Luck of the draw, I guess.Ī close-up shows the factory marks, and that it was produced under license of Walther. I received mine in a box, but the box was not marked "Manurhin" like others I saw. The plastic grips are marked with the Manurhin name & logo at the top, and marked "" at the very bottom. This pistol employs a loaded indicator pin so that when there is a cartridge in the chamber, the rear of the cartridge impinges on the pin where it protrudes from the back of the slide and informing the operator that there is a round in the chamber. In fact, all postwar European-made PP series pistols manufactured until 1986 were manufactured by Manurhin, even though the pistol slide may bear the markings of the Walther factory in Ulm. The French company continued to manufacture the PP series until 1986. As a result, in 1952, Walther licensed production of the PP series pistols to a French company, Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, also known as Manurhin. However, for several years following the war, the Allied powers forbade any manufacture of weapons in Germany. As that part of Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union following World War II, Walther was forced to flee to West Germany, where they established a new factory in Ulm. Walther's original factory was located in Zella-Mehlis in the state (Land) of Thuringia, in present-day eastern Germany. Post war Manurhin/ Walther Model PP.32 cal.
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