After talking to a friend at the local gunstore, I did a bit of digging and found this picture of what could be the new Walther service pistol. It’s obviously a refinement of the P99 — a grip that is cribbed from the Heckler & Koch P30 (but with out the replaceable side panels), an extended slide release lever (if it were ambidextrous, that would be excellent), and a retooled slide with forward serrations for press checks and the like. The addition of the Glock-like trigger: awful — better to stay with the P99’s “anti-stress” trigger. Takedown looks like it’s stayed the same as the P99.
Early reports are that it’s going to have the same ammo capacity as the P99s in 9mm and .40S&W.
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