Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Military Trials Beretta 34 - Can You Make it More Walther?" video.

  1. When Beretta had to design their first breechlock pistol (the will be M1951) they decided to go with the Walther locking block instead of the Browning tilting barrel design, because the Walther one was more compatible with the open slide design that they wanted to mantain.
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  2. Cost? The PP is a complex weapon.
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  3. Thus having adopted the P38, the Germans manufactured and issued much more Walther, Mauser and Sauer in .32 ACP during the war. For what was the use of a pistol on the field, a simple blowback was favoured over a complex breechlock. From this point of view, to adopta a blowback in .380 ACP from the start was probably the right decision.
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  4. 1) For what's the use of handguns in battlefield, to cut the weight can easily save more of your soldiers' lives than to have a more powerful caliber. 2) in a total war like WWII, workers and tools are needed to manufacture more useful tnings than complex handguns, so a simple blowback can, again, save more of your soldiers' lives than a complex breechlock.
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  5. That's the safest place to put a decocker. Frame mounted decockers only decock to half-cock position. That way the space between hammer and firing pin is open for debris to enter. A slide mounted decocker rotates the firing pin out of the way of the hammer while releasing it, so it can decock the hammer completely.
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  6. The pistol used to kill Ghandi.
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  7. A service DA/SA handgun needs a decocker (that was not the case of the M34, that was SA only). That had been the request of the Italian Police to Beretta. At that point Beretta put it on the slide (92S model) because that's the safest place to put one. The slide mounted decocker is the only one that decocks the hammer completely, since it at the same time rotates the firing pin out of the way of the hammer. All the frame mounted decockers only leave the hammer in half-cock position.
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  8.  @ScottKenny1978  The Beretta 92 too didn't have a decocker in 1974, but it was added later, due to Italian Police request, with the 92S. CZ (that didn't evolve the design until 1992, when they added a firing pin block) only came later, with the CZ75BD. In the meantime, after having experimented many unintentional discharges caused by the agents attempting to manually decock an hammer when still full of adrenaline for a shooting, many Police Departments in the US made mandatory for SA/DA semiauto to have a decocker too.
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  9. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age...
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  10. There had been no stealing. The pivoting locking block had been patented by Mauser in 1911. When Walther used it, the patent had already long expired. Walther own patent (that applied only to their particular shape of the locking block) was submitted in 1936, and expired in 1950, so it was free to use for anyone in 1951.
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