Walther PP, PPK and PPK/S

The Walther PP, the Walther PPK and Walther PPK/S are a series of semi-automatic fist arms, all of which are designed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. The letters PP stand for Polizei Pistole (police pistol) and, as the name implies, the weapons originally designed for the German police.

The Walther PP is designed in 1921 and has originally a .32 ACP-caliber, already appeared there later also versions in the .22 LRand the .380 ACP-caliber. The Walther PPK is a year later as discrimination that he designed and has a shorter barrel than the PP. PPK stands for Polizei Pistole Kurz (short). Both firearms are manufactured in mass production until 1929. The PPK/S is nearly identical to PPK, but has a hand grip that is slightly longer if the PPK (about an inch), to the size of the handle of the ordinary PP. Furthermore, the PPK/S only delivered in the caliber .380 ACP, also known as 9 mm kurz called-a scaled-down version of the 9 mmcartridge. Because of the enlarged handle, fit in the PPK/S as well as many bullets of that caliber as in the PP.: seven, one more like in the PPK. The PPK/S is designed in 1968, because of an American regulations for wrote that new fist arms to specific minimum dimensions had to meet.

Of the three best known designs is the Walther PPK. To date there are more than 5 million copies of produced. This makes it one of the most produced pistols of all time. The PPK is also known as the coat of arms of James Bond. In addition the PPK also the personal weapon of Adolf Hitler and the weapon with which he later committed suicide.



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[hide] *1 technical functioning  ==Technical functioning[ Edit] == The gun can accommodate eight bullets, which are placed vertically in a rod-shaped Warehouse. Like most other pistols has the weapon a metal sled back to the course . By the carriage manually to behind to catch up, the cock tense and is the first bullet from the cradle in the room posted. If the first shot is discharged, the explosion of this shot sure the cradle is blown backwards. De haan is again strained and the opening of your cradle, a fraction of a second, parallel with the opening at the back of the course. The bullets in the warehouse push, by the spring at the bottom of the warehouse, to the empty shell to.
 * 2 Double-action trigger
 * 3 disassemble for maintenance
 * 4 Use
 * 4.1 James Bond

Because the sealing spring pulls the sled back to the course, makes the sled a movement to the front. The cradle takes on his way back with a new ball from the warehouse to the room.

Particular to the gun is that the sealing spring at the PP, but not under the course around it. For this is chosen to make the gun smaller in size. The Walther PP was not the first firearm with a sealing spring around the course: the design was copied from the FN Model 1910. ==Double-action trigger[ Edit] == The firearm was the first semi-automatic pistol that had a so-called double-action trigger . This meant that Daniel did not have to be the weapon, not strained by pulling the trigger, fire off. Have had to be extracted first then the sled backwards, making the ball was placed in the room. To relax, the cock hereinafter referred to fire control to be put on the side of the cradle safe.

The shooter placed the first warehouse in the weapon. Then he pulled the slide back. This made the cock pushed in the rear position. With the fire control cock automatically relax and could be worn the firearm in a holster. When the shooter the firearm suddenly had to use, he could pull the weapon out of the holster and immediately pull the trigger (double action) or first pull back the cock with the thumb and then pull the trigger (single action).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This system has since been taken over by countless other firearm manufacturers, including SigSauer and Beretta. Also the Walther P38 and the Walther P5 work with this system. ==Disassemble for maintenance<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Walther PP can be taken apart by the trigger guard pulling down. By then the sled to the back to pick up, the cradle of the weapon. This way of dismantling is quite unique for a firearm. ==Use<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Walther PPK after the Second World War had a negative image, as it was used by the Gestapo . These agents were carrying the small pistol in a shoulder holster under their coats. Today, the PPK, due to its small size, very popular with secret agents, security guards and bodyguards. He is used all over the world and is also a popular weapon of marksmen.

<p lang="en" len="522" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The PPK/S is little used in Europe, but is popular in the United States, family pension, that the weapon in self defense under their clothes to wear.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Walther PP was also the standard weapon during World War II by the German Ordnungspolizei. The German Wehrmacht used the weapon almost never, because they found the 9 mm-caliber more powerful and better than the 7.65 mm-caliber. Some pilots were armed with a PP, because other guns were found in the cockpit too big for. Adolf Hitler and other nazi leaders carried the weapon sometimes hidden under their uniform. The weapon is relatively little used after 1945.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In movies are the three weapons often used with a silencer. In practice this probably never did. A gun must be an extended thread on the end of the course to a silencer can be confirmed and there are no copies of Walther known this. ===James Bond<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Walther PPK-PPK/S acquired great fame as James Bondpistol. Author Ian Fleming left the British secret agent are Beretta 418, which would function in the story is bad, for a PPK/s. Since then this firearm has become an icon of the spy genre. In the film Tomorrow Never Dies is Bond for the first time with its current firearm seen: the Walther P99. In Quantum of Solace and Skyfall has James Bond a Walther PPK/S.