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The Walther P38 (originally written Walther P.38) is a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible ...
Metallwarenfabrik Spreewerk GmbH was a German weapons manufacturing company. Spreewerk produced a number of important weapons and components before and during World War II including 280,880 [1] of the Walther P.38 pistol which was the standard service pistol of the German Heer, and the famous 8.8 cm Flak anti-aircraft gun.
The Walther PP (German: Polizeipistole, or police pistol) series pistols are blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols, developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. [ 9 ] It features an exposed hammer, a double-action trigger mechanism, [ 10 ] a single-column magazine , and a fixed barrel that also acts as the guide ...
Walther P38: Semi-automatic pistol Nazi Germany: 1,173,000 [130] WWII production alone: Smith & Wesson I-Frame (Model 30 & 31, Model 32 & 33 and Model 34 & 35) Revolver
From the M1923 comes the open slide design, while the alloy frame and the hinged locking block, originally from Walther P38, were first used in the M1951. The grip angle and the front sight integrated with the slide were also common to earlier Beretta pistols.
The Germans also provided limited quantities of P.38s to their erstwhile allies, Italy, Croatia and Hungary. ... When the West German army — the Bundeswehr — was organized in the 1950s, the new Walther plant at Ulm-Donau began production of a P.38 variant with a lightweight, aluminum alloy frame that was adopted as the Pistole 1 (P1).
Walther P22: Carl Walther GmbH.22 Long Rifle Germany: 2002–present Walther P38: Carl Walther GmbH: 9×19mm Parabellum Nazi Germany: 1939–1945 (Walther P38) 1957–2000 (Pistole P1) Walther P88: Carl Walther GmbH: 9×19mm Parabellum West Germany: c.1987/1988-1996 (P88 standard) 1992–2000 (P88 Compact) Walther P99: Carl Walther GmbH: 9× ...
The Model 39 employed many features common to the Walther P38 such as a combination safety and decocker that disconnected the trigger and hammer. Smith & Wesson copied the 8-round single-stack magazine as well but added a magazine catch cutout to it in order to accommodate the button release near the trigger guard more popular on American pistols.