![]() From the early 1960s until the mid 80s the Manurhin P1 was available and widely used by police departments in West Germany. The biggest of these was a shift over to an aluminum alloy frame. The factory was passed into the control of the French and under the new management the facility started operating under the name of Manurhin, but used Walther equipment and upheld its quality standards.Īnd so the P38 became the P1, made by Manurhin, with some minor post-war design changes (which I believe were the work of Walther engineers). Well, come the end of WWII, those weapons factories that hadn’t been destroyed during the conflict were shut down, sometimes with their equipment removed and shipped off, other times the entire factory placed under the control and management of one of the occupying powers – as was the case with the Walther facility, where the P38 was produced. ![]() As I noted in a previous review, the German P38 pistol was a very well made and very popular sidearm introduced during World War II as a replacement for the old P08 Luger.
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