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Well, Liberty Lovers; once again our government is playing games. I was tired of hearing about who the winner and the loser was over the budget battle. There was only one loser, the American public. Folks, we have to hold our leadership to a higher standard. We must get these friggin’ jokers out of there and elect people who are willing to sacrifice their next term in office to effect real change.
Let’s get to some fun stuff, The Fire Arm of the Week. The only thing cooler would be to have one of BillyBob’s smoking hot beauties pose with one of these bad boys.
The Walther P38 is a 9 mm pistol that was developed by Walther as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the costly Luger P08. The P38 was designed in 1938 and was manufactured from 1939 until 1945.
The pistol was the first double action combat handgun and was produced during the war by Walther, Mauser, and Spreewerk. British Special Forces often used captured P-38s due to their reliability.
The P38 uses a double action trigger design similar to that of the earlier Walther PPKs, and had a loaded chamber indicator. The P38 was the first locked-breech pistol to use a double-action trigger. The shooter could load a round into the chamber, use the de-cocking lever to safely lower the hammer without firing the round, and carry the weapon loaded with the hammer down. A pull of the trigger, with the hammer down, fired the first shot and the operation of the pistol ejected the fired round and reloaded a fresh round into the chamber. These are features found on most modern semi-automatic pistols. The P38 was ahead of its time when produced nearly 70 years ago.
The P38 and its variants have been used by military and law enforcement around the world. Excellent examples of the P38 are available today for collecting. You can find P38’s in the $600 to $1,000 range. If you can find an original holster it would add much to the value of your collection. After market holsters are readily available.
My P38 was manufactured in 1941 by Walther. You can see the markings on the left side of the weapon. Look carefully at the second picture and you can see the Nazi Waffenmant marks. These are proof marks that indicated the weapon was inspected and often tells what branch of the military the weapon was designed for. You find Waffenmant marks on almost every German military weapon manufactured from the mid-1930s to mid-1940’s.
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