Heckler & Koch VP9

Name: Heckler & Koch VP9
Brand: Heckler & Koch

Heckler & Koch lists the VP9 as a striker-fired 9 mm pistol with a 104 mm polygonal cold-hammer-forged barrel, a reinforced polyamide frame with interchangeable backstraps and lateral grip plates, a 24 N trigger, and two 17-round magazines.

Record / hk-vp9

VP9

Heckler & Koch · VP Series

Source verified

Scope note: ID number 81000283, "VP9, 9mm, two 17rd magazines", UPC 642230260207. THE ENTIRE RECORD IS SOURCED FROM WEB ARCHIVE CAPTURES OF HK'S OWN SITE, AND THE REASON IS BOT PROTECTION RATHER THAN ABSENCE. hk-usa.com serves a Cloudflare "Just a moment..." interstitial to every request including robots.txt, which this project does not attempt to defeat — the PSA and Shadow Systems rule. The archive is the already-approved alternative and it holds the whole site: this record's product page, launch release and warranty are all manufacturer-authored pages captured intact. Each capture was checked for content before use, because an archived URL can be a preserved challenge page that returns HTTP 200 like anything else (the Beretta trap); all three are real. The most recent HTTP 200 capture was used for each. NOTE WHAT THAT MEANS FOR CURRENCY: unlike the Colt Government Model, whose endpoint is dead and cannot be superseded, the VP9 is in production, so this record is as-published at 2025-02-16 and could drift from HK's current listing without anything here changing. Re-verify against a newer capture, or against hk-usa.com directly if the challenge is ever lifted. THE ROUTE THAT LOOKS RIGHT AND IS NOT, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT REDISCOVERED: heckler-koch.com, HK's international site, is served normally with no challenge and publishes a full technical specification block. It cannot back this record. HK sells this pistol in Europe as the SFP9 and the string "VP9" does not appear anywhere in that site's sitemap — so recording SFP9 data under a VP9 slug would be an identity claim made by this directory rather than by HK, which is the Colt O1911C-SS rule inverted. That page is also a product-FAMILY page which says in its own words that "dimensions and weights may vary depending on the configuration", and its dimension and weight values are not in the served HTML at all. It would support a genuine SFP9 record and nothing else. THE TWO PUBLISHED WEIGHT FIGURES DO NOT RECONCILE AND BOTH ARE RECORDED. HK gives 753 g and 25.56 oz under a row headed "Weight (with empty magazine)"; 753 g is 26.56 oz, and 25.56 oz is about 724 g. The gap is a full ounce and the digits differ by one, so it looks like a transcription slip in the imperial figure — but this directory converted neither, so flagging one as `converted` would pin HK's arithmetic on the directory, and picking the "right" one would be a repair rather than a record. Both stand, disclosed here, exactly as CZ's 1330 g against 46.5 oz does. Every other pair on the page reconciles: 186.5 mm/7.34 in, 137.5 mm/5.41 in, 33.5 mm/1.32 in, 104 mm/4.09 in and 24 N/5.4 lb all check out, so the discrepancy is confined to one row. The weight basis needs no inference for once — HK heads the row "with empty magazine" itself, the Desert Eagle case. IGNITION IS RECORDED, THE OTHER TWO AXES ARE NOT, AND ONE OF THEM IS A CLOSE CALL. HK writes that "VP Series pistols use a striker fired ignition and a modified Browning operating system", which names the ignition axis in the maker's own words — the launch release independently calls the VP9 "its new striker fired pistol". A modified Browning system is a LOCKING method rather than one of this directory's cycling values, so `operatingSystem` stays unset on the CZ Shadow 2 precedent, where "locked breech system" was refused for the same reason. Note the international SFP9 page publishes "Operating Principle: Recoil-Operated" outright, and it is not used here for the naming reason above. TRIGGER ACTION IS UNSET AND THE NEAR-MISS IS QUOTABLE: the page says the trigger "has a short, light take-up with a solid, single action type break". "Single action TYPE break" describes what the break feels like, hedged by the word type; it is a similarity claim about trigger feel, not a classification of the trigger mode, and treating it as one would be the Springfield Hellcat error. The SFP9 page's "Trigger system: Single Action (SA)" would settle it and belongs to a differently-named model. CAPACITY FOLLOWS THE SKU, THE SPEC TABLE SUPPLIES THE ALTERNATIVES. HK's specification table lists 10 / 15 / 17 and designates none as standard; this record is keyed to the two-17-round SKU, so 17 is standard and the other two are the optional figures HK publishes. The page separately describes "the previous 15-round versions", which is why 15 is still listed. Separate listings under the base-model rule: the 10-round SKU 81000223, the night-sight configurations, the Optics Ready and Holosun packages, and the whole VP9-B line, which differs by a push-button magazine release. Frame class is unset — HK publishes no size class. HK publishes both unit systems throughout, so nothing on this record is converted and it carries no conversion legend. Warranty is HK's Lifetime Limited Warranty, class-scoped to "All new Heckler & Koch Inc. firearms purchased after January 1, 1998" so it covers this model without naming it, and recorded with its conditions rather than flattened: original retail purchaser only, extendable to a donee named at the time of purchase, and valid only on firearms imported and distributed by HK Inc. to an authorized dealer. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: a 162 mm / 6.38 in sight radius, 6 mm and 3 mm trigger travel and reset, a polygonal six-groove right-hand barrel with a 1-in-250 mm twist, two additional backstraps and two additional sets of lateral grip plates in the box, and the $839 MSRP the listing carried at capture.

Reference fields

Manufacturer	Heckler & Koch^[1]
Manufacturer series	VP Series
Firearm category	Handgun^[1]
Chambering	9x19mm Parabellum^[1]
Manufacturer chambering	9mm x 19^[1]
Generation	Not yet verified
Directory frame class	Not yet verified
Manufacturer listing	Listed by HK as ID number 81000283, "VP9, 9mm, two 17rd magazines", UPC 642230260207^[1]
Year introduced	2014^[2]
Manufacturer action label	Striker fired ignition and a modified Browning operating system^[1]
Ignition	Striker-fired^[1]
Overall dimensions	186.5 × 33.5 × 137.5 mm / 7.34 × 1.32 × 5.41 in^[1]
Barrel length	104 mm / 4.09 in^[1]
Weight with empty magazine	753 g / 25.56 oz (HK's own row heading; note its two published figures disagree by about an ounce — 753 g is 26.56 oz — and neither was converted by this directory)^[1]
Magazine capacity	Standard: 17; optional listed: 10 / 15^[1]
Trigger pull	24 N / 5.4 lb^[1]
Slide finish	Not yet verified
Controls	Interchangeable backstraps and lateral grip plates; charging supports at the rear of the slide; Picatinny MIL-STD-1913 rail; polygonal cold hammer forged barrel^[1]
Warranty	Lifetime Limited Warranty on all new Heckler & Koch Inc. firearms purchased after January 1, 1998, to the original retail purchaser only and for that purchaser's lifetime — extendable to a donee named at the time of the original purchase, valid only on firearms imported into the United States and distributed by HK Inc., and applying only to retail purchases by individuals through an authorized HK dealer. Two exclusions are stated: firearms bought by United States military, government, law-enforcement or security organizations for duty issue instead carry a one-year limited warranty, or whatever a valid contract specifies; and rimfire .22LR rifles and pistols carry a one-year warranty^[3]
MSRP	Not recorded

Verification boundary: Published technical data are rounded, may not reflect manufacturing tolerances, and may change without notice. MSRP is not recorded: most cited product pages do publish a price, but it changes without notice and independently of the specification, so this directory has no field for it and the row stays blank rather than carrying a figure that would silently go stale.

Evidence tiers backing this record: Manufacturer. Unmarked values come from manufacturer documentation; any value drawn from a lower tier is labeled inline with that tier. Where two sources disagreed, the higher tier was recorded and the disagreement noted.

Sources

[1]
HK VP9 — specifications and available configurations (ID 81000283), as published at captureManufacturer Manufacturer product page · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-13 · Captured 2025-02-16 from https://hk-usa.com/hk-models/vp9/
[2]
HK Launches New Striker Fired VP9 Pistol — datelined June 10, 2014, Columbus, GeorgiaManufacturer Manufacturer press release · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-13 · Captured 2026-02-06 from https://hk-usa.com/2014/06/10/hk-launches-new-striker-fired-vp9-pistol/
[3]
Heckler & Koch, Inc. Lifetime Limited Warranty (scopes by class — "All new Heckler & Koch Inc. firearms purchased after January 1, 1998")Manufacturer Manufacturer warranty page · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-13 · Captured 2026-02-06 from https://hk-usa.com/warranty/