>I knew there was something that I had in mind to add to this, and
>since I'm off to see Spectre later today, I realized what it was. To
>wit, that Bond, in the previous one, Skyfall, is issued with a variant
>of the PPK, the US-market-developed PPK/S, chambered for, you guessed
>it, the 9mmShort/.380 ACP.

Which is weird, because the only reason the PPK/S exists has to do with arcane size-and-weight requirements on imported handguns in the 1968 U.S. Gun Control Act, and there is no earthly reason for anyone in Europe - particularly any government agency in Europe - to have or want one. I guess it's because they wanted to promote a product that is still in actual new production, and the proper PPK no longer is. (Doubly strange is that the non-rimfire PPK/S is only made in the US now... and for domestic production they don't actually need to make the /S version, the restrictions it was designed to get around only apply to imports. So they could be making the proper PPK and they aren't. I don't get Walther sometimes. :)

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