The two-piece black plastic grips have the shows “.22 lg.” (“lg.”is a german appreviation for “lang”, which means long). Magazines show the Walther-banner at the bottom of the right side and the caliber stamped on the left. 22 has a round knob which can be depressed to make loading cartridges easier.īoth types have a black finger rest to support the ring finger and pinky. 22 versions have only a single hole in the right side. Have six holes drilled in the flanks, whereas the. The magazines of the models differ somewhat. The connector runs externally on the right side of the frame, beneath the right grip plate.īoth versions of the TP have magazines for six cartridges.
Through which the rearmost projection of the two-piece firing pin protrudes to indicate when the gun is cocked. The bolt has a hole drilled in its upper portion Portion of which additionally serves as a backstop for the striker spring. Identical to the Modell 9, the slide is held on the frame by a dumbbell- shaped bolt at the rear, the upper
The ejector is positioned on the left side of the breech block behind the magazine well. The extractor is an L- shaped piece of steel positioned in a drilled space on the right side of the frame, so that it sits beside the striker. The guide rod itself is encased by a thinner and shorter spring and located within the The cross bar serves to compress the recoil spring and the guide rod protrudes from the hole during recoil. It has two arms that extend forward from the breech block on either side and meet in a cross bar with a hole drilled into The slide features 14 fine triangular-cut slide Down is the fire position and up is the safe position. Theĩ0-degree-turn lever directly blocks the striker. One of the most obvious changes is that the saftey lever is moved to the left side of the slide. The gun looks somewhat like an over-sized Modell 9 with the same straight clean lines, but a little more streamlined. The TP was introduced in 1961 as the first Walther vest pocket pistol of the post WWII era and was produced in a. Isn’t broke don’t fix it,” the design of the Model TP (Taschenpistole or pocket pistol) is more or less the same as the very Walther started thinking about the production of a new vest pocket pistol for the civilian market.
But not only the military market prospered, so Only several months later more than 10,000 P1 pistols had left the factory. P38 pistol which was adopted as the new service pistol P1 for the Bundeswehr. The deployment of the German Military (Bundeswehr) led to a great demand for service pistols. In 1953 the first parts for postwar PP and PPK pistols left the factory. Restrictions were eased, Walther prospered and only a few years later the production of. He founded a new factory in Ulm, and in December 1950 the first Walther airguns left the factory and were very successful. But guns were closest to Walther’s heart and there were no restrictions on airguns, so he soon began
Walther was not allowed to produce firearms. Due to legal restrictions by the High Commission for Occupied Germany (HICOG), Fritz Niederstotzingen, where he manufactured calculating machines. Despite this, Fritz Walther decided to stay in Germany and moved to Heidenheim, then later to At the end of WWII the Russians took over the Walther Factory in Zella- Mehlis and confiscated all the machinery.
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