Walther

NOTE: This is a used surplus handgun Graded "Good by the Importer. Expect finish wear, scratches, dings, etc... (See additional photos of samples from batch)

NOTE: Only one is available, the firearm pictured is what you will receive. Item has very discreet import marks located under the edge of the slide 

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In late 1963 the postwar military model P1 was adopted for use by the West German military, identifiable by the P1 stamping on the slide. The postwar pistols, whether marked as P38 or P1, have an aluminum frame rather than the steel frame of the original design. A notable identifiable difference between the  P38 and P1. The P1 has additional slide serrations. 

The P1 is the successor of the Walther P38. The original Walther P.38 is a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that Carl Walther GmbH developed as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II.

Only after 1957 was the P38 again produced for the German military. Slowly over time, West Germany desired to rebuild its military so that it could shoulder some of the burden for its own defense. Walther retooled for new P38 production since no military firearms production had occurred in West Germany since the end of the war, knowing that the military would again seek Walther firearms. When the Bundeswehr announced it wanted the P38 for its official service pistol, Walther readily resumed P38 production within just two years, using wartime pistols as models and new engineering drawings and machine tools. The first of the new P38s were delivered to the West German military in June 1957, some 17 years and two months after the pistol had initially seen action in World War II, and from 1957 to 1963 the P38 was again the standard sidearm.