KWA USP Compact Metal Gas Pistol Manual

A natural follow-on to the full size USP series is the HK line of USP compacts. The high capacity magazine ban of 1994 is mostly responsible for an entirely new genre of compact handguns built around the arbitrary 10 round capacity imposed on U.S. citizens. Like its bigger brothers, the USP Compact was first offered in 9mm and .40 S&W, before later being offered in .45 ACP and finally .357 SIG. USP stands for Universal Selbstlade Pistole, or Universal Self-loading pistol in English. It has been incorrectly labeled in major American gun magazines as the Universal Service Pistol. The USP line was designed by the great Helmut Weldle, longtime HK engineer and the brains behind many of HK's great firearms.