The advantage of this kind of system is that it decreases perceived recoil and muzzle rise by retarding the slide. 380 ACP is a compact carry gun with excellent handling and shooting qualities.
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When the bullet exits the barrel, the gas pressure drops, and the slide is free to recoil against the tension of the recoil spring and begin the process of extraction, ejection and reloading. When a cartridge is fired in the CCP, combustion gases are tapped off the fixed barrel and directed into a piston, which exerts force to resist the rearward motion of the slide. The most unique feature of the CCP M2 is its “Softcoil” gas system, which operates much like that on the revered Heckler & Koch P7. The CCP M2 is a lightweight, single-stack, compact pistol designed for concealed carry. New for 2020, Walther Arms has chambered its excellent CCP M2 pistol for the popular. These two guns occupy opposite ends of the size and weight spectrum and are worth a quick look, here. I’m personally glad to see the American market is waking up to this “sleeper” of a company, and discovering that there’s something special going on down in Fort Smith.Īt this year’s SHOT Show Media Day Walther was highlighting two exciting new designs that should interest the Police1 audience. I’ve been fortunate to shoot most of the pistols in the current Walther catalog at SHOT Show events, and have been impressed by them. with great interest over its eight-year history. I’ve shot Walthers for decades, and have followed the growth of Walther Arms, Inc. The generous savings are available to officers who complete a simple application and will enable more officers to get their hands on these excellent guns. It is aggressively pursuing the American market with a well-coordinated advertising campaign, and ‒ in a move that’s very important to the Police1 audience ‒ the company has introduced a robust Individual Officer Purchase Program that offers a significant discount to law enforcement officers who want to purchase a Walther. Since its inception in 2012, Walther Arms, Inc.
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The company also had the competitive products needed to compete with other well-established brands, such as the excellent PPQ and PPS series of guns, which have been continuously enhanced with the addition of changes requested by American customers (such as an “American-style” push-button magazine release, and models chambered for the most-American of calibers, the vaunted. With its feet firmly planted on American soil, in a large and modern facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Walther was now in a position to expand the brand’s influence in America. New lifeĪll of this started to change for the better when American-based Walther Arms, Inc. The supply chain was intermittent (for new guns and parts), and the lack of a robust marketing, sales, distribution and warranty network doomed the brand’s chances of gaining traction. The brand rotated through a host of importers in the post-war years (including some who were more interested in promoting their own brands, than Walther’s), and struggled to achieve continuity with any of them. Lastly, Walther struggled to establish a toe hold in the American market. Famous guns like the PPK and P38 were the first Walther firearms most Americans had ever seen, and they defined the brand for many decades. Mention “Walther” to the American gun buyer, and they’ll immediately think of the 1930s and 1940s-era guns that were popularized by novelists, filmmakers and returning war vets. The more recent Walther designs also suffered from being overshadowed by the legendary guns that wore the same banner. By the time Walther developed the improved P88 and P99 pistols (with their rather unusual controls that didn’t appeal to American tastes), the other European makes had already taken all the seats at the American military and police service gun table. Walther’s P5 pistol, then in use by numerous European police forces, was a single-stack pistol and couldn’t compete with the double-stack designs from Beretta, SIG Sauer and Glock. One of the reasons most cops are unfamiliar with Walther is that they didn’t have a competitive service pistol when the “Wondernine Wars” kicked off in the mid-1980s. The P1 team is in Vegas to bring you the newest in guns and gear.