Posted on 01/31/2006 12:39:01 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
Yes, it was totally reliable, never had the sense it would ever jam.
I just think it's hard for German companies to adjust to all the different rules in the USA. The fact that it's 50 states and the gun laws are different in each of them. For a while it was pretty easy to buy select fire versions of the MP-9 and stuff. Then it became impossible. The AWB scared a lot of vendors. The Cali AWB did too, as it's the biggest single state.
I like the HK's USP pistols too. But then I like Smith&Wssons and Kimbers and Rugers and Berettas and SIGs and CZ's too. Most of those companies don't make much true military hardward (ie: full auto stuff) so don't even have to think about it.
HK is privately held. This does allow them more independence than public companies. They never signed a consent decree that I am aware of, and haven't put lots of retrofitted parts that Chuckie and Hillary want on all their guns, unlike some of the companies listed above.
Like the man said: "youse pays your money and takes youse choice"
Considering the price I bought it (77 cents) I haven't been too concerned with the ups and downs of it.
If it ever dropped below $1.00 I might sell.
Where is the SCAR being built?
That, and the UMP .45, are the ultimate SMGs.
Thanks for torturing a fellow with some raunchy gun porn! ;>))
They do offer a semi-auto version of the G36, which the XM8 is more or less based on.
G-36.
SL-8 semi-auto.
That's with a nuetered magazine design, because BATF ruled, under the Impeached One, that guns able to accept a >10 round magazine could not be imported, even if no such magazine had ever been imported. So H&K had to change the design a little so it could not accept the G-36 magazine. Hopefully they are now able to import the version that can.
They couldn't anyway under the "once a machine gun, always a machine gun" policy of the BATFE, even that's nowhere in the law, just the regs. Parts could be though.
Worse though is that Clinton sent many M-14s, parts and all, to Captain Krunch, which crushed them. They are likely rebar or chicken wire now.
SCAR Light and Heavy (5.56mm and 7.62mm versions) are being built at the FN Plant in South Carolina, IIRC.
FN has made comments about possible civilian sales.
Givent that they've released the PS90 (as promised) and plant to release the FN2000 later this year, I think we can thake them at their word.
Parts is exactly what we wanted.
Newer milled receivers like the LRW are on par with the older TRW receivers and the parts kits the DCM could have released would have been a tremendous benefit to all competitive shooters.
During my reserve days, back in 1994 or so, I escorted about fifty VERY GOOD condition M1911A1s to the steam chopper when we received our M9/92FS Berettas. Many of those Colts looked like they had never been fired.
HK turned it's back on the civilian market here in the US. They refuse to service any civilian owned full auto and that has hurt them.
HK could become the premier gun company here in the US but that won't happen until management changes and they remember that the civilian market is where they had their big break through in the US.
Mike
Somehow I can't picture Clint Eastwood saying "Meet my three friends, Smith, Wesson and Bob."
Maybe it's time for H & K to stop treating the civilian market like something it scraped off its shoe. I love my USP, but H & K has consistently treated the civilian market with Teutonic disdain.
I liked the UMP .45 ACP more, but it had more recoil when fired. 230 grain rounds versus 135 grain rounds.
UMP .45 ACP Submachine Gun
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