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For most things, he also lives fairly frugally.
Yeah.
So he does have the ability that when he wants to, he can buy something nice.
Yeah.
No, but it's also that that one was also built more as a competition gun that, I mean, you can carry it if you want.
Um, and most competition shooters, they, they actually want the heavy.
Oh yeah.
Um, but anyways, getting back to the Walther.
Yeah.
There, there is a very good reason that during the seventies and eighties, there were a zillion, uh, copies of the, the Walther PP, um, or.
whatever Walther called their 22, which was basically a shrunked-down PP.
Like you said, for its time, it was kind of the gold standard of, oh, you want a discreet carry pistol?
Well, here you go.
And with the 32, it's rather surprising how...
it took most European police departments to switch away from, oh, yeah, yeah, our issue pistols are 32.
So, you know, especially in Europe, 32 was not seen as the super underpowered weak cartridge that it's come to become known as.
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And I'm fairly certain that β
at least for a time, um, uh, East Germany was, was producing them as well.
Uh, so, you know, both, both sides of, of the, of the wall through Germany, uh, were, were both great.