Heckler & Koch VP9-B

Sourced from a Web Archive capture of hk-usa.com, which serves a Cloudflare interstitial to every request — see the hk-vp9 record for that reasoning and for why heckler-koch.com cannot substitute. Live product, so this is as-published at 2024-12-02 and may drift. NO OVERALL WIDTH IS RECORDED, AND THIS IS THE CLEANEST ILLUSTRATION OF THE NO-TRANSPLANT RULE IN THE DIRECTORY. The VP9-B's dimension table is headed "Caliber | Length | Height | Barrel Length | Sight Radius" — HK simply omits the Width column that the VP9's own page carries, on an otherwise identically formatted table one click away. The VP9 publishes 33.5 mm / 1.32 in, and these two pistols differ ONLY in their magazine release: HK groups the SKUs under the heading "VP9 Push Button Magazine Release", so the B is a push-button release in place of the VP9's ambidextrous paddle lever, a change that plainly cannot alter the slide's width. The figure was still not carried across. That is the same refusal as the Colt O1911C-SS, where matching model codes named different chamberings, and it is harder here precisely because the inference looks safe — which is the point: "obviously the same" is not a citation, and the dimensions row names the missing axis rather than implying a complete set. WHAT THE B MEANS IS RECORDED BECAUSE HK EXPLAINS IT, unlike Springfield's "GU23" or the Echelon's "4.5F", both of which this directory left unexpanded for want of a manufacturer statement. HK's own catalogue heading spells it out. EVERYTHING ELSE MATCHES THE VP9 EXACTLY, INCLUDING ITS DEFECT. Length, height, barrel length, sight radius, trigger pull, trigger travel, magazine capacities and barrel profile are identical, and so is the weight — 753 g and 25.56 oz under a row headed "Weight (with empty magazine)", where 753 g is 26.56 oz. Both figures are recorded and neither is flagged converted, because this directory converted nothing; the ounce-sized gap is HK's and is disclosed here as on the VP9, the CZ 1330 g / 46.5 oz handling. Every other pair reconciles: 186.5 mm/7.34 in, 137.5 mm/5.41 in, 104 mm/4.09 in and 24 N/5.4 lb all check out. The basis needs no inference — HK heads the row itself. IGNITION IS RECORDED AND THE TRIGGER MODE IS NOT, exactly as on the VP9 and for the same sentences, which this page carries verbatim: "The VP Series pistols use a striker fired ignition and a modified Browning operating system" states the ignition axis outright, while 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. The trigger is described as having "a solid, single action type break" — hedged by the word type, a claim about how the break feels rather than a classification, so `triggerAction` is unset. Capacity follows the SKU: the spec row lists 10 / 15 / 17 without designating any, and 81000285 ships two 17-round magazines. The 10-round SKU 81000263 and the night-sight configurations are separate listings, as are the whole VP9, VP9 Optics Ready, VP9 FDE and Holosun package lines, all of which appear in this page's catalogue table. YEAR INTRODUCED IS UNRECORDED AND THE VP9'S 2014 WAS DELIBERATELY NOT REUSED. HK's launch release announces the VP9, not this variant, and no VP9-B announcement exists anywhere in the archive — a targeted CDX query returns only the product page, its media gallery and two oEmbed endpoints. Dating this pistol from its parent's release would be the same error as transplanting its width. Frame class is unset: HK publishes no size class. HK publishes both unit systems, so nothing here is converted. Warranty is HK's class-scoped Lifetime Limited Warranty with its stated exclusions, as on the other HK records. 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.