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2 unusual facts about Walther arms


Stephen Anthony Mobley

Mobley robbed the store and shot Collins in the back of the head with a Walther .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol that he had stolen previously.

Vasili Blokhin

Then, without a hearing, the reading of a sentence or any other formalities, each prisoner was brought in and restrained by guards while Blokhin shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25


Beretta M9

In 1984, the trials started again with updated entries from Smith & Wesson, Beretta, SIG Sauer, Heckler & Koch, Walther, Steyr, and Fabrique Nationale.

Carl Walther

Carl Wilhelm Freund Walther (22 November 1858 – 9 July 1915) was a German gunsmith from Zella-Mehlis, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who founded the firm of Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen, generally known as Walther, in 1886.

Gewehr 43

The army issued a specification to various manufacturers, and both Mauser and Walther submitted prototypes that were very similar.


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