Hi-Point’s ‘Name the Nine Contest’ Takes Curious Turn as HK Weighs In

By Chris Eger

When Ohio-based Hi-Point asked the internet to suggest a name for their new 9mm handgun, the Yeet Cannon fired and the Germans got in on the act. Hi-Point’s “Name the Nine” contest promised to give their fans a stake at naming their promised new handgun design. Initial name suggestions after a week of polling reportedly garnered 7,880 entries, with the most prolific, 556, being for Yeet Cannon or YC-9.
Yeet Cannon became the crowd favorite in HI-Point’s own version of the Boaty McBoatface phenomena. (Photos: Hi-Point via Facebook)
Yeet, a word that has crept into acceptance in the past few years, is generally employed as a multi-use exclamation. However, four days after announcing Yeet Cannon was topping polls, Hi-Point on Tuesday announced a final list of 10 proposed alpha-numeric names, none of which included the past crowd favorite. This sparked a backlash on the company’s social media page, with some 1,600 largely negative comments, many questioning the absence of Yeet.
Hi-Point’s current list of accepted names in what has evolved into the Vote the Nine contest. (Photos: Hi-Point via Facebook)
“We want the name we all voted for. We want the Yeet Cannon,” noted one commenter, whose call to action was, in turn, liked nearly 400 times. Then,

Source: Guns.com