There is a small hole just ahead of the chamber and, as the bullet passes it, a small amount of gas helps prevent the rearward travel of a striated piston that is pinned to the slide. The operating system is a unique, gas-delayed blowback action. Accurate and very fast repeat shots are possible. It has the absolute lowest bore axis of any handgun with which I am familiar, so muzzle rise between shots is as minimal as any handgun probably permits, due to this geometry. The P7M8's all steel construction increases weight, reducing recoil. This squeeze cocking operation may seem odd at first, but it quickly becomes natural, at least to me. One can continue firing until the gun is empty, or release pressure on the front strap to de-cock the pistol and make it completely safe. Hold the squeeze cocking lever in and the P7M8 has a relatively clean, single-action trigger with about a 4.5 pound pull. About seven pounds of force is required to compress the squeeze cocking lever, but only 1.5 pounds is necessary to hold it closed. The striker protrudes from the rear of the slide indicating it is ready to fire and the extractor protrudes slightly from the right side of the slide to indicate a loaded chamber. This part served all three functions.Īfter a loaded magazine has been inserted with the slide open, depressing this lever ("squeeze cocking") closes the slide and loads the chamber. Instead, there was a spring-loaded, sheet metal cocking lever that served as the front strap of the grip.
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The new pistol dispensed with a manual safety, decocking lever and external slide release. In the 1970s, H&K went to work on the design of another pistol of entirely different design, but similar idiosyncrasy, which became the P7. Nearly a century earlier, the German military and police were equipped with a 9x19mm caliber, striker-fired, single column magazine pistol of unusual design and operation generally known as the Luger in the US, but as the Parabellum P-08 in Germany.
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SIG-Sauer contributed the P6, known in this country commercially as the P-228, Walther brought out their P5, which was a modernized P-38 with an enclosed barrel, combination slide stop and decocking lever, while H&K came up with the PSP (Police Self-loading Pistol), later known as the P7. Walther, Heckler & Koch and SIG-Sauer, among others rose, to the occasion and developed new semi-automatic service pistols. In the aftermath of the Munich Olympic tragedy, the German police forces decided that they finally needed to retire the complex and fragile P38 pistol.