Ignition Overdrive,
"If only the HK P7s had been imported in far higher numbers, and were easier to justify buying....reportedly the best 9mm handgun ever produced by HK. "
YES, very much yes.
I had a PSP P7 with the push forward (pinch) bottom mag release. It was stolen. Folks complained about it over heating and burning your trigger finger....but not in real life scenerios involving only three mags. They complained about the gas cyclinder getting dirty and stopping the slide from going far enough back, really only an issue with lead bullets and later models came with a scraper tool to be used in PM to prevent this ( I used a small flat head screw driver in my very early one. (and before folks have a hissy about using lead in a polygonal barrel....lead out cloth followed by brass bore brush, followed by lead out cloth) Wife used it for most of Ayoob's LFI 1 (locked it in car one day and Mas loaned her his Python Snubbie, every since she has wanted another P7 and a Python like Ayoob's)
I got to shoot a VP70z ( I thought the HK4 was earlier) and was not that impressed. I handled a stocked one and a Stocked Beretta 93R and liked the Beretta more, but shot neither.
oh and while I never have liked Glocks that much Given the choice of a VP70 and a full sized Glock for actual life depends on it carry I would pick the Glock with out hesitation
-kBob