulling the trigger guard down, the slide can exist drawn backwards past the normal stopping point, lifted clear of the slide rail, and then guided back forward to clear the barrel. With the slide removed the blowback bound around the barrel is free and can be removed as well.

Variants [edit]

PPK [edit]

The about mutual variant is the Walther PPK, a smaller version of the PP with a shorter grip, barrel and frame, and reduced magazine capacity. A new, two-slice wrap-effectually grip panel structure was used to conceal the exposed dorsum strap.^{[ description needed ]} The smaller size fabricated it more concealable than the original PP and hence amend suited to plain-clothes or undercover piece of work. It was released in 1931.^{[ citation needed ]}

"PPK" is an abbreviation for Polizeipistole Kriminal (literally "police force pistol criminal"), referring to the Kriminalamt law-breaking investigation office. While the Thou is often mistakenly assumed to stand for kurz (High german for "short"), as the variant has a shorter barrel and frame, Walther used the name "Kriminal" in early advertisement brochures and the 1937 GECO German catalog.^{[xiv] [ full citation needed ]}

The PPK saw widespread utilize. Adolf Hitler killed himself with his PPK (.32 ACP/7.65mm) in the Führerbunker in Berlin.^[15] A Walther PPK .32 (gun number 159270) was used by Kim Jae-gyu to kill Southward Korean leader Park Chung-hee.^{[ citation needed ]}

The fictional cloak-and-dagger agent James Bond used a Walther PPK in many of the novels and films: Ian Fleming's choice of Bond's weapon direct influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK.^{[sixteen] [17]} Fleming had given Bail a .25 Beretta 418 pistol in early novels, but switched to the PPK in Dr. No (1958) on the communication of firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd.^[18] Although referred to as a PPK in the picture adaption of 1962, the actual gun carried by actor Sean Connery was a Walther PP.^{[17] [18] [nineteen]}

Actor Jack Lord, who played Felix Leiter in Dr. No, was presented with a gold-plated PPK with ivory handgrips, given to him by his friend Elvis Presley. Presley himself owned a silver-finish PPK, inscribed "TCB" ("taking care of concern").^[twenty]

PPK/S [edit]

The PPK/South was developed following the enactment of the Gun Command Deed of 1968 (GCA68) in the United States, the pistol'south largest market place.^[21] Ane of the provisions of GCA68 banned the importation of pistols and revolvers not meeting sure requirements of length, weight, and other "sporting" features into the United States. The PPK failed the "Import Points" test of the GCA68 by a single point. Walther addressed this state of affairs by combining the PP's frame with the PPK's barrel and slide to create a pistol that weighed slightly more than than the PPK.^[x] The boosted ounce or 2 of weight of the PPK/South compared to the PPK was sufficient to provide the extra needed import points.

Because United states law allowed domestic production (every bit opposed to importation) of the PPK, industry began under license in the U.Due south. in 1983; this version was distributed by Interarms. The version currently manufactured by Walther Arms in Fort Smith, Arkansas has been modified (by Smith & Wesson) by incorporating a longer grip tang (S&W calls it "extended beaver tail"),^[22] ameliorate protecting the shooter from slide seize with teeth, i.e., the rearward-traveling slide's pinching the web betwixt the index finger and pollex of the firing hand, which could exist a problem with the original blueprint for people with larger easily or an improper grip, especially when using "hotter" cartridge loads. The PPK/S is made of stainless steel.^[10] There are also blued examples.

The PPK/South differs from the PPK as follows:

• Overall height: 104 mm (4.ane in) vs. 100 mm (3.nine in)
• Weight: the PPK/S weighs 51 g (one.8 oz) more than the PPK
• The PPK/S mag holds 1 additional circular, in both calibers.^[22]

The PPK/S and the PPK are offered in the following calibers: .32 ACP (with capacities of viii for PPK/S and vii for PPK); or .380 ACP (PPK/S: 7; PPK: half-dozen). The PPK/Due south is also offered in .22 LR with capacity of ten rounds.

PPK-L [edit]

A Walther PPK-L manufactured in 1966

In the 1960s, Walther produced the PPK-L, which was a light-weight variant of the PPK. The PPK-L differed from the standard, all steel PPK in that information technology had an aluminium blend frame. These were only chambered in 7.65mm Browning (.32 ACP) and .22 LR because of the increase in felt recoil from the lighter weight of the gun. All other features of the postwar production PPK (brown plastic grips with Walther banner, high polished blue end, lanyard loop, loaded chamber indicator, 7+1 mag capacity and overall length) were the same on the PPK-L.

PP Super [edit]

Showtime marketed in 1972, this was an all-steel variant of the PP chambered for the 9×18mm Ultra cartridge. Designed every bit a police service pistol, it was a blowback operated, double-action pistol with an external slide-end lever and a firing-pin safety. A manual decocker lever was on the left side of the slide; when pushed down, it locked the firing pivot and released the hammer. When the 9×19mm Parabellum was chosen as the standard service round by nearly of the German police force forces, the experimental 9mm Ultra round fell into disuse. Only about 2,000 PP Super pistols were sold to German language constabulary forces in the 1970s, and lack of sales caused Walther to withdraw the PP Super from their catalogue in 1979.^[23]

L66A1 [edit]

In 1974, the British Royal Ground forces Ordnance Corps purchased about 3,000 .22LR caliber Walther PP pistols for members of the Ulster Defence force Regiment. They were issued equally sidearms to exist carried by off duty soldiers for personal protection during The Troubles. They had war machine markings unlike standard Walther PPs. They had black plastic grips, were parkerized and then coated with a lacquer called Suncorite which was afterwards establish to exist extremely toxic and is no longer in use.

PPK/Due east [edit]

Semi-automated pistol

Walther PPK/E
Blazon	Semi-automatic pistol
Production history
Designed	2000
Manufacturer	Fegyver-és Gépgyár
Specifications
Length	155 mm (half dozen.1 in)
Barrel length	83 mm (iii.3 in)
Width	30 mm (1.two in)
Height	113 mm (4.four in)
Cartridge	.22 LR, .32 ACP, and .380 ACP
Activeness	Straight blowback
Sights	Fixed iron sights, rear notch and front blade

At the 2000 Internationale Waffen-Ausstellung (IWA—International Weapons Exhibition) in Nuremberg, Walther announced a new PPK variant designated as the PPK/East.^{[24] [25]} The PPK/E resembles the PPK/Southward and has a blue steel finish; it is manufactured under license by FEG in Republic of hungary. Despite the resemblance between the 2, sure PP-PPK-PPK/Due south parts, such equally magazines, are non interchangeable with the PPK/East. Official factory photographs exercise not refer to the pistol's Hungarian origins. Instead, the traditional Walther legend ("Carl Walther Waffenfabrik Ulm/Exercise.") is stamped on the left side of the slide. The PPK/East is offered in .22 LR, .32 ACP, and .380 ACP calibers.

A Stainless PPK made under License by Ranger Arms

Manufacturing [edit]

Walther'due south original factory was located in Zella-Mehlis in the "Land" (state) of Thuringia. Every bit that role of Federal republic of germany was occupied past the Soviet Marriage post-obit World War II, Walther fled to Due west Germany, where they established a new mill in Ulm. For several years following the war, the Allied powers forbade whatever industry of weapons in Germany. As a result, in 1952, Walther licensed production of the PP series pistols to a French company, Industry de Machines du Haut-Rhin, also known every bit Manurhin. Manurhin made the parts but the pistol was assembled either at St. Etienne armory (marked "Made in France") or past Walther in Ulm (marked "Made in West Deutschland" and having German proof-marks). The French company continued to manufacture the PP series until 1986.

In 1978, Ranger Manufacturing of Gadsden, Alabama was licensed to manufacture the PPK and PPK/Due south; this version was distributed past Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia. Ranger made versions of the PPK/S in both blued and stainless steel and chambered in .380 ACP and just made copies chambered in .32 ACP from 1997 to 1999. This license was somewhen canceled in 1999. Walther Us of Springfield, Massachusetts briefly made PPKs and PPK/Ss directly through Black Creek Manufacturing from 1999 to 2001. From 2002, Smith & Wesson (Due south&W) began manufacturing the PPK and PPK/S under license at their plant in Houlton, Maine until 2013. In February 2009, S&Westward issued a remember for PPKs it manufactured for a defect in the hammer block safety.^[26] In 2022 Walther Arms began producing them over again at their new US manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas and new ones are being shipped as of March 2019.

Users [edit]

See also [edit]

• Bersa Thunder 380
• FEG PA-63
• List of pistols
• Makarov PM
• Pistol Carpați Medico. 1974
• Table of handgun and burglarize cartridges
• Type 64 pistol

Notes [edit]

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16. ^ Hartink, A. E. (1996). The Complete Encyclopedia of Pistols and Revolvers. Lisse: Rebo. p. 368. ISBN978-nine-03661-510-5.
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References [edit]

• Fischer, Thomas (2008). Soldiers of the Leibstandarte. Winnipeg, Canada: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc. ISBN978-0-921991-91-5.
• Hogg, Ian V. (1979). Guns and How They Piece of work. New York: Everest House. ISBN0-89696-023-4.
• Josserand, M. H.; Stevenson, J. A. (1972). Pistols, Revolvers, and Ammunition. New York: Bonanza Books (A division of Crown Publishers, Inc.). ISBN0-517-16516-3.
• Henrotin, Gerard (2017). Walther PP pistol explained. Belgium: HLebooks.com.

External links [edit]

• Walther (Germany)
• American Walther site
• Walther PP/PPK instruction manual
• Walther PP spare parts drawing Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Walther PPK/PPK-L spare parts drawing Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Automobile
• Walther PPK/S spare parts drawing Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Car
• Walther PPK/Due east exploded view Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Mod Firearms
• Walther PP on GunsTribune
• L66A1 on Forgotten Weapons

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