The adjustment is according to Minister Ard van der Steur (Security and Justice) necessary “to ensure the reliability of the weapon in the future.”
It is the Walther P99Q-NL. Of these, a total of 49,000 in the Netherlands. The firearm vendor has already provided solutions to four problem areas.
The problems would only come to light during training and never encountered in daily practice. The error rate during workouts is less than 1 percent, police said.
Additional technicians
The police leadership has decided that happens, the necessary replacement of parts during the normal annual weapon maintenance. To ensure that each Walther P99Q-NL is checked within a year, additional weapon technicians are deployed.
According to Van der Steur, the police are satisfied with the gun. But in response to “a number of signals from the training has been decided in consultation with the manufacturer to make some adjustments.” Among others, the trigger spring and trigger housing to be replaced by better ones. This will be done during regular maintenance
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