Carl Walther GmbH sporting guns, Ulm ranks among the most well-known and world-wide leading manufacturers of firearms. With the name Walther and its brand name - the swung "Walther loop "- one connects today above all the production of Selbstladepistolen for the official need, for sport and defense.

The foundation-stone of the company was put to 1886 by Carl Walther in Zella Mehlis, Thuringia. The family business manufactured first hunt and sporting rifles, in particular in the German contactor nature far spread "disk cans ".

1908 began, on initiative of Fritz Walther (the oldest son of Carl Walther), the manufacturing of Selbstladepistolen (model 1-9) in the calibers of 6.35 and 7.65 mm.1929 brought Walther to today popular "police pistol "(Mod." PP) as the first mass production pistol with clamping departure on the market, which admitted 1931 (not least by James bond) world-wide "police pistol, Kriminalmodell "PPK followed. Both models revolutionized the building of weapons and became world-wide popular. In intermediate wartime developed with Walther in Zella Mehlis further, weapons partially pointing the way. In addition belong among other things:

• a self load gun with knee joint catch - today a looked for piece of collecting tank
• the olympia pistol and "the hunter shank model "- the olympia pistol was very successful with the summer games 1936 and formed the basis for the sport pistol development of Swiss company after that 2." World war
• Kleinkaliber Jagdrepetierer - the famous series Walther KKJ
• a new military pistol with clamping departure in the caliber of 9 mm of Parabellum, those become outdated the technically and to expensive pistol 08 to replace should (starting from 1940 as pistol P38 with German armed forces introduced, see below)

With the beginning 2." World war Walther was integrated as key enterprise of German arms production into the wartime economy. Apart from the intensified manufacturing of PP and PPK as well as the pistol P38 the Walther works built also for flare guns, and self load carbines in the caliber of 8x57 IS called one K43. Walther weapons of war production one recognizes AC ", which indicated the manufacturer in coded form by the code name ".

After end of war and escape of owner and staff from Thuringia, Fritz Walther in Ulm dared a new start. In the meantime the French company Manurhin in had continued the manufacturing of Walther pistols under license.

To Ulm the proven pistol series PP, to PPK, were again taken up, supplemental P38 around "the bag pistol "(Mod. TP - Caliber of 6.35 Browning) and "the bag pistol with cock "(Mod. TPH - a mini PPK in the calibers of 6.35 Browning and .22lfB). The newly created German Federal Armed Forces introduced the proven P38 (now P1) as service weapon.

Besides also rapidly the production of high-quality sporting guns came again on into Ulm: Air and Kleinkalibergewehre, the air pistols LP53, LP2 and LP3, the sport pistols PP-sport, GSP (both in the caliber of,22 lfB), as well as the olympic high-speed fire pistol (Mod. " OSP caliber of,22 briefly).

Large and small-caliber hunt repeating cans supplemented the program.

Exclusively for the authority market Walther manufactured the submachine guns MP and MPK (both 9 mm of Parabellum), as well as a semiautomatic sniper rifle (Kal." 7.62 mm x 51 NATO). In recent time the pistol models P5 and P5 developed compact (on basis of the P38 than police pistols in accordance with condition of product requirement specifications of the conference of the Secretaries of the Interiors), the P88 and P88 Compact (both developments of the P38 with doppelreihigem magazine for 15 cartridges), the P99 (piece of polymer grasp, Browning bolting device, double Action Only and/or part-linked up departure system), as well as the P22 (after the model of the P99 as small-caliber exercise weapon).

1993 were transferred the enterprise by the company Umarex to Arnsberg and manufacture today beside defensive weapons mainly sporting guns. Production locations are Ulm and Arnsberg.

Since 3 February 2006 the UMAREX group possesses the rights to use and mark of the sporting gun mark Production, selling as well as service are noticed of Carl Walther GmbH in Ulm.

Related links

• http://www.carl-walther.de
• http://www.umarex.de

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