Walther PKK/S and PPK Field strip, clean, and Reassemble plus the basics

Walther PKK/S Field strip, clean, and Reassemble plus the basics. what you need to know. traditional double-action trigger mechanism, single-column magazine, fixed barrel acts as the guide rod for the recoil spring. series includes Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S, and PPK/E. Various PP series are manufactured in either Germany, France or the United States. Since 2002, the PPK variant is solely manufactured by Smith & Wesson in Houlton, Maine, United States, under license from Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. In past, been manufactured by Carl Walther in its own factory in Germany, and under licenses by Manurhin in Alsace, France, and by Interarms in Alexandria, Virginia, US. The PP and the PPK were world's first successful double action semi-automatic pistols and widely copied, still made by Walther. The design inspired the Soviet Makarov, Hungarian FEG PA-63, and Bersa Thunder 380. The PP and PPK were both popular with European police and civilians, for being reliable and concealable. During World War II, they were issued to the German military, police, and Luftwaffe. "PPK" is an abbreviation for Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell (Police Pistol Detective Model), "kriminal" referring to the police detective (criminal) division. Adolf Hitler shot and killed himself with his PPK (a 7.65mm/.32 ACP) in the Führerbunker in Berlin. The Walther PPK pistol is famous as fictional secret agent James Bond's gun in films and novels: Ian Fleming's choice of the Walther PPK directly influenced its popularity and its notoriety. Fleming had given Bond a .25 Beretta 418 pistol in early novels, but switched to the PPK in Dr. No on the advice of firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd. Singer Elvis Presley owned a silver-barreled PPK, inscribed "TCB" ("Taking Care of Business")