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Oddball

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Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

For most things, he also lives fairly frugally.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Yeah.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

So he does have the ability that when he wants to, he can buy something nice.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Yeah.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

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.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Um, and most competition shooters, they, they actually want the heavy.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Oh yeah.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Um, but anyways, getting back to the Walther.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Yeah.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

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.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

whatever Walther called their 22, which was basically a shrunked-down PP.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Like you said, for its time, it was kind of the gold standard of, oh, you want a discreet carry pistol?

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Well, here you go.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

And with the 32, it's rather surprising how...

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

it took most European police departments to switch away from, oh, yeah, yeah, our issue pistols are 32.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

So, you know, especially in Europe, 32 was not seen as the super underpowered weak cartridge that it's come to become known as.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Go ahead.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

And I'm fairly certain that –

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

at least for a time, um, uh, East Germany was, was producing them as well.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Handgun Radio 483 – Cold War Guns

Uh, so, you know, both, both sides of, of the, of the wall through Germany, uh, were, were both great.