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The weapons market these days is flooded with some of the most sophisticated gadgetry that one will ever find on earth. Everything from AK47 to Saigas and from .44 calibers to Mauser pistolen – you name the type of gun or firearm that you are looking for, it is there for you and ready to be placed into your gun safes. There are so many of them, you may not be as yet familiar with the names and the features, yet they are all there in their shining glory.
Speaking about pistolen and pistool, the German Mauser pistolen stands a class apart over others. These classic short and medium range guns were manufactured in the late 1890s and they came in very handy during the First World War when the German manufacturer had to run multiple shifts to cope up with the huge demand.
Immediately after the First World War, the huge success of the Mauser pistolen brought in large orders from Russia and China and these carbines were exported to the Eastern markets in bulk. China went ahead and manufactured its own range of Mauser pistool with more or less similar features and with some rare modifications to accept ammunition of larger capacities.
Even the Second World War saw a rampant use of these by the German Army and the Allied Forces too. Ranking amongst one of the top orders of semi-automatics, these pistool soon spread throughout the world and found a huge market in the European countries.
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The Eschte pistolen and the Walther pistolen are equally reputed firearm brands and are in equally good demand in the various armies around the world. The Walther police model pistolen is specially equipped for police supplies and is a great favorite amongst some of the major police forces around the world.
The runaway success of these small firearms in the two major wars, have propelled the manufacturers to come up with more and more sophisticated models with extensive safety features and state-of-the-art looks that have etched for them a different place in the firearms world today. Walther pistolen was researched and developed during the tenure of the Second World War and found immediate acceptance in the German Army.
Many other countries went ahead and began production units for Walther pistolen under German license and there has been great demand for these pistols in the police and the major army arsenals. Significantly, Russia has been an important resource for the pistol manufacturers and the fragmentation of the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in to smaller independent countries saw the boom period in the pistol industry.
