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The Heckler & Koch VP9 (known as SFP9 in Europe and Canada) is a polymer-framed semi-automatic striker-fired handgun. The VP designation in the name refers to Volkspistole , which translates to "people's pistol" [ 4 ] while SFP stands for "striker-fired pistol". [ 5 ]
The HK P9 is a semi-automatic pistol from Heckler & Koch in 9×19mm Parabellum, .45 ACP, and 7.65×21mm Parabellum and the first to use a variation of H&K's roller delayed blowback system in a pistol format and polygonal rifling [1] now common in H&K designs.
Heckler & Koch was founded in 1949 by former Mauser engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel, who founded the company out of the shuttered Mauser factory in Oberndorf. [2] The company initially produced machine tool and metal parts until 1956 when, in response to a Bundeswehr contract for a new service rifle , HK developed the ...
A Wonder Nine is a semi-automatic pistol chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum with a staggered column magazine and a double-action trigger for at least the first shot.. The term was coined by firearms author Robert Shimek, and became popular in American firearm-related magazines during the 1980s and 1990s by those advocating their use by police forces.
Further improvements include serrations on the front of the slide, a standard Picatinny rail for mounting accessories, and a barrel O-ring for more consistent lock-up of the slide and barrel as found on higher-end Heckler & Koch models such as the full-size USP Match, Expert and Elite, the Mark 23 and the SFP9/VP9 OR Match.
More recently in 2010, Justin Collison, the son of a Sanford Police Department lieutenant, assaulted a homeless black man outside a bar, and officers who responded to the scene released Collison without charges. After a video of the incident surfaced, Collison eventually surrendered to police. The police chief at the time was ultimately forced into
2008 Heckler & Koch Military and LE brochure; HKPro page on the P30; Home Page of HK USA, which has a link to the P30 and P30L; Modern Firearms - Heckler & Koch HK P30 pistol (Germany) Reports on a Heckler & Koch P30 9x19mm Parabellum endurance test over 91,322 rounds conducted by pistol-training.com Archived 17 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
VP9 is a video compression standard being developed by Google. VP9 or VP-9 may also refer to: VP-9, Patrol Squadron 9, a U.S. Navy patrol squadron; Heckler & Koch VP9, a German polymer-framed striker-fired pistol; Brügger & Thomet VP9, a Swiss integrally-suppressed bolt-action pistol with the design based on the Welrod