{"id":25863,"date":"2024-11-20T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/p99-the-pistol-that-rejuvenated-walther\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:01:04","slug":"p99-the-pistol-that-rejuvenated-walther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/p99-the-pistol-that-rejuvenated-walther\/","title":{"rendered":"P99: The Pistol that Rejuvenated Walther"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mo6duQSFmWc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>For a couple decades after World War Two, Walther survived on legacy designs &#8211; the PP\/PPK and P38 (eventually made with an aluminum frame as the P4) primarily. In the 1970s they developed the P5 for German police use, and this was a reasonably successful pistol, but expensive and complex. Something more modern was needed to keep the company relevant in the market. The first attempt was an all-steel Browning style pistol, the P88. This was put into production, but was never very popular. Next was an attempt to recreate the PP in 9&#215;19 with a locked breech, the PP90. This was a complete failure, never getting past prototype stage. And by this time the company was essentially bankrupt, and was put up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>German airgun manufacturer Umarex came to the rescue, wanting to see a historic German company remain underGerman ownership. They purchased the firm, and a new R&#038;D effort led to the release of the P99 in 1996. This was a truly cutting edge pistol at the time, with a polymer frame, interchangeable backstraps (the first production pistol of its type to have this feature), ambidextrous controls , and a remarkably good DA\/SA striker firing system with a decocking button. With company manager Wulf-Heinz Pflaumer putting a preproduction example into the hands of James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in &#8220;Tomorrow Never Dies&#8221;, the gun got off to a hot start, and proved very successful, rescuing the company from financial disaster. <\/p>\n<p>Over about 25 years of production it was licensed to several additional manufacturers (including S&#038;W and Radom), made in a variety of colors, trigger styles, and calibers, and not finally discontinued until 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv For a couple decades after World War Two, Walther survived on legacy designs &#8211; the PP\/PPK and P38 (eventually made with an aluminum frame as the P4) primarily. In the 1970s they developed the P5 for German police use, and this was a reasonably&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/p99-the-pistol-that-rejuvenated-walther\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P99: The Pistol that Rejuvenated Walther<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}