Talk:Walther PK380

Discussion

How do you release the slide on this little piece, if there's no external slide release? You just pull back on the slide? Not very user friendly, this gun... --Warejaws (talk) 16:55, 9 October 2013 (EDT)

Yeah, you have to pull the slide back to release it. This wouldn't really bother me as I tend to release the slide on pistols by pulling the slide back anyway. It does mean though that the only way to lock the slide back is to insert an empty magazine (or use a tool to depress a lever inside the magwell) and pull the slide back. I don't really know why they did this, have heard it said that it is due to the fact that it is intended as a defensive gun so it eliminates some of the snag risk, but looking at the rest of the gun with those high sights, a rail, manual safety and external burred hammer I doubt this is the case. Probably a cost/simplicity measure, and also has the advantage that it is totally ambidextrous. --commando552 (talk) 17:10, 9 October 2013 (EDT)

Yeah, that's the way I do it too. The reasoning behind this solution must have been pretty impressing during the design phase. It's probably a sturdy little piece, but the lack of an external slide release is really off-putting to me, even for a self-defense gun. --Warejaws (talk) 17:17, 9 October 2013 (EDT)