I know strikers are all the rage these days, and I never thought about it until I stumbled across the XD-E, but will Walther ever product another? I'm not talking about a $2K all steel successor to the P5, but a reasonably priced polymer pistol (like the XD-E)?
Edgeman
When most of today's hammer pistol offerings are of a design from over 100 years...it's a double edged sword..are they in the past, or are they the "next big thing"?
Well...how many brand new, clean sheet of paper design hammer fired pistols are being made..right NOW?
There's likely a certain demographic that hammer guns cater to, and I'd daresay that were it not for competition, that pool is shrinking...
To answer the OP's question...
The answer is simple. From Ulm, no. They don't have the room.
Unless they tool up in Fort Smith, there'll not be a new hammer fired gun with "Walther" on it.
And do you really want the BB Gun factory making you a new gun?
Well...how many brand new, clean sheet of paper design hammer fired pistols are being made..right NOW?
There's likely a certain demographic that hammer guns cater to, and I'd daresay that were it not for competition, that pool is shrinking...
To answer the OP's question...
The answer is simple. From Ulm, no. They don't have the room.
Unless they tool up in Fort Smith, there'll not be a new hammer fired gun with "Walther" on it.
And do you really want the BB Gun factory making you a new gun?
Let's not let a good fact get in the way of personal opinion...
Let us visit the P99AS....what some consider the grail of the poly framed world.
There's two distinct camps...those who love the hell out of it, and those who don't care for the DA/SA trigger.
Then there are the few (myself included) who think the package is great, but long for it in SAO, or in layman's terms...give the damned thing a PPQ trigger and be done with it.
Now Walther had a thing with the P99QA, though the trigger is very Glock-like, and completely uhlike that of the PPQ or the '99AS's SA mode. That said...I think if the P99QA had a smooth silky SAO trigger like the PPQ, but with a decocker that completely unco9cks the striker, that...would my everything gun.
Hammers? Only if I'm building something.
I appreciate hammer guns....I really do. But when I carry, I want something easy to use, pull, aim, and shoot if mr scumbag acts stupid.
I ain't got time to fiddle-fart around with a fully loaded luxury car when a simple A to B truck does the job. (Says the guy with a Lexus and fully loaded Eddie Bauer Explorer LOL)
I can break my guns down in about the time it took you to read this sentence, maybe less.
Try that with a 1911
Then again, the 1911 is from a time when men had balls and respect, and those times are long gone...
So my take on the "don't shoot yourself" campaign is that a certain type of cheap, striker fired, no manual safety gun that's marketed to civilians, LE, and now military....being used by thugs and LEO's alike, some of whom only know that if you squeeze the trigger it goes bang and a hole gets made in something....I won't mention any names but they rhyme with block and look like a 2x4 LOL
The bean counters and the department's budget often dictate how much an officer gets to the range.
I'm not saying you or I couldn't have an ND (not AD...how is it an accident???), but with care in regards to trigger discipline, knowing the vector your barrel is pointed, and simply not being an assjack can and do go a long way in not shooting stuff that's best not shot
I won't argue that manual safeties can be safer, for instance on hunting firearms where a round may be chambered for a time before being fired, but my opinion is that a properly carried striker pistol, carried by someone who is vigilant and safety oriented is no less safe.
As far as the heavier DA pulls, it's been proven that with practice, one can master and be exceedingly accurate with them
Don't forget where I said "with practice". The rub is that again, most Dept's don't have funding or time to put in that kind of time.
My dad has some old Winchester .22 that has a trigger that is so light, it takes little effort to fire.
In a controlled test, we were able to fire it merely by slapping the end of the stock, inertia was enough to make the trigger move enough to fire it. Someone boogered the trigger up prior to his buying it. Great shooting gun otherwise.
A gnat's fart would easily move it.
The bean counters and the department's budget often dictate how much an officer gets to the range.
I'm not saying you or I couldn't have an ND (not AD...how is it an accident???), but with care in regards to trigger discipline, knowing the vector your barrel is pointed, and simply not being an assjack can and do go a long way in not shooting stuff that's best not shot
I won't argue that manual safeties can be safer, for instance on hunting firearms where a round may be chambered for a time before being fired, but my opinion is that a properly carried striker pistol, carried by someone who is vigilant and safety oriented is no less safe.
As far as the heavier DA pulls, it's been proven that with practice, one can master and be exceedingly accurate with them
Don't forget where I said "with practice". The rub is that again, most Dept's don't have funding or time to put in that kind of time.
My dad has some old Winchester .22 that has a trigger that is so light, it takes little effort to fire.
In a controlled test, we were able to fire it merely by slapping the end of the stock, inertia was enough to make the trigger move enough to fire it. Someone boogered the trigger up prior to his buying it. Great shooting gun otherwise.
A gnat's fart would easily move it.
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