@Dave that could be, i have no idea how much of my previous comment is true but some german person told me that the hk office has police cars in front of it very often..
@@sliceofbread2611 Nah, it is reasonably accurate. The issue is that the government desperately wants the money and influence H&K brings to Germany, but they don't like having to share it with H&K, so German politicians and civil servants are constantly attacking H&K for their own benefit.
H&K a few years ago " we're very responsible where and who we sell guns too " H&K 2019 " hey, this PCC thing is skyrocketing and other companies are killing it selling them to the largest market in the world " "Dieter, get the screwdriver and a ton of boxes"
When this video was a few hours late appearing, the day after Forgotten Weapons had rashly filmed himself making eyes at a British auto-ejecting revolver, I feared that his French firearms collection might have collectively shot him in a crime passionnel!
I had a toy camo one as a kid. I remember one time, I watched this documentary on the British SAS and I was so intrigued by it, I would put on some camo pants, this camo hoodie I had, some camo fingerless gloves/mitts that my brother had but which still fit me (though they were a little snug) putting on my backpack and buckling all the straps around me, this camo boonie hat that I had, and then taking the toy camo MP5 and going outside pretending to fight Russians as an SAS commando. Good times.
I still don't quite get it on the G3A3 to be honest. It takes so much force to get those lugs in that it amazes me they ever work. Obviously they do but damn they are solid.
@@RealCadde MOMENTUM. That's the key to all of the increasingly complex automatic eject-cycle-feed firearms. You've gotta imagine it working at speed rather than trying to imagine it step by step in slow mo. Also, with so many people 3D modeling firearm operating systems today, TH-cam videos(like the animations that C&Rsenal uses) should help put the concept together. They really help with understanding some of the more over the top MGs(especially the WWI and earlier stuff), since there is SO much shit happening at the same time between cycling the feed system, the various elevators/lifters, reciprocating actions, unnecessarily complex ejection systems - Rube Goldberg MUST have been inspired by the early MGs, no doubt! Lol
2:49 This is an image of British SAS commandos storming the Iranian Embassy in London when it was held by terrorists in 1980 - in case you didn't already know that. :)
I remember the instructor making a particular point of the "HK slap" when I did the "rent a machine gun" thing with an MP5 at an indoor range once. The range employee who showed me how to work it was a laconic character--his actual words, as close as I can remember them a few years later, were "... an' then give 'er a smack. You can't [redacted] around with it, just whack it in good shape. It's German, you ain't gonna hurt it." Which rather set the tone for the whole experience. :) (The "safety briefing" portion of this same instructional session included the sentence, "Let's try an' keep it outta the ceiling," which turned out to be pretty easy with the ol' MP5. The old Mk I IBM Selectric is harder to control, although the consquences of losing control of a Selectric are less dramatic.)
just a bit of trrivia: the ambidextrous safeties on H&K guns actually serve a purpose beyond just allowing left handed use. another purpose of the system is to allow users to operate the safety using their thumb OR trigger finger, you are actually supposed to use your trigger finger to engage the safety and your thumb to disengage the safety, i have seen people online operating the safety thumb only and then complain about it being awkward to use, so i decided to point it out.
Kurt Bergh Sorry...I feel for you. However, tourists can travel to Las Vegas and rent a full-auto MP5 (or whatever else you want) and have a fun day at the range in downtown Vegas. I like going just to meet all the Japanese, British and French tourists.
@@larissaziemba9162 I'm Finnish and getting an MP5 clone isn't a problem here, it's just that getting a real HK-made one is hard, as they don't make one for Europe. I'm waiting for an MKE (known as Zenith in America) right now. The flash hider has to be welded on and extended so that the total barrel length is 12 inches, but otherwise there are no problems.
This video makes me so happy. I've been wanting to pick up a pistol caliber "carbine" for a while now but haven't been able to decide which one to go with. I've wanted an MP5 for over 25 years. I've been very wary of the MP5 clones, so this will do nicely. Now to prepare myself for the sticker shock when I get the courage to go look up the MSRP.
Customers: "Do you sell shoulder stocks? People would love to buy original parts." HK: "Pfff! Nein! Humbug!" also HK: "I wonder why we don't make enough money and are in debt."
I think it doesn't have a stock because it's classified as a pistol. If it had a stock it would be considered a SBR by American law. At least I'm pretty sure.
Robert Luera which just means tax stamp etc which isn’t that big of a deal just can’t travel out of state with it easily or ‘shoulder brace’ and have none of that
Anders können sie die Teile nicht leicht nach amerika exportieren. Der Lauf ist zu kurz, wäre mit Schaft eine sog. SBR (short barreled rifle), und dafür braucht man eine genehmigung, schwachsinnigerweise. Ohne Schaft ist es als Pistole deklariert, kann also easy von jedem erworben werden, ohne Sondergenehmigung.
When I did my year of conscription in the RNoAF, our instructors told us: You know that action movie you like, no matter which movie it is, this is the gun they use.
I'm a retired SWAT commander here in Texas. I've sent literally millions of rounds downrange with the mp5, in both 9mm and .40S&W. If I were being dropped in a war zone and could only take two sidearms, they would be H&K and Glock. When your life rests on your weapons ability to go bang every single time, these two manufacturers simply cannot be beat. I collect firearms and I miss the MP5. I believe I'll pick an SP5 up. Thanks for making this video, I had been wondering if the civilian version was worth owning. In the twenty years or so that I was involved with SWAT, we had no mp5 failures whatsoever. I was one of our armorers, so I saw firsthand the wear in the guns, and they held up amazingly well to probably the roughest duty imaginable. Nobody spends as much time or as much ammo practicing as SWAT does. You practice as realistically as possible, so the guns go through hell. Gotta love those Germans.
"HK slap damages the gun." That's the first time I heard that. How can anyone so gullible and worried still have the confidence to actually fire a gun?
Mostly a rummor started by people who never handled the firearms... And a few UMPs that didn't have the charging handles up to spec when they first shipped.
I had a P7; good gun, but I got rid of it because I wasn't willing to dedicate the time to its unique system. Maybe someday I will find another, simply to put on a shelf
@@ostiariusalpha You're really under estimating the monumental task it would be to bring back a gun designed to be hand fit during assembly. For a lot of these old guns, machines were purpose built to make cuts that would be prohibitively expensive and slow to do on a CNC. Source: I'm a manufacturing engineer for one of the largest gun manufacturers here in the US. Plus, if half the gun was MIM, would it really be a proper P7? It'd lose that magic touch in my opinion.
'AMMU-NATION' has to be one of the greatest recurring video game assets ever - and, I can only imagine how much the rest of the world thinks that US firearms sales work EXACTLY like that LOL [...don't we wish...] "...I'll take 5 molotovs, 2 vests, 1 of those sawed-offs... ...oh yea, and those cheap sunglasses"
One of my favorite things about watching movies in the 80s and 90s was looking at all the MP5s that were on screen and noting that they were pretty much all full auto converted hk94s due to the lack of the paddle release.
I was considering getting into mp5’s but now that they’ve gotten the masses attention back I won’t be able to find anything “reasonably” priced for about 6 months, Thanks HK.
@Lt. Colonel Tanya von Degurechaff yeah because HK is sooooooo concerned with following export laws right? Besides what's the German government ACTUALLY going to do if HK decided to, say, make an MP7 in the US, fine them into a complete shutdown and ruin a part of their economy and the military? HK is losing relevance, and their financial status shows it. You put a lot of stock in military contracts (just as HK does) however you seem to not understand that governments don't like paying a lot of money per product, so they get insane discounts thus meaning profit margins aren't very high.
I'd also like to know what he meant by that. All gun laws are infringements, so the least the ATF could do is just look the other way when you "accidentally" use a pistol brace the wrong way
CH3FxEXcELL3NcE I assumed that he meant that since everyone shoulders braces anyway that they’d just do away with the stupid laws about no stocks on pistols. Maybe he meant something else though idk.
Well since as a dealer we can almost never frond the SP5K, I’m not super optimistic that HK will have these available to dealers (the public) anytime soon. HK needs to step up their civilian firearms game and put a priory on manufacturing to the US.
13:20 Funny, i remember the Bundeswehr Drill Instructor in Basic Training forbidding us to slap the charging handle when loading the G3, so we don't damage Gouverment property.
Watching your videos has made me very knowledgeable about guns, to the point that it's amusing if anything gun related is brought up in conversation. I didn't know about H&K's nomenclature. You most likely won't see this but, would you consider doing a video about how other companies categorise/ organise their firearms or would this be too educational and stray too far from focusing on specific pieces?
For April Fool's Day Ian and Jimmy "Booty-Shorts" Reeves at TFB should trade places and do videos in each other's style. Yes, Ian, that means shooting a Glock pistol wearing booty shorts to bad techno music. Yes, James, that means wearing a finely-trimmed goatee and hat and giving a serious talk about a firearm.
"Some people say it will hurt the gun" when slapping the charging handle. First of all, wouldn't firing the damn thing hurt it way more then? Secondly, if you fiddle with that handle in any way you will eventually get your finger caught in the slot as it slams forward and you will lose a significant chunk of skin unless you are really lucky. Trust me, it happened to one of my friends. And furthermore, it happened to another guy at the firing range with the HK G3A3, he got his pinky stuck ahead of the charging handle when it slammed shut and it made mince meat out of his fingertip. He lost his nail and today there's just a lump of hardness there instead of a proper nail.
HK is planning to officially launch the SP5 and SP5L in Europe in 2020 (at IWA show) - info from the official Polish HK Importer. It seems it will be sold w/o the stock, but tbh it's no big deal to just replace the end cap yourself.
@@NowThatsGreg Didn't the latest EU laws further restrict carbine-like firearms under 60cms in length? And what about magazine limits - isn't pistols 20 rounds whilst rifle is 10?
The stock isn’t a problem... there nothing stopping you from buying a stock and just mating it to the gun. This is just presented this way for the U.S. market were we have official legal designations for “pistol” and “short barreled rifle”. Selling it like this allows we U.S. customers to buy it off the shelf with a background check and not need to submit a form 4 for a Short Barreled Rifle tax stamp to add the stock. It’s a stupid law that’s circumnavigated with our “pistol braces”. Your laws may be totally different. Canada, for instance, has no short barreled rifle designation for firearms with barrel lengths under 16 inches.
@@ndeepowder i kinda doubt it. Trump doesnt seem to care about guns much either way. Though if someone slides a repeal bill in front of him and says it would make bloomberg furious he might go for it
When I was at the Bundeswehr I was told slapping the cocking handle grinds down the notch securing it in the upward open position. Considering draftees were using 30 year old rifles in basic training losing a finger to a not so securely locked bold might be an issue.
CIP is just some European proofing. "Commission internationale permanente pour l'épreuve des armes à feu portatives" and the SP5 got proofed for ordinary use ("N"). I have these markings on all of my guns as an owner in France because it's mandatory here.
Wait, you can easily put an M16/M4 lower into a semi-auto AR15 (iv8888 has made an entire video series on this concept). Why is it a problem if HK does it with their SP5 but not a problem for all of the AR15 manufacturers?
good luck trying to find one. They are selling around $5,000 on Gun-Trader auction. Good jog H&K. Produce them in small numbers so we all fight for them. Bravo, great business practice.
@5:08 - I find it either amusing or sad that a weapons specifically designed to be a non-select fire civilian firearm was prohibited by an "assault weapon" ban...
"...but... but... but... just LOOK AT IT! It's big and girthy and black and... are you trying to scar my children for LIFE or something?! I moved my family to a gated community to keep them safe from all of these big black girthy scary things!!!" - someone that believes in increased firearm legislation, probably...
In my opinion, the "assault weapon import bans" led directly to the rise of a vibrant, flourishing AR industry in the USA, and the assault weapons ban further added to it by 1) adding to the "cool factor" - since it's banned and 2) lots of great engineering to work around various restrictions.
I almost bought an SP89 in CA right before the state ban back in the 90's. Couldn't justify the price at that time - $5K. Also passed on a green tag Chinese folding stock AK at $2K then (which is the one I really regret but it was 6 time what my other AKs cost). Ended up opting for an FN as what at the time seemed like the last piece I could add to the collection. Very nice to see the platform back after 20+ years. I could never find a legit H&K rifle/SP in good enough shape at a fair price to get one back then.
sometimes I can't watch the videos all the way through. simply because I want one so bad, I get frustrated because I can't afford them. But I always click a thumbs up even before I watch. never have I found anything you've done deserving of a "dislike"
Would be very interesting to see how it compares to the PTR clone or the yet to be released PSA clone. Would have loved to see them come out with optics ready rail similar to the SP5K.
I guess I'm too used to my Tippmann A5 paintball gun where the external design was HEAVILY influenced by the mp5, I keep thinking how weird it looks not having a second retaining pin at the top of the back cap.
It's guns like these that makes me sad we have such strict gun laws....well, this and an AK 74, which is at the other end of the spectrum. Just owning a gun here (the Netherlands) is difficult, let alone anything this cool.
BuzzinsPetRock78 No worries...our American politicians are in love with European Socialism and hate our 2nd Amendment. By the year 2030 our gun laws will match yours. In the meantime you can always vacation in Las Vegas and rent a full-auto MP5 and have some fun while it lasts!
Hey, where are you? Get back here!!
your shitposting department is amazing
When couples flirt in the comments
someone left the gate open
He got stolen by HK. You can get him back if you pay 100 Million $ cash :D
@@niceguy391987 or something french
Very interesting to see HK offering an MP5 that isn't made entirely out of unobtainium!
@Dave isn't that because the german police keeps raiding the main office and taking all the laptops?
@Dave that could be, i have no idea how much of my previous comment is true but some german person told me that the hk office has police cars in front of it very often..
@@sliceofbread2611 Nah, it is reasonably accurate. The issue is that the government desperately wants the money and influence H&K brings to Germany, but they don't like having to share it with H&K, so German politicians and civil servants are constantly attacking H&K for their own benefit.
I mean, $3,000 is still pretty tough to stomach for a "pistol."
Didn't HK have some weird dealings with the cartel or some shit?
Great video, Ian. Hope you enjoyed your T&E copy as much as I enjoyed mine. - James
Maybe now he will get comment love?
H&K a few years ago " we're very responsible where and who we sell guns too "
H&K 2019 " hey, this PCC thing is skyrocketing and other companies are killing it selling them to the largest market in the world "
"Dieter, get the screwdriver and a ton of boxes"
When this video was a few hours late appearing, the day after Forgotten Weapons had rashly filmed himself making eyes at a British auto-ejecting revolver, I feared that his French firearms collection might have collectively shot him in a crime passionnel!
5:40
1 - Fire no rounds
2 - Fire one round
3 - Fire three rounds
4 - Yes
5 All the Rounds
6 DAYUM bro
No
Yes
Yeees
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS
Goddamnit i just SBR'd my PTR9
Love your videos dude
OH SHIT...Are we still getting a Kriss 2.0 close-range practical run?
Hows the PTR been treating you?
Me too... 2k+ rounds no hick ups tho
technically isnt the PTR better bang for the buck?
"Now... I have... a wrist brace
Ho
Ho
Ho"
I understood that reference!
"He's still alive ... only John can drive somebody that crazy"
@@keeganpenney169 The best Christmas movie ever,.
Die Hard IS a Christmas movie!!!!!!!
🤣🤣
IT HAS A PADDLE MAG RELEASE YES
And a finger release. It has both. Good move.
Yes, don’t know why HK didn’t do that for the SP5K. They made a bad mistake there. I retro fitted one on to my SP5K from HK parts.net
One of the first guns I recognized as a kid, such an iconic 'special forces' gun.
I had a toy camo one as a kid. I remember one time, I watched this documentary on the British SAS and I was so intrigued by it, I would put on some camo pants, this camo hoodie I had, some camo fingerless gloves/mitts that my brother had but which still fit me (though they were a little snug) putting on my backpack and buckling all the straps around me, this camo boonie hat that I had, and then taking the toy camo MP5 and going outside pretending to fight Russians as an SAS commando.
Good times.
wanted one since i saw Die hard and Predator in a double feature
Special forces? Danish police use it at standard support gun.
@@antifacisme So do the Dutch, I meant 'special forces' in a broader, figurative, movie kind of way :)
Ah, I see. Sorry for the negative comment then :)
Disappointing you didn't present this wearing a flash hood and a gas mask.
Don't forget the thick British accent that's also needed
@@lycossurfer8851 no "fookin laser sights" tho. Thatcher doesn't use the MP5; that's Mute.
faeembrugh the lack of SAS kit is disturbing.
"Bravo six going dark"
"you asked for a miracle, gentlemen; I give you the S... P... 5" 🤔😂
"It's Xmas Theo, The time of miracles..."
Dat roller delayed blowback doe.
stewbacca117 lmao!! Right!!! 😂😂😂👍👍👍👍
HK: *includes the paddle mag release*
American gun bois : “Did you just understand me?”
Soooo glad to hear HK is finally selling a semi auto MP5. Took long enough..
They must be financially desperate to actually give us what we want.
The german government actually let them export them
@@timtyler3524 more than positive that they are
@@mr.angryman3599 We MIGHT actually get a semi auto MP7 thanks to their desperation.
@@timtyler3524 at that point it would be easier to get a p90 plus the 5 7 for interchangeable ammunition between the two
HK ceo: (z-5rs falls on car)
HK ceo: (calls in sp5 backup)
US market: "welcome to the party pal"
lmao nice one
That roller blowback took me ages to get my head around when I first looked into action types. Great design!!
I still don't quite get it on the G3A3 to be honest. It takes so much force to get those lugs in that it amazes me they ever work. Obviously they do but damn they are solid.
@@RealCadde well I can only dream about touching the insides, but if you look at the saami for the working pressure that might help hahaha
@@RealCadde MOMENTUM. That's the key to all of the increasingly complex automatic eject-cycle-feed firearms. You've gotta imagine it working at speed rather than trying to imagine it step by step in slow mo.
Also, with so many people 3D modeling firearm operating systems today, TH-cam videos(like the animations that C&Rsenal uses) should help put the concept together. They really help with understanding some of the more over the top MGs(especially the WWI and earlier stuff), since there is SO much shit happening at the same time between cycling the feed system, the various elevators/lifters, reciprocating actions, unnecessarily complex ejection systems - Rube Goldberg MUST have been inspired by the early MGs, no doubt! Lol
I already know before I start the video that I'm too much of a poor. But one day my Die Hard larp will be real.
Yippy cayeah to you
Come out to the coast, we'll get together-have a few laughs
Literally bought an AUG to Die Hard Larp
2:49 This is an image of British SAS commandos storming the Iranian Embassy in London when it was held by terrorists in 1980 - in case you didn't already know that. :)
Thank you.
Thank you sir. I can get learnid now
God I love that gun. I carried an SD as my backup for 8 years. Wish I could have smuggled one out. :p
Thank you Ian for showing the Iconic Iranian Embassy seige 1980 and the SAS storming in armed with the legendary MP 5.
Tango down
I remember the instructor making a particular point of the "HK slap" when I did the "rent a machine gun" thing with an MP5 at an indoor range once. The range employee who showed me how to work it was a laconic character--his actual words, as close as I can remember them a few years later, were "... an' then give 'er a smack. You can't [redacted] around with it, just whack it in good shape. It's German, you ain't gonna hurt it." Which rather set the tone for the whole experience. :)
(The "safety briefing" portion of this same instructional session included the sentence, "Let's try an' keep it outta the ceiling," which turned out to be pretty easy with the ol' MP5. The old Mk I IBM Selectric is harder to control, although the consquences of losing control of a Selectric are less dramatic.)
"Hello, welcome back to the least forgotten weapons on all time, im your host"
Fixed your intro
Yea ,this weapon is the complete polar opposite of forgotten .
Unforgottable Weapons
Inb4 'Gib civillian MP7 pls'
But do it in 5.7×28!
T H I S
They cant due to german Gov gun laws and export laws, they went through hoops just to export this
@@peterdvornik they would never chamber in 5.7, the mp7 was specifically designed to compete against the FN systems.
@@ritgrant r/woosh
just a bit of trrivia:
the ambidextrous safeties on H&K guns actually serve a purpose beyond just allowing left handed use.
another purpose of the system is to allow users to operate the safety using their thumb OR trigger finger, you are actually supposed to use your trigger finger to engage the safety and your thumb to disengage the safety, i have seen people online operating the safety thumb only and then complain about it being awkward to use, so i decided to point it out.
Not an American so I can't get one, but I'm so thrilled for you guys. And it's December, almost time for Die Hard.
Kurt Bergh Sorry...I feel for you. However, tourists can travel to Las Vegas and rent a full-auto MP5 (or whatever else you want) and have a fun day at the range in downtown Vegas. I like going just to meet all the Japanese, British and French tourists.
@@larissaziemba9162 I'm Finnish and getting an MP5 clone isn't a problem here, it's just that getting a real HK-made one is hard, as they don't make one for Europe. I'm waiting for an MKE (known as Zenith in America) right now. The flash hider has to be welded on and extended so that the total barrel length is 12 inches, but otherwise there are no problems.
This video makes me so happy. I've been wanting to pick up a pistol caliber "carbine" for a while now but haven't been able to decide which one to go with. I've wanted an MP5 for over 25 years. I've been very wary of the MP5 clones, so this will do nicely. Now to prepare myself for the sticker shock when I get the courage to go look up the MSRP.
Customers: "Do you sell shoulder stocks? People would love to buy original parts."
HK: "Pfff! Nein! Humbug!"
also HK: "I wonder why we don't make enough money and are in debt."
I think it doesn't have a stock because it's classified as a pistol. If it had a stock it would be considered a SBR by American law. At least I'm pretty sure.
@@robertluera6 that's when you buy a " shoulder brace".
Robert Luera which just means tax stamp etc which isn’t that big of a deal just can’t travel out of state with it easily or ‘shoulder brace’ and have none of that
Anders können sie die Teile nicht leicht nach amerika exportieren. Der Lauf ist zu kurz, wäre mit Schaft eine sog. SBR (short barreled rifle), und dafür braucht man eine genehmigung, schwachsinnigerweise. Ohne Schaft ist es als Pistole deklariert, kann also easy von jedem erworben werden, ohne Sondergenehmigung.
The reason is good old german gun laws, it's a while thing
damn I cant get enough of you Ian. u da man
Now one of my favorite guns is within reach! Thank you, Ian, for this review.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
When I did my year of conscription in the RNoAF, our instructors told us: You know that action movie you like, no matter which movie it is, this is the gun they use.
I think Lieutenant John Mclane did wonders for the MP5's rep too lol.
And knowing H&K it's probably $3000 for a gun that is sold to law enforcement for $700...
MSRP $2800, you're about right...
as near as makes no difference, "MSRP $2799," probably about half that for LE MP5's .
No, they're $700 for a police department to buy. If your police department is financially transparent you can see for yourself.
@@skyhop i thought $700 is for the UMP and the MP5's doubled that?
Update to October 2020: now approaching $4,000, and still climbing
used a MP5N for 15 years in Marine Recon til they phazed them out solid weapon
does the MP5N 3 or 4 position selector?
It's full auto, semi and safe. Navy trigger group.
@Canon Waters yes
What’s the difference between recon and force recon?
I'm a retired SWAT commander here in Texas. I've sent literally millions of rounds downrange with the mp5, in both 9mm and
.40S&W. If I were being dropped in a war zone and could only take two sidearms, they would be H&K and Glock. When your life rests on your weapons ability to go bang every single time, these two manufacturers simply cannot be beat.
I collect firearms and I miss the MP5. I believe I'll pick an SP5 up. Thanks for making this video, I had been wondering if the civilian version was worth owning.
In the twenty years or so that I was involved with SWAT, we had no mp5 failures whatsoever. I was one of our armorers, so I saw firsthand the wear in the guns, and they held up amazingly well to probably the roughest duty imaginable. Nobody spends as much time or as much ammo practicing as SWAT does. You practice as realistically as possible, so the guns go through hell.
Gotta love those Germans.
@ThisnThatPackRat? Err...thats great.
Nice, my favorite manufacturer releases a semi-auto version of one of my favorite guns on my birthday.
"Smile Karl, we're back in business!"
Ingsoc75 now find the detonators
"HK slap damages the gun."
That's the first time I heard that. How can anyone so gullible and worried still have the confidence to actually fire a gun?
Mostly a rummor started by people who never handled the firearms... And a few UMPs that didn't have the charging handles up to spec when they first shipped.
My guess is that it could also be an Airsoft thing.
Probably the same people that tell you not to dry fire any gun.
@@TacgnolSimulacrum
Not to forget:
Never EVER press the slide release on a pistol.
@Dane Chauvin The slap method is in the MP5 manual as the only method for charging the firearm. Its not an issue.
Maybe they'll see the light and re-introduce the P7!
@@Rltvader1 The tooling is unnecessary, CNC machining is superior anyways; and MIM is cheaper. But yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Great call, probably be a real hit. BTW I have been carrying a P7 since the 80s!
My favorite concealed carry weapon.
I had a P7; good gun, but I got rid of it because I wasn't willing to dedicate the time to its unique system. Maybe someday I will find another, simply to put on a shelf
@@ostiariusalpha You're really under estimating the monumental task it would be to bring back a gun designed to be hand fit during assembly. For a lot of these old guns, machines were purpose built to make cuts that would be prohibitively expensive and slow to do on a CNC.
Source: I'm a manufacturing engineer for one of the largest gun manufacturers here in the US.
Plus, if half the gun was MIM, would it really be a proper P7? It'd lose that magic touch in my opinion.
thought this was AMMU-NATION!
Yes, but my MP5 i took in 2000 in a Black Mesa Research Facility
@@George_Doc spas-12 was my jam!
@@George_Doc I also found a Python and a Desert Eagle there too, with a laser pointer too nonetheless
Sa and VC nostalgia intensifies
'AMMU-NATION' has to be one of the greatest recurring video game assets ever - and, I can only imagine how much the rest of the world thinks that US firearms sales work EXACTLY like that LOL
[...don't we wish...]
"...I'll take 5 molotovs, 2 vests, 1 of those sawed-offs... ...oh yea, and those cheap sunglasses"
One of my favorite things about watching movies in the 80s and 90s was looking at all the MP5s that were on screen and noting that they were pretty much all full auto converted hk94s due to the lack of the paddle release.
I was considering getting into mp5’s but now that they’ve gotten the masses attention back I won’t be able to find anything “reasonably” priced for about 6 months, Thanks HK.
I got introduced to the MP5 in the original Rainbow Six game in the 90s, and I've been in love with the design ever since.
Ian does a 20 minute h&K commercial
H&K: "Hey thanks alot man, we appreciate it!"
Not even mad.
Perfect fit for the channel IMO. Iconic, legandary design dating back to WWII. Im glad they are offering it again from factory HK
What was the WW2 predecessor to this called? I've seen pictures and it looks very advanced for its day
@@visionist7 Gerat-06H (STG45)
@@MUCKLEECH thanks
Have you done a review on the UMP? I like that, the way it looks, much more than the mp5 and would love to see a dismantle on the UMP.
Wow, HK giving people something they really want?
Now,let's wait for a 10mm Mark 23.
@Boston Josh but they arent H&K mp5's
we want an MP7
@Lt. Colonel Tanya von Degurechaff yeah because HK is sooooooo concerned with following export laws right? Besides what's the German government ACTUALLY going to do if HK decided to, say, make an MP7 in the US, fine them into a complete shutdown and ruin a part of their economy and the military?
HK is losing relevance, and their financial status shows it. You put a lot of stock in military contracts (just as HK does) however you seem to not understand that governments don't like paying a lot of money per product, so they get insane discounts thus meaning profit margins aren't very high.
@Lt. Colonel Tanya von Degurechaff i know its unrealistic, but a kid can dream.
“Hopefully this will lead to legal reforms in the us” do you mean banning arm braces or make sbr’s not registered?
I'd also like to know what he meant by that. All gun laws are infringements, so the least the ATF could do is just look the other way when you "accidentally" use a pistol brace the wrong way
CH3FxEXcELL3NcE I assumed that he meant that since everyone shoulders braces anyway that they’d just do away with the stupid laws about no stocks on pistols. Maybe he meant something else though idk.
Repubs didn't do anything and Democrats hate civilians owning guns so very unlikely.
Awesome! Always loved H&K
I have an HK-94 and it is truly AWESOME.
That's really cool. Always loved the MP-5 design.
Well since as a dealer we can almost never frond the SP5K, I’m not super optimistic that HK will have these available to dealers (the public) anytime soon.
HK needs to step up their civilian firearms game and put a priory on manufacturing to the US.
13:20 Funny, i remember the Bundeswehr Drill Instructor in Basic Training forbidding us to slap the charging handle when loading the G3, so we don't damage Gouverment property.
Schonung von Heereseigentum
Watching your videos has made me very knowledgeable about guns, to the point that it's amusing if anything gun related is brought up in conversation.
I didn't know about H&K's nomenclature. You most likely won't see this but, would you consider doing a video about how other companies categorise/ organise their firearms or would this be too educational and stray too far from focusing on specific pieces?
Good on H&K! We, in the US, have been waiting on something like this for SO long.
For April Fool's Day Ian and Jimmy "Booty-Shorts" Reeves at TFB should trade places and do videos in each other's style.
Yes, Ian, that means shooting a Glock pistol wearing booty shorts to bad techno music. Yes, James, that means wearing a finely-trimmed goatee and hat and giving a serious talk about a firearm.
The MP5 will be a never forgotten weapon, always nice to see on this channel 😊
"Some people say it will hurt the gun" when slapping the charging handle.
First of all, wouldn't firing the damn thing hurt it way more then?
Secondly, if you fiddle with that handle in any way you will eventually get your finger caught in the slot as it slams forward and you will lose a significant chunk of skin unless you are really lucky.
Trust me, it happened to one of my friends. And furthermore, it happened to another guy at the firing range with the HK G3A3, he got his pinky stuck ahead of the charging handle when it slammed shut and it made mince meat out of his fingertip. He lost his nail and today there's just a lump of hardness there instead of a proper nail.
Sometimes you gotta slappa bitch to keep'em in line
It's not a recopricating charging handle.
@@InfuzeDcyphR I never said there was one.
Picked mine up this past Friday. It is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
i hope they release on with a stock in europe! I'd buy that
So far US wise no due to Germany letting them export this gun but under strict export rules
HK is planning to officially launch the SP5 and SP5L in Europe in 2020 (at IWA show) - info from the official Polish HK Importer. It seems it will be sold w/o the stock, but tbh it's no big deal to just replace the end cap yourself.
Just buy the stock seperately...
@@NowThatsGreg Didn't the latest EU laws further restrict carbine-like firearms under 60cms in length? And what about magazine limits - isn't pistols 20 rounds whilst rifle is 10?
The stock isn’t a problem... there nothing stopping you from buying a stock and just mating it to the gun. This is just presented this way for the U.S. market were we have official legal designations for “pistol” and “short barreled rifle”. Selling it like this allows we U.S. customers to buy it off the shelf with a background check and not need to submit a form
4 for a Short Barreled Rifle tax stamp to add the stock. It’s a stupid law that’s circumnavigated with our “pistol braces”. Your laws may be totally different. Canada, for instance, has no short barreled rifle designation for firearms with barrel lengths under 16 inches.
Ah a late upload. I always get your video perfectly timed at lunch time in my country 1pm. Had me worried for a bit
"Shoulder" brace LOL!
Is he saying he wants pistol braces banned?
@@ndeepowder He's saying he wants the NFA repealed
If we get 5 more years of TrumpyBear that just might be a possibility.
@@ndeepowder i kinda doubt it. Trump doesnt seem to care about guns much either way. Though if someone slides a repeal bill in front of him and says it would make bloomberg furious he might go for it
@@dave34988 Get Sean Hannity to say it. The Donald loves to watch Hannity or Judge Janine Pirro.
When I was at the Bundeswehr I was told slapping the cocking handle grinds down the notch securing it in the upward open position. Considering draftees were using 30 year old rifles in basic training losing a finger to a not so securely locked bold might be an issue.
How would you loose a finger? Doesn’t make any sense
@@theoneand0nly874 breech checking in the dark
CIP is just some European proofing. "Commission internationale permanente pour l'épreuve des armes à feu portatives" and the SP5 got proofed for ordinary use ("N").
I have these markings on all of my guns as an owner in France because it's mandatory here.
Yorihime I think the “N” stands for nitrocellulose proofed, so basically okay with modern smokeless powders.
7:30
Ian: "Shoulder braces"
ATF: "W U T 👁👄👁"
I have ALWAYS loved the MP5 and hope to one day own one of my own. My .22 clone is not cutting it anymore!
Dear Santa, I swear I've been good...
HK found Ian’s hiding spot, this was the only thing he could grab in his way out
THANK YOU HK and Ian for sharing
Wait, you can easily put an M16/M4 lower into a semi-auto AR15 (iv8888 has made an entire video series on this concept). Why is it a problem if HK does it with their SP5 but not a problem for all of the AR15 manufacturers?
If you've never shot an MP-5 you don't know what you're missing.
I love how all these comments are less than 10 minutes old.
i wonder why
i don't mind these modern and historic weapons videos, i still learn a ton even if they aren't obscure.
Love it, want it, want a proper Select Fire more, my favorite ranges have them !
good luck trying to find one. They are selling around $5,000 on Gun-Trader auction. Good jog H&K. Produce them in small numbers so we all fight for them. Bravo, great business practice.
@5:08 - I find it either amusing or sad that a weapons specifically designed to be a non-select fire civilian firearm was prohibited by an "assault weapon" ban...
If it fires a pistol round, it’s not an assault weapon.
"...but... but... but... just LOOK AT IT! It's big and girthy and black and... are you trying to scar my children for LIFE or something?! I moved my family to a gated community to keep them safe from all of these big black girthy scary things!!!"
- someone that believes in increased firearm legislation, probably...
In my opinion, the "assault weapon import bans" led directly to the rise of a vibrant, flourishing AR industry in the USA, and the assault weapons ban further added to it by 1) adding to the "cool factor" - since it's banned and 2) lots of great engineering to work around various restrictions.
@@waremergencypower6024 You know I don't know if the people who made the law even know the difference lol.
@@farmerbrown84 This is probably true. However I doubt it was the intended result lol. What'd that guy say in Jurassic Park? Life finds a way?
I almost bought an SP89 in CA right before the state ban back in the 90's. Couldn't justify the price at that time - $5K. Also passed on a green tag Chinese folding stock AK at $2K then (which is the one I really regret but it was 6 time what my other AKs cost). Ended up opting for an FN as what at the time seemed like the last piece I could add to the collection. Very nice to see the platform back after 20+ years. I could never find a legit H&K rifle/SP in good enough shape at a fair price to get one back then.
sometimes I can't watch the videos all the way through. simply because I want one so bad, I get frustrated because I can't afford them. But I always click a thumbs up even before I watch. never have I found anything you've done deserving of a "dislike"
That $2800 MSRP is a serious dealbreaker
Can we get an SP7 pretty please?
What do you think would be cooler to have, semi auto mp7, or full auto mp5?
Thank you so much for your time and sharing your knowledge. Your calm tone makes understanding information so much easier. I just subscribed.
I see's it, I want's it, I's gotta get's it, I's gonna get's it
The HK webstore has the genuine MP5 stock available! The stars are aligning.
Would be very interesting to see how it compares to the PTR clone or the yet to be released PSA clone. Would have loved to see them come out with optics ready rail similar to the SP5K.
4yrs later and I still haven’t seen a clone from PSA
I have a civilian marketed G36C it's comfortable it is not at all awkward to use I have the very gun you are reviewing and it works so well
Did I miss where Ian said anything about the price? Something exorbitant like $7000, probably. I'm more than satisfied with my POF.
I guess I'm too used to my Tippmann A5 paintball gun where the external design was HEAVILY influenced by the mp5, I keep thinking how weird it looks not having a second retaining pin at the top of the back cap.
This makes me want to watch Die Hard again!
Nice pistol.
I had an opportunity to shoot a MP5 with suppressor while I was in the military.
Very nice. Very quiet.
It's guns like these that makes me sad we have such strict gun laws....well, this and an AK 74, which is at the other end of the spectrum.
Just owning a gun here (the Netherlands) is difficult, let alone anything this cool.
BuzzinsPetRock78 No worries...our American politicians are in love with European Socialism and hate our 2nd Amendment. By the year 2030 our gun laws will match yours. In the meantime you can always vacation in Las Vegas and rent a full-auto MP5 and have some fun while it lasts!
Ian, Rock Island Auction and HK is my favourite love triangle.
You forgot to mention its $2900 msrp
Very cool :) My favorite version will always be the MP5K. So awesome looking!
"Yippee-ki-yay, mo**********!"
Paul Castro lmao! Right!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice, would still love to see some shooting with this particular pistol model.
If you don't mind seeing a grown man wearing boy shorts, I believe TFB just made a video: th-cam.com/video/6-1a1pr54s0/w-d-xo.html
It’s simple I see forgotten weapons I click
Oh my god I don't know why I find Ian just endlessly listing off all the MP5 variants so hilarious.
"Hopefully that will lead to some legal reform," and the monkey's paw curls
Yeah, lol. Heard that and was like "Ian, hol' up. Be specific."
always love the german safety markings
No Bullet > Bullet > All the Bullets (not pictured)
CIP N is infact the European standard proof mark for smokeless.
Ooh, shiny. Thank you Ian and HK.