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article · Nov 30, 2025 · Ballistic

Visiting STP Pistols And Karl Prommersberger

Mitch Eckler · ballisticmag.com

Precision is a word you hear a lot in the gun world, and when you say precision out loud in Germany it carries history behind it. The German tradition of gunsmithing stretches back centuries, long before our country the United States even existed. And when you walk into a shop like STP you can feel that lineage in the air. In September I hopped a flight to Germany to visit Karl Prommersberger’s workshop in Kübach and to see, up close, how a modern German pistol is imagined, machined, and finished. What I found was an old-school respect for craft married to modern engineering discipline, and a

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