THE WALTHER HANDGUN STORY: A COLLECTOR'S AND SHOOTER'S GUIDE

Book description:
Handguns have been around almost as long as the earliest firearms, but the history of effective automatic pistols is only about a century old. In the turbulent 20th century, during which the automatic pistol came of age, the Carl Walther Waffenfabrik grew to become one of the world's leading handgun developers and manufacturers. Although Walther has produced numerous firearms designs and other products, including sporting and military rifles, submachine guns, air rifles, adding machines and so forth, this book is concerned strictly with the company's handgun business, the product for which it has gained worldwide renown.

The history of Walther's early handgun efforts is somewhat confused, due to several factors: an official company history that is as much legend and advertising as it is solid fact; the loss of factory records in 1945; and the company's understandable reluctance to reveal company secrets which, if revealed, might hurt their position in a fiercely competitive firearms business. What follows is therefore a reconstruction based on what records are still available, plus research, conjecture and extrapolation from handguns still in existence.

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