Walther ppk ww2 fpr sale3/28/2024 ![]() ![]() in no short part due to its use as the fictional British intelligence agent James Bond’s primary handgun, importation was stymied in 1968 due to the Gun Control Act, which led to the very slightly larger PPK/s (“Sport”) model, a gently stretched variant that held an extra round in the magazine and met the sporting purposes test for import, although production in Germany of even these models slowed over the years as it became preferable to just build the guns in the U.S. Originally introduced in Weimar-era Germany in 1930, the compact pistol was aimed at the European police market– PPK stands for Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell, roughly “police pistol, detective model” in German. The PPK, whose parent design dates to the era of the Great Depression, holds six-rounds in its magazine while the PPK/s, which is a half-inch higher due to a longer grip, holds seven-rounds. Walther says the domestically-made PPK and PPK/s will begin shipping to dealers following Shot Show 2019 in Las Vegas. ![]()
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