Though I predict that there will be fewer old weapons for sale in the future, at least in Germany, because the latest revision of the licensing laws also targets (figuratively) people who kept grandpa’s old WWII pistol or a vintage hunting rifle stored in the attic or basement with the respective license, but never actually used it. I’m not surprised that old Walthers can be had a lot cheaper in Europe, considering they were made here and extensively used by the police and military, so there were (and perhaps still are) a lot of them lying around in attics and basements. Probably a case of “Why update the molds and markings for a product we’re phasing out anyway?” There’s a typical episode described at message 30 on I wasn’t much of a shooter, or a shot, for that matter. Also a brace of nice engraved shotguns that had belonged to a relative who dressed for dinner. You need to throw a hefty bullet to stop one of those on a charge. Most people don’t know this but the most dangerous African animal isn’t the lion, a lazy cat, or the leopard, or even the elephant, which can get drunk and reckless on the fermented berry of the marula tree, but the hippo, a foul tempered brute that can bite chunks out of a truck cab. I used mostly a custom, scoped Mannlicher that was given to me by someone who saw that without the scope I was a danger more to my party than to the bad guys trying to take our skins, and I used it only as often as my bearer advised me was necessary to impress on the men that I could and would use it, And I had an “elephant rifle”, a Weatherby Magnum, for heavier stuff. I’m afraid I wasn’t really a gun collector. I spent one college vacation clearing the crocodiles out of an African river. It is still produced to this day by Smith & Wesson in both. Indeed, only recently have some national police departments discontinued their use and, yes, believe it or not Wikipedia still lists the PPK variant as being in service at MI6.Ī third variant, the PPK/S, mates the larger PP frame to the smaller PPK slide and barrel, and has been exceedingly popular in this country since its inception in 1968 (in response to the ill-conceived and poorly written Gun Control Act of that year). What is lesser known is that the PPK, originally produced in 1931, was in turn a redesigned, more compact version of the 1929 Walther PP, and that the Walther PP was one of the most popular police weapons ever produced. are familiar with the German Walther PPK - a very compact, highly concealable handgun originally designed around the. Because of the popularity of a certain fictional English spy, many people in the U.S.

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