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This means that the barrel and slide recoil together for a short distance before the locking block falls and allows the slide to continue moving rearward, ejecting a spent case and chambering a new round. It uses the same short-recoil operated system and locking mech as the P38. The P5 is a locked-breech pistol and has double-action/single-action (DA/SA) trigger. Walther’s response, the P5, was introduced in 1978. Only around 2,600 P38Ks were produced.įollowing the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics games West German police began the search for a new service police. The P38K retained the same slide and frame as the original P38s, but had the front sight mounted on the front strap of the frame and none of the pistol’s contours were rounded to aid drawing and returning to a holster. While a shortened P38k had been produced in the early 1970s, this was only an as an interim solution.
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The P5′s design evolved from the P38, combining the lock work and dual recoil springs of the P38 (re-designated the P1 in 1963) with a shortened barrel and a full length slide. Walther’s design competed against pistols from Mauser, Heckler & Koch and SIG Sauer.
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It was developed to fit the new police specification for a small, handy pistol which could be brought into action quickly.
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The Walther P5 was developed in the mid-1970s as an response to the West German police’s continued search for a 9x19mm service pistol to replace the older smaller calibre pistols then in service, like the Walther PP.