Chapter 7: Walter

Chapter 7: Walter

Speaking of the German Walter pistol, anyone who knows a little about firearms will know.

The Karl Walter Weapon Manufacturing Plant, like other traditional German weapons manufacturing plants, originated in Thuringia, Germany, which established the first firearms industry association as early as 1953. As early as the autumn of 1886, Karl Walter created a small workshop that would later become Karl Walter's weapons factory.

At the beginning, the workshop was very simple, with only a foot lathe, a vise and a casting furnace. At the age of 28 that year, he started a gun-making journey with an apprentice.

Carl's greatest interest was the development of automatic pistols, which was an unprecedented new technology at the time. The Walter family has made a great contribution in this field, especially Freitz Walter has shown extraordinary expertise in this technology. In 1908, they produced the first automatic pistol, the 6.35mm Walter M1 pistol, which was carried by almost every German officer in World War I. In the following years, four other automatic pistols similar to the M1 were produced.

The First World War gave a huge boost to the development of the Walter Weapon Factory, which had more than 500 employees at that time. Karl Walter died in 1915, and several of his sons inherited his career.

Now the eldest son is sitting in Wilhelm's office crying about his company's situation. "I can barely make ends meet. If I can't receive orders, I'm afraid I can only declare bankruptcy." Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

Wilhelm nodded slowly, motioning for him to fully understand. "I want 12% of your company."

"Puff!" The coffee that Walter had just put in his mouth sprayed back into the coffee cup. If the person opposite is not the honorable Royal Highness, he might immediately jump up and scold his mother. This is daylight robbery. "The price given by your Royal Highness is?"

But Wilhelm's words almost made Walter vomit blood. "I do not have money."

"...!!!" He has no money and he is even saying it so confidently. This is taking advantage of the fire to rob, this is being robbed clearly, even the royal family must abide by the rules of the game, if there is such a mess, who would dare to invest and do business in Germany? ?

In 1941, the two major German ordnance companies, Mauser and Walter, launched their semi-automatic rifles almost simultaneously.

However, Mauser's products failed in the competition, and the German army decided that Walter design a new semi-automatic rifle to replace the old K-98 rifle as the army's standard equipment, named Gewehr 41 (referred to as G41).

As a result, its accuracy, firing speed, and operability made the German soldiers on the front line give a very "high" evaluation: Why is this girl's rate of fire so slow? How can this girl's bullets be so difficult to load , How come this girl has to shoot twice, this girl is not oiled...

Because of these tides of "acceptance", Mauser 98K, which was originally going to be further returned, continues to be produced, and the output and orders had to be increased.

Until the Soviet Union's Tokarev automatic system was discovered by the Germans, and successfully improved. G43 was born like this. It is better to use than Mauser 98K, and it can play far away, not worse than Mauser. More importantly, he can put bullets in the magazine more easily.

Relying on pneumatic mechanical devices, it makes its rate of fire faster than G41, although this is just the shooter's own feeling. But its weight is twice as light.

Walter's eyes lit up. These pieces of paper are simply treasures! But he also found a strange problem. This PPK, if he didn't understand the error, should be the abbreviation of "Polizei Pistole Kriminal" Criminal Police Pistol. But what do the numbers in G43 and P38 mean? years? 1843, 1838? 1943, 1938? Immediately, I stopped thinking about this question. Since His Royal Highness has all of them numbered , just use it.

"How? Is it worth it?"

"It is worth it, it is worth it. Thank you, His Royal Highness. I'll go back and complete the formalities immediately and send it to you. "

"That's good." After sending Walter away, he called the Mauser company. However, this negotiation did not go smoothly. The Mauser representative looked lacking in interest, but due to Wilhelm's status he did not refuse on the spot, but Wilhelm clearly saw the disdain in his eyes.