Fritz's Enlarged PP

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • This video features one of the personal weapons of Fritz Walther - President of the Walther factory during WW2. It is a Walther Model MP - in 9mm. It is a prototype that never went into full production. Tom covers the "story" about how and why the gun was made, and then unravels how the gun came to be in the possession of Legacy Collectibles !! We think you will find the history to be amazing.
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  • @justhere4637
    @justhere4637 3 місяці тому +13

    *INSERT IMMATURE AND INAPPROPRIATE JOKE HERE*

  • @Nijinsky26
    @Nijinsky26 Місяць тому

    A Documentary about stolen Property

  • @LugerBrasil
    @LugerBrasil 3 місяці тому +19

    Lol this title is gold!! 😂

  • @JNathanielBerke
    @JNathanielBerke 3 місяці тому +13

    whomever chose the thumbnail and the episode title deserves a raise

  • @stephenbarabas6286
    @stephenbarabas6286 3 місяці тому +30

    😂😂 I'm just childish enough that I laugh every time he says PP and enlarged PP

    • @jimmccue577
      @jimmccue577 3 місяці тому

      😂😂😂

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 3 місяці тому

      They knew what they were doing. They wasn't wrong and I'm not mad.😂

  • @ethereous
    @ethereous 3 місяці тому +12

    the title is so out of left field and im very much here for it

  • @mcburgerking1523
    @mcburgerking1523 3 місяці тому +6

    Can you purchase antique firearms from Legacy Collectibles? And if so is there a catalog, looking for a Beretta 1934 in 380 Corto?

    • @Nick_B_Bad
      @Nick_B_Bad 3 місяці тому +2

      On the Legcy website in the new listings there’s one a complete rig that just listed today.

    • @mcburgerking1523
      @mcburgerking1523 3 місяці тому

      @@Nick_B_Bad Thank you so much I will look into it on Monday, Thanks again!

  • @thefirstmissinglink
    @thefirstmissinglink 3 місяці тому +6

    Yeah that was definitely fascinating!

  • @marcusaetius9309
    @marcusaetius9309 3 місяці тому +2

    On occasion I also have an enlarged PP…😁

  • @johnblood3731
    @johnblood3731 3 місяці тому +7

    That is a beautiful gun. Love the story.

  • @HeinzBuchler-vg9dx
    @HeinzBuchler-vg9dx 3 місяці тому +5

    To say it clear, it was stolen from Fritz Walther

    • @JayneCobbsBunk
      @JayneCobbsBunk 3 місяці тому +1

      War trophies are a age old tradition of victorious armies. I have no problem with the taking of firearms from the factory that supplied enemy forces. I am opposed to the disarmament of civilians but I understand why an occupying army would do that.

  • @LS1007
    @LS1007 3 місяці тому +5

    Great story! Thanks for sharing it. Have a great weekend! 🙏🏼🇺🇸

  • @robviousobviously5757
    @robviousobviously5757 3 місяці тому +6

    so.. that's what it looks like when it's not cold...?

  • @Lockbar
    @Lockbar 3 місяці тому +12

    In the 1960's walther should have put these beautiful giant PP's into commercial production. They would have sold hundreds of thousands of them.

    • @dbmail545
      @dbmail545 3 місяці тому +3

      All it needs is a double stack magazine to be a "wondernine"

  • @MrSloika
    @MrSloika 3 місяці тому +3

    You mention that one of the items taken from Fritz Walther's home was an air pistol. I don't know the full history of Walther Firearms, but I do know that postwar the Walther Company manufactured air pistols. There is a very famous promotional photo of Sean Connery as James Bond holding a long barrel target style pistol. The pistol that Connery is holding is a Walther LP-53 air pistol. 'LP' stands for 'Luft Pistole' (air pistol). The LP-53 copies the lines of Walther's Olympia .22 target pistol.

  • @CameronMcCreary
    @CameronMcCreary 2 місяці тому +1

    I would like to see Tom fire this pistol since it is not a locked breech 9mm calibre; to see how it would perform. Most of the experimental 9mm blow back pistols at the time had a much harder recoil. Even after being ordered to turn in their weapons I can't help but wonder if the Germans kept a few back and hid them?

  • @keithmoore5306
    @keithmoore5306 3 місяці тому +1

    i prefer the AP model myself it could be had in 45ACP!!!

  • @gomergomez1984
    @gomergomez1984 3 місяці тому +3

    That’s a pretty cool PP, wish they would mass produce some for American market.

  • @test-201
    @test-201 3 місяці тому +1

    hey look its a gun from those guys that were pole dancing in weimar trans strip clubs 10 years before they were marching around in leather doing roman salutes LOL

  • @rangercal1
    @rangercal1 3 місяці тому +1

    I would be very upset about the Treaty of Versailles like any other German.

  • @littlejimmy7402
    @littlejimmy7402 3 місяці тому +1

    Anyone else thinking SNL Sprockets when reading this title? I feel like a little girl!

  • @macmccollum6064
    @macmccollum6064 3 місяці тому +2

    Very interesting. What's the significance of the ice pick pointer?

  • @MrSloika
    @MrSloika 3 місяці тому +4

    'Buy the {insert collectible} and not the story', is solid advice. A 'story' is just that...a story. Provenance is very different from a story. Unfortunately too many people think a story and provenance are the same thing. Provenance can add a lot of value to a collectible, but stories are worth what their made out of...whole cloth.

  • @jamesboring6445
    @jamesboring6445 3 місяці тому +4

    Incredible piece to an incredible collection, I'm sure.

  • @Joe-ot5bo
    @Joe-ot5bo 3 місяці тому +2

    your audio is clipping. Turn down the gain or use RX in post to take out the clipping.

  • @hhhhhh5398
    @hhhhhh5398 3 місяці тому +3

    I think the Walther factory in europe will be interested to obtain this pistol.

  • @chunkystyle
    @chunkystyle 3 місяці тому +3

    I have a smaller PP with larger caliber

  • @billsummy2412
    @billsummy2412 3 місяці тому +4

    WOW ,,,, AMAZING !!

  • @michaelchen8643
    @michaelchen8643 3 місяці тому +1

    If I were to make an educated guess on the P3 eight as the selection of the replacement for the Luger, I’d have to say it looks like it’s cheaper to manufacture
    From the other 9 mm firearms like the enlarged Walther PP
    If you look at the barrel on the P3 eight sticking out by itself, the action itself is self-contained behind the barrel, whereas the Walther PP, which is actually very pretty good encompasses the barrel and I would say that would be a much more expensive firearm to make any military Troops, these guns would probably look at the long-term cost

  • @NoThankYouReally
    @NoThankYouReally 3 місяці тому +2

    Ridiculously immature. Love it.

  • @Klassiccycles
    @Klassiccycles 3 місяці тому +1

    I had a guy tell me once, "A good story sells." That comment made me not want to do any more business with that man. A "good story" isn't anything but a lie.

  • @QuasarRedshift
    @QuasarRedshift 3 місяці тому +1

    looks like a Steyer GB

  • @juancerdaa.1903
    @juancerdaa.1903 3 місяці тому

    it's german so the Walther it's pronounced VALTER

  • @6omega2
    @6omega2 3 місяці тому

    The title of this episode. I...I...I just DON'T KNOW, man! LOL!

  • @Michel-7.7.7
    @Michel-7.7.7 Місяць тому

    Fritz Walther. Not known only for manufacturing the most appreciated hand guns of the 20th century but also coaching the 1954 Soccer team to achieving the world cup in 1954😁
    The two may not be related but who cares?

  • @Michel-7.7.7
    @Michel-7.7.7 Місяць тому

    Fritz Walther. Not known only for manufacturing the most appreciated hand guns of the 20th century but also coaching the 1954 Soccer team to achieving the world cup in 1954😁
    The two may not be related but who cares?

  • @Michel-7.7.7
    @Michel-7.7.7 Місяць тому

    The amount of holy grail guns you casually pull out of your drawer is mindblowing. There must be some kind of parallel universe, where's an abundance of pices like that. As a german, who would have to jump through ridiculous hoops, to even think about owing s gun, i'm quite jealous. Never mind, i enjoy your content no matter what.

  • @Pazaroni436
    @Pazaroni436 15 днів тому

    The Nazis weren't stupid, soonest they got hands on Hi power Browning they use it as their gun of choice. The good thing they can only had 1911 as a trophy

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ 3 місяці тому +1

    Such a shame we can not own guns here in the Netherlands..unless you jump through some serious hoops😢

    • @marcusaetius9309
      @marcusaetius9309 3 місяці тому

      Here in Canada you can’t own handguns no matter how many hoops you jump through…..unless you’re a criminal, then it’s relatively easy.😑

    • @Sal_283
      @Sal_283 2 місяці тому

      Vieni a vivere in Italia ,con la licenza da caccia o quella sportiva puoi possedere fino a 23 pistole però 8 progettate prima del 1890,e un infinità di fucili da caccia.Dal 2023 possiamo avere anche quelle in 9mm Parabellum.Saluti

  • @Michel-7.7.7
    @Michel-7.7.7 Місяць тому

    23:00 What's the difference between a 99% and a 98% effing gun? Please enlighten me. Thank you very much

  • @DavidBrown-wh1ix
    @DavidBrown-wh1ix 3 місяці тому +2

    Great background. Loved this video

  • @dbmail545
    @dbmail545 3 місяці тому +2

    What a nice pistol! Does it lock up like a P-38?

  • @csaint6780
    @csaint6780 3 місяці тому +1

    PP 🤣😂🤣

  • @johnduchesneau8685
    @johnduchesneau8685 3 місяці тому +1

    Is it in 9mm Kurz or 9mm Luger?

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 3 місяці тому +2

    One of your best, most information-packed videos.

  • @bobjohnston8316
    @bobjohnston8316 3 місяці тому

    My high school German teacher was Klement Werner and he told us that he served in Army intelligence as a translator and interrogator in WW2. The same guy? Or a coincidence?

  • @michaelmusson3593
    @michaelmusson3593 3 місяці тому +2

    if that beautiful PP ever come available I'm pretty sure it will be out of my price range

  • @daveadock2874
    @daveadock2874 3 місяці тому

    But did the US soldiers find the PP enlarger at the factory?

  • @wofwof007
    @wofwof007 13 днів тому

    Fascinating - thanks for the info and great story.

  • @remy7009
    @remy7009 3 місяці тому

    Liberated , from a Nazi Supporter

  • @watersound24
    @watersound24 3 місяці тому +1

    Frtiz wanted his piece larger and so he made it happen.
    An enlarged PP is what Walther always dreamed of having and so he made his dream a reality

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 3 місяці тому +1

    On that gun list what's #6 -- the 7mm "Steyr-Oester Waffensabr" full-stock rifle? Is that a Mannlicher bolt-action based on the M1888 German Commission Rifle?

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 3 місяці тому +1

    Should be returned to the Walther family.

    • @thomaswhiteman4261
      @thomaswhiteman4261 3 місяці тому +1

      Only AFTER I sell it ! :)

    • @scottw5315
      @scottw5315 3 місяці тому

      Beautiful weapons but using slave labor and supporting the Nazis didn't win them any courtesies...

    • @thomaswhiteman4261
      @thomaswhiteman4261 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes, and when the Germans occupied other Countries they always let the population keep their weapons so that they could ambush their soldiers. NOT! Starting with the cavemen, whenever a person, tribe or nation defeated their enemy, they always seized their weapons.

    • @JayneCobbsBunk
      @JayneCobbsBunk 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@thomaswhiteman4261- Exactly. They need to make the right offer!

  • @headboil
    @headboil Місяць тому

    This is so cool

  • @jackmiller6331
    @jackmiller6331 3 місяці тому +1

    John Holmes PP...

  • @rickcimino743
    @rickcimino743 3 місяці тому +1

    priceless?

  • @user-neo71665
    @user-neo71665 3 місяці тому

    Loved it and its never long winded when its a subject you enjoy hearing.
    Hope you hold on to your pp as long as you can.

  • @oliverstianhugaas7493
    @oliverstianhugaas7493 3 місяці тому +3

    "Taken"? You mean *STOLEN.*

    • @thomaswhiteman4261
      @thomaswhiteman4261 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes, and when the Germans occupied other Countries they always let the population keep their weapons so that they could ambush their soldiers. NOT! Starting with the cavemen, whenever a person, tribe or nation defeated their enemy, they always seized their weapons.

    • @horatioyachapovich6919
      @horatioyachapovich6919 3 місяці тому

      Yup thats right, forcibly taken from a murderous fascist.

    • @test-201
      @test-201 3 місяці тому

      oh noo it was stolen from the guys that enslaved white europeans 80 years ago

  • @bobbressi5414
    @bobbressi5414 3 місяці тому +3

    Even experts perpetuate the myth that the Luger P08 was unreliable in dirty environments. This has been definitively disproven in testing. The Luger is extremely reliable under those conditions. Testing has been done to show the design does a great job of keeping debris out ot the action.

    • @jarleabelhaugeek1217
      @jarleabelhaugeek1217 2 місяці тому

      Sources?

    • @bobbressi5414
      @bobbressi5414 Місяць тому +1

      @@jarleabelhaugeek1217 watch the In Range video where they abuse a P08 by dunking it in mud and firing it. This is just one example.

    • @jarleabelhaugeek1217
      @jarleabelhaugeek1217 Місяць тому

      @@bobbressi5414 thank you.