Thanks, Texas and SilencerCo, For This Week’s Freedom Friday

Pair a Heckler & Koch VP9 Tactical with an Omega 9K silencer, and you have another Freedom Friday. If you follow me, you’ll see I go back and forth between Dallas and Chicago. This year, Illinois appears to be in a race with California and New York to see who can come up with the most absurd and overreaching gun laws they can come up with, so finding anything up there a little different to shoot isn’t easy.

This week’s adventure took me to the Texas DPS Tactical Training Facility, just north of Austin. While there, I hit a local range and could hear this muffled sound coming from the lane beside me. It didn’t quite sound like a 22, but it was quiet. I stuck my head around the corner, and sure enough, the guy had an HK VP9 Tactical with an Omega 9mm silencer.

For those of you who live in a freedom-loving state, it may not seem like much, but in Illinois, a silencer is one of those scary gun things you can’t own. When you play with guns for a living, you want to shoot anything you can get your hands on.

Of course, I introduced myself, explained where I lived, and kindly asked if I could put some rounds down range. Honestly, I think when most people find out I live in the Chicago area, they feel bad for me.

The H&K Omega combo was incredible, and it was accurate. I didn’t get to put a lot of rounds through it, but what I did was dead center.

The Heckler & Koch VP9 Tactical has a 4.7-inch barrel, and you can get it with various magazine capacities. The VP stands for Volkspistole, which translates to “the people’s pistol.” It has adjustable backstraps and fantastic ergonomics

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The silencer is the Omega K from SilencerCo and weighs only 7.2 oz. They say it’s one of the quietest silencers in its class. It’s rated for full-auto (another thing you can’t have in Illinois) and will work with a rifle or handgun. A couple of guys were shooting 22s at the same time, and the noise level was about the same.

Alan, thanks for letting me shoot your gun and trying something I can’t up North. Unfortunately, I am out of Texas and on my way back to Chicago, but at least it was fun while it lasted.