{"id":6609,"date":"2017-07-18T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/bt-vp9-silenced-pistol-a-modern-welrod\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:17:07","slug":"bt-vp9-silenced-pistol-a-modern-welrod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/bt-vp9-silenced-pistol-a-modern-welrod\/","title":{"rendered":"B&amp;T VP9 Silenced Pistol: A Modern Welrod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7tP9s4mm5I?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in this video, don&#8217;t miss the ARES companion blog post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/swiss-vp9-suppressed-pistol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/swiss-vp9-suppressed-pistol\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VP9 &#8220;Veterinary Pistol&#8221; (um&#8230;yeah) from Brugger &#038; Thomet is a manually operated 9x19mm handgun with a quite effective suppressor built right onto the barrel. It is, in fact, a remarkably close copy of the British SOE Welrod pistol from World War II, right down to some pretty minor details.<\/p>\n<p>The action uses a two-lug rotating bolt, which is unlocked and cycled by hand between shots. The magazine doubles as the grip, making for a compact and concealable package that would not necessarily be an obvious gun to the typical observer. The suppressor uses 4 rubber wipes which the bullet must actually make its own holes in &#8211; this makes it quieter than a typical suppressor, but only until the wipes have substantial holes shot through them (10 rounds or so). At that point the noise of each shot is still much quieter than a unsuppressed pistol, but not as quiet as when using new wipes. This is not a gun intended for a high volume of fire. That said, the suppressor body is easily removed, and the wipes are easily replaced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in this video, don&#8217;t miss the ARES companion blog post: http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/swiss-vp9-suppressed-pistol\/ The VP9 &#8220;Veterinary Pistol&#8221; (um&#8230;yeah) from Brugger &#038; Thomet is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/bt-vp9-silenced-pistol-a-modern-welrod\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B&amp;T VP9 Silenced Pistol: A Modern Welrod<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14788,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/14788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}