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Walther (Ulm) tends to cater to the police and military market. Civilian sales always seemed to be an afterthought with the products that were coming out of the Ulm plant.

How many police and military agencies are switching to hammer fired pistols lately? Compare that number to the number of agencies switching to striker fired pistols.

I can't say I blame them. It is the market that they cater to, and until demand for hammer fired pistols rises in that market, I wouldn't expect anything hammer fired from the Ulm plant.

 

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And it probably was not the first.

The earliest one I know of was the Roth-Steyr 1907.

They've been around for a while. It was one of the first semi-automatic pistols to be adopted by a military.