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Take a Walther PP, give it a two-stage trigger (with the first stage located on the front of the grip), make it a gas-piston operated, striker-fired 9mm and what do you get? Well, if you have been following along at home with your scorecards you may have figured it out it’s the HKP7.    When this gun was first introduced it was one of the most unique handgun designs out there and since then it has inspired a simmering love-hate relationship in the gun community lasting for almost 40-years.
Why it was created

German police for much of the 20th Century used very innovative pistol designs. Indeed, the “PP” in Walther PP stands for Polizeipistole (Police Pistol) and by the 1970s, their stock of Walther PP/PPK/P1 pistols, in the hands of the dozens of large law enforcement agencies across the capitalist side of the country, were wearing out. In response, the West German government held a series of trials for local gun makers to submit replacement guns and Walther, Sauer, and Heckler and Koch all came up with guns that met the design specifics (enhanced safety features, chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum, etc.). The Germans gave the Walther design the designation P5; the Sauer made gun (a license built version of the SIG P225) the P6, and the HK gun the P7.

And the HK P7 met all of the requirements and then some.
Read the rest in my column at GUNS.com ( i checked the link this time Aron!)