Each type and sub-type of Model 9 has a separate and distinct appeal. These changes provide today's collector with a rich variety of collecting options. During this time the designers and engineers at Walther were continually making changes to the pistol's original design in order to improve the little gun's function, market appeal, and ease of manufacture. The Walther Model 9 vest pocket pistol was a very successful design that was manufactured for over two decades. The Walther PP (Polizei Pistole) occupies a significant place in firearms history as the first commercially successful double-action semiauto pistol. Available in.22Lr.25 ACP.32 ACP and.380 ACP. A number of companies have manufacured PP series pistols. As a result, in 1952, Walther licensed production of the PP series pistols to a French company, Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, also known as Manurhin. For several years following the war, the Allied powers forbade any manufacture of weapons in Germany. The PP is the 'police pistol', the PPK is 'Police pistol, Kriminal' which was a smaller, shorter model that came under GCA 1968 and could no longer be imported, and the PPK/s is the 'police pistol,kriminal special' which has a pp frame with a ppk top. Walther produced their pistols in Germany, France,(Manhurin), and from 1986 to 2001,were produced BY Interarms in Alexandria Va.
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