Look at it from the aspect of the user prevailing (surviving) in a gun fight. It was not because the designer Helmut Weldle wanted it just to be different. Even more so is the background why it is designed the way it is. This may be a good time to share this again. Due to the semi-automatic blowback design which uses gas pressures from the ignited cartridge fed through a small port in the barrel (in front of the chamber) to retard the rearward motion of the slide, the use of lead bullets is not recommended because shaved lead resulting from bullet feeding will quickly block the gas port and impede proper operation of the blowback system. They are excellent pistols and I own 2 of them. The German police did not routinely shoot their PSPs, and most of them displayed external holster wear but very little if no internal wear from firing them. The old PSPs were gone over by HK armorers and then imported and sold on the US civilian market. Several years back, the Germans traded their PSPs back to H&K for a pistol of modern design and production.
Hk p7 serial numbers and dates psp#
The German version, know to most as the P7 PSP was used for a long time by many different German police and military elements.
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This is from a former HK engineer who is a member of the HKPro forum and is an expert on the P7.