I agree that the Germans did indeed us these pistols but it was after they decided to drop the P1.
I am telling you again that the German police forces never issued the P1, ever...whether new or hand-me-down. Here's a breakdown of all German service pistols ever used, since the founding of West Germany in 1949:
P1: Walther P1 (P38 with alloy frame), German Bundeswehr (until 1996)
P2: SIG P210, German Federal Border Guards
P3: Astra 400, selected State police forces
P4: Walther P4 (P38 with short barrel and decocker), BKA (Federal Police)
P5: Walther P5, selected State police forces (lower Saxony)
P6: SIG P225, selected State police forces (North-Rhine Westphalia, Hesse)
P7: HK P7 PSP, Bavarian and Baden-Wuerttembergian State police
P8: HK USP, Bundeswehr only (since 1996)
P9: Walther P99, selected State police forces (Schleswig-Holstein)
P10: HK USP Compact, selected State police forces (Thuringia, Saxony)
Once again I am just relating to you what I read.
And I am relating to you real-life experience of a boatload of people. Which do you think has more value when assessing the gun in question: anecdotes and gun rag snippets, or trigger time?
I don't understand why you are attacking me just for relating to you what I read.
I dislike the fact that you constantly piddle into the cornflakes of other gun owners. You never fail to tear down other people's choices, unless they're steel-framed pistols, or M1As. You also spread a lot of wrong information in the process that is misleading at best, dangerous at worst.
I could probably make a P1 break by shooting nothing but +P+ loads through it for a year, but that's not the ammo for which the gun was designed. Claiming that the P1 is somehow deficient because it may break with hot ammo is like complaining that your Model 12 Airweight blew its topstrap because you shot a few hundred rounds of .38 Special +P+ through it. Well,
duh.