{"id":8004,"date":"2015-02-25T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/walther-mp-pp-prototype\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:19:48","slug":"walther-mp-pp-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/walther-mp-pp-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Walther MP-PP Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58ij_tjb0YY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $109,250.<\/p>\n<p>During the late 1920s, it looked like the German Army was going to replace the P08 Luger with a less expensive sidearm, and several major German companies developed prototype guns to meet this anticipated need. The replacement ended up being postponed for nearly a decade (the P38 would be the eventual result), and this led to most of the prototype ideas being dropped. The Walther company had designed a scaled-up version of its very popular PP, which was to be called the MP. Only a small number were made &#8211; Fritz Walther himself carried one in 9x19mm, and this example was made in 9x23mm Steyr in hopes of attracting interest from the Chilean military. It is a simple blowback action, quite literally an enlarged PP. In my opinion, it feels fantastic in the hand &#8211; it is curious to consider what it would have felt like to shoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $109,250. During the late 1920s, it looked like the German Army was going to replace the P08 Luger with a less expensive sidearm, and several major German companies developed prototype guns to meet this anticipated need. The replacement ended up being postponed for nearly a decade (the P38 would be the eventual result),&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/walther-mp-pp-prototype\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walther MP-PP Prototype<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8005,"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-8004","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\/8004","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=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15631,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions\/15631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}