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Add the H&K P7 PSP to the list of guns I'd like to buy and own.
The P7 is the competitor for the police contracts in West Berlin during the Cold War after the terriorist group "Black September" killed a bunch of Israeli Olympians and managed to cause a shit load of chaos. The West German police decided to rearm themselves with new modern weapons, the P5, P6 and P7 were made by three German Arms companies, the P5 by Walther, the P6 was made jointly between the Swiss SIG company and the German Sauer company, and lastly the P7 made by Heckler & Koch.
The requirements set forth for these three companies were...to meet the following requirements: chamber the 9mm Luger cartridge, weigh no more than 1000 grams, the weapon’s dimensions would not exceed 180 x 130 x 34mm, the initial muzzle energy - 500 Jjoules, and the service life of 10,000 rounds. The pistol was also to be fully ambidextrous, safe to carry with a loaded chamber and be quickly drawn and ready to fire instantaneously. After the dust settled, the P6 and P7 were the two victorious guns, the P7 was safer but was more expensive to manufactuer so SIG won the contract. While the P7 found it's way into the hands of the GSG9 (counter terrorism unit) and the German Army's Special Forces Unit. The P6 and P7 saw heavy use by police forced until the mid 90's when they decided to switch over to high capacity designs like modern SIG's, Glocks and newer H&K's which hold way more then the 8 to 10rds that the P5/P6 and P7 do.
But the P7 unlike the P6 is rediculously expensive, going for around $800 where as my P6 barely scratched the $350 with tax included mark.
So yeah that's the history of the P6 and P7 and why they came to be.
The P7 is the competitor for the police contracts in West Berlin during the Cold War after the terriorist group "Black September" killed a bunch of Israeli Olympians and managed to cause a shit load of chaos. The West German police decided to rearm themselves with new modern weapons, the P5, P6 and P7 were made by three German Arms companies, the P5 by Walther, the P6 was made jointly between the Swiss SIG company and the German Sauer company, and lastly the P7 made by Heckler & Koch.
The requirements set forth for these three companies were...to meet the following requirements: chamber the 9mm Luger cartridge, weigh no more than 1000 grams, the weapon’s dimensions would not exceed 180 x 130 x 34mm, the initial muzzle energy - 500 Jjoules, and the service life of 10,000 rounds. The pistol was also to be fully ambidextrous, safe to carry with a loaded chamber and be quickly drawn and ready to fire instantaneously. After the dust settled, the P6 and P7 were the two victorious guns, the P7 was safer but was more expensive to manufactuer so SIG won the contract. While the P7 found it's way into the hands of the GSG9 (counter terrorism unit) and the German Army's Special Forces Unit. The P6 and P7 saw heavy use by police forced until the mid 90's when they decided to switch over to high capacity designs like modern SIG's, Glocks and newer H&K's which hold way more then the 8 to 10rds that the P5/P6 and P7 do.
But the P7 unlike the P6 is rediculously expensive, going for around $800 where as my P6 barely scratched the $350 with tax included mark.
So yeah that's the history of the P6 and P7 and why they came to be.