What’s the story with this gun you can’t get a new in Calif but you can get a used one is this true ?
Walther ppk 380
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Yes, it doesn't pass muster unless you are law enforcement. Stupid Kalifornia compliance stuff.
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.
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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
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.
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!
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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?
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.
@Havasu
How does it work when you leave duty as LEO? Do you get to retain your ability to buy off roster hand guns? Your ex was a mean lady. I hope my wife doesn't end that way, but my sister keeps telling me she cares more about her cash than mine.
You could still make it happen if you really want to own a PPK again someday, even if you had to buy from a current LEO to buy one for you. With any luck, the roster will be abolished.
How does it work when you leave duty as LEO? Do you get to retain your ability to buy off roster hand guns? Your ex was a mean lady. I hope my wife doesn't end that way, but my sister keeps telling me she cares more about her cash than mine.
You could still make it happen if you really want to own a PPK again someday, even if you had to buy from a current LEO to buy one for you. With any luck, the roster will be abolished.
Once you leave as a LEO, everything goes away. I was working on a great AR build as I was retiring, and was at the gun shop daily. The day after I retired, I returned to the gun shop, BS'ing with the clerk as I had done for months before. I grabbed another 30 round magazine and went to the check stand. The guy laughed and told me "nope" no can do. I had to have my daughter in law (LASO deputy at the time) to swing by and purchase the mag for me. Yes, I have several active relatives who have offered to get me another Walther PPKS, but it is not MY Walther PPKS.
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Yeah an evil Governor in another state tried to do the same to my LEO kid after his firing from a strike action.
He got his job back but had had to drop his law suit.
I thought off roster handguns could be transferred to LEO only. Not to individuals privately. But that’s how convoluted our laws are.
My X got one in the divorce that was cross registered on her permit. It was her grandfather’s. I don’t use the “lost in a boating accident”, I use the “she got them in the divorce” excuse. She got them all as far as the divorce agreement reads.
He got his job back but had had to drop his law suit.
I thought off roster handguns could be transferred to LEO only. Not to individuals privately. But that’s how convoluted our laws are.
My X got one in the divorce that was cross registered on her permit. It was her grandfather’s. I don’t use the “lost in a boating accident”, I use the “she got them in the divorce” excuse. She got them all as far as the divorce agreement reads.
BTW, this thread subject spelled Walther wrong.
That kinda sucks...I have enough AR crap, I'm gathering bolt actions now. I only have 1 or 2 magazines that hold 20 or 30. Maybe that will change next year if the law changes, but I'm not in a position that I need more than 10, to be honest. That in now way means I'm willing to let them take my rights away.
Good catch! I've corrected the thread, but still don't have one of these fine pew-pews!
Wait a second, I could have done that...
I used to rent one at the pistol range that used to be in Milpitas. I once worked at a company named VA Research, which turned into VA Linux Systems, they hold the record for IPO on Wall Street. One of the Directors was a famous author of a book called, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", his name was Eric Raymond. Eric had a 45ACP he would bring with him on the plane, he lived back in Maryland, and VA would pay for us to rent a pistol and they would be as much ammo as we used. I would always rent the PPK. There was another open source guy that also had a 45ACP, but a couple people in the company had 9mm, one guy had a desert eagle in 50 cal. Eric would always leave the silhouettes hanging on the wall outside Larry Augustine's office, he was the CEO. Larry never came shooting with us. Eric would always give you a dissertation on the 2A and how it relates to open source software...one of my friend's used to become unglued when Eric would leave those silhouettes there. There would be like 6 or 7 of them on the walls with groups around their heads...LOL Larry used to get the NERF bullet shower when we didn't like what he said at the monthly meeting. Those were usually outside though.
I never got to shoot my step dad's PPK, but I was once robbed at the liquor store and my step dad chased the guy out in the alley and fired a round off, but his PPK jammed. The gunsmith worked it over, and it never had a problem after that. My parents moved the store out to Agoura CA, and my step dad shot and killed the perp. He was the leader of the gang in Thousand Oaks, name The Little Gangsters...he was only a kid, 18 years old...my step dad hit him twice with hollow points. Once in the hand, which knocked his gun out of his hand, and flung it across the store, and once in the upper torso. He died before they got him to the hospital. FAFO
I don't know. I'll try to be more proactive the next time...Well, duh!
Why didn't ya?
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