Fritz's Enlarged PP

[@JNathanielBerke]

whomever chose the thumbnail and the episode title deserves a raise

[@LAu-zg8cx]

The most interesting story is how Tom gets all these amazing guns!

[@MrSloika]

'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.

[@LugerBrasil]

Lol this title is gold!! 😂

[@Michel-7.7.7]

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.

[@johnblood3731]

That is a beautiful gun. Love the story.

[@stephenbarabas6286]

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

[@jimmccue577]

😂😂😂

[@user-neo71665]

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

[@ethereous]

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

[@thefirstmissinglink]

Yeah that was definitely fascinating!

[@jamesboring6445]

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

[@LS1007]

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

[@watersound24]

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]

One of your best, most information-packed videos.

[@user-neo71665]

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.

[@MrSloika]

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.

[@mcburgerking1523]

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]

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

[@mcburgerking1523]

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

[@gomergomez1984]

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

[@wofwof007]

Fascinating - thanks for the info and great story.

[@CameronMcCreary]

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?

[@Lockbar]

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]

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

[@Michel-7.7.7]

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

[@michaelmusson3593]

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

[@michaelchen8643]

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

[@DavidBrown-wh1ix]

Great background. Loved this video

[@Klassiccycles]

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.

[@billsummy2412]

WOW ,,,, AMAZING !!

[@marcusaetius9309]

On occasion I also have an enlarged PP…😁

[@justhere4637]

*INSERT IMMATURE AND INAPPROPRIATE JOKE HERE*

[@macmccollum6064]

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

[@hhhhhh5398]

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

[@NoThankYouReally]

Ridiculously immature. Love it.

[@Joe-ot5bo]

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

[@dbmail545]

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

[@Michel-7.7.7]

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?

[@littlejimmy7402]

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

[@FreedomsLife1776]

It’s a crime we don’t have GI bring backs from every single war in this quantity

[@johnduchesneau8685]

Is it in 9mm Kurz or 9mm Luger?

[@thomaswhiteman4261]

9 mm Luger

[@headboil]

This is so cool

[@browngreen933]

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?

[@thomaswhiteman4261]

I honestly dont know.

[@robviousobviously5757]

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

[@bobjohnston8316]

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?

[@bobbressi5414]

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]

Sources?

[@bobbressi5414]

@@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]

@@bobbressi5414 thank you.

[@QuasarRedshift]

looks like a Steyer GB

[@chunkystyle]

I have a smaller PP with larger caliber

[@6omega2]

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

[@Za7a7aZ]

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

[@marcusaetius9309]

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]

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

[@daveadock2874]

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

[@Pazaroni436]

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

[@keithmoore5306]

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

[@HeinzBuchler-vg9dx]

To say it clear, it was stolen from Fritz Walther

[@JayneCobbsBunk]

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.

[@rangercal1]

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

[@jackmiller6331]

John Holmes PP...

[@browngreen933]

Should be returned to the Walther family.

[@thomaswhiteman4261]

Only AFTER I sell it ! :)

[@scottw5315]

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

[@thomaswhiteman4261]

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]

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

[@Nijinsky26]

A Documentary about stolen Property

[@ashifabedin]

bigger pp nice

[@test-201]

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

[@csaint6780]

PP 🤣😂🤣

[@rickcimino743]

priceless?

[@remy7009]

Liberated , from a Nazi Supporter

[@juancerdaa.1903]

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

[@oliverstianhugaas7493]

"Taken"? You mean *STOLEN.*

[@thomaswhiteman4261]

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]

Yup thats right, forcibly taken from a murderous fascist.

[@test-201]

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

[@Michel-7.7.7]

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?