Walter ppk 380
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Yea I know a new one you can't get but a use one is different . I seen two for sale in Calif one in a gun shop in Livermore and another I am serious looking at from my ffl
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So the roster compliance issue is only for store sales. If its a Private Party sale that is owned in CA, then you can buy almost any gun roster or not.
Also, PP sales are also not bound by the 1 in 30 scheme (although that is now moot with the latest 9th circuit ruling). Last year I got 3 pistols in one transfer...WOOHOO!
Also, PP sales are also not bound by the 1 in 30 scheme (although that is now moot with the latest 9th circuit ruling). Last year I got 3 pistols in one transfer...WOOHOO!
That exactly what I didn’t know so that the rule thanks so much for clarifying this to me makes sense now I understand. The one in the store I seen was really an old one maybe that’s considered an antique . But thanks again for clearing this up for me have a great day
A little story about my Walther PPKS. I purchased it new, early in my law enforcement career. After retirement, I went through an ugly divorce, and my ex wanted my entire gun collection, as a way to hurt me. She really wanted the Colt Python, but I had a sales receipt showing I purchased it a week before my marriage, so she could not touch it.
My Walther was the only gun she could demand, but it had lots of sentimental value since I wore it in an ankle holster for 20 years. Well, yup, she got it, but I never released the magazines, so it was unshootable for her, since extra mags were hard to find. A year later, she was hurting for money, so I offered her $1000 for my gun back, but she sold it to some gangster in Texas for $100. This ripped me to the core. I wanted to buy a replacement, but being retired, I am no longer able to purchase a new one.
My Walther was the only gun she could demand, but it had lots of sentimental value since I wore it in an ankle holster for 20 years. Well, yup, she got it, but I never released the magazines, so it was unshootable for her, since extra mags were hard to find. A year later, she was hurting for money, so I offered her $1000 for my gun back, but she sold it to some gangster in Texas for $100. This ripped me to the core. I wanted to buy a replacement, but being retired, I am no longer able to purchase a new one.
The most sought after, desirable, valuable, and collectable ones, if they are in good original condition, are the original German ones made during the WW2 or earlier period. I'd really love to have one of the ones with the Nazi eagle emblem in the grips.....saw one in a gun shop years ago that was very reasonably priced, but the gun was in poor external condition with lots of external pitting
After that would be the post-war pre-68 Gun Control Act ones made in France and Germany.
Here are some I've seen on some of the sites I am a member of:
This is the one I really would like to have:
https://smith-wessonforum.com/threa...-400-reduced-6-23-2025.741817/#post-142269618
https://www.akfiles.com/forums/threads/1968-german-walther-ppk-380.574837/
https://www.akfiles.com/forums/threads/walther-ppk-stainless-380-acp.573161/
Sorry you loss you gun maybe one day you will found one in a transfer good luck my friend
KonoctisWigwam
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You can buy them through private party, shouldn't be hard to get an LEO to buy one and sell it to you at $3k markup...LEOs are exempt from the handgun roster.
I've heard that if the law changes, we might be able to go to NV or AZ and buy firearms and bring them back over the border. We can't do that now, but that could change soon.
The PPK is without a doubt the most sexy handgun made, IMO. It feels so nice and compact, and just the best CCW handgun to exist, IMO.
I have a few 1911s that I could convert to 10mm, but that Glock 29 is very compact.
KonoctisWigwam
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That there is criminal in itself. I just spoke to my wife today, she wants to get divorced, and I don't really care one way or the other, but she's worried that if she's living overseas and something happens legally to my property, it could present some logistical problems. She plans to quit-claim the property to me, and then we'll do a "friendly" divorce. We both agree, we don't want to be mad at each other, where your divorce sounds like Romancing the Stone...
My wife considers everything I owned before we were married to be mine. She even gave me her grand piano, which I have in storage at the moment.
That is a tough pill to swallow there...she deserves to have her knee caps broken!
davidrolez
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You can't just stroll into a dealer and buy a new one because it’s not listed on the state’s handgun roster. But if someone already owns one in the state, they have the option to sell it to another resident through a private transfer. Sounds stupid right?
KonoctisWigwam
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Well, it gets worse in CA, because many of the LEO were buying handguns off the roster to sell privately. This is a loophole that leaves the residents paying astronomical prices on this weapons, which the majority of people use lawfully, to defend themselves. I have dreamed of owning one since the 70s, when my step-dad bought one...and for various reasons the sheriff in Ventura County told me they destroyed it...which I don't believe. That sheriff almost destroyed our family over this. Magically, nobody knows what happened to a stainless Colt 45 wtih all gold plated parts, a sawed off and choked at 20" shotgun we used to keep under the counter in our liquor store, a Smith & Wesson 38 special, and the PPK 380. The Sheriff says they destroyed all of them, despite the officer knowing they were not registered.
That in itself is a crime for them to have lured my mom with dementia to tell them it was ok to destroy them.
This type of corruption needs to stop in CA, period. Nobody is above the law, not even the law.
