Chinese MP5 style 9mm submachine gun
I know I said I was not going to blog for the next few days but I am very excited to finally see photos of the new Chinese made submachine gun I had heard about.
It looks a lot like what I would expect the child of a Sig 550 rifle and an H&K MP5 submachine gun would look like. I actually think it looks pretty good. Not much is known about this gun. It chambers 9mm less-lethal rubber bullet rounds (effective range of 10-80 meters) and 9mm Parabellum. The intended users are law enforcement.
It features a folding stock, H&K style diopter iron sight and quick detach red dot sight.
Grenade launcher attachment. Probably for less-lethal / crowd control ammunition.
Note MP5 style forward charging handle.
A few more images:
Hat Tip: china_police at MP.net
“Communists using MP5s is nothing short of blasphemy.”
China wore german helmets and used Canadian made sten guns in WW2.
They have also used C96 mauser pistols and Thompson smg’s.
@Ann O. Namos
“You can buy the civilian version (of the QBZ 97, 5.56 NATO) in Canada, but you won’t find it in America. This is probably because America is full of anti-communists, who won’t buy a thing we make.”
We certainly hate communism but uhhh we definitely buy the things you make. The import restrictions that the rest of the world has to deal with in the exportation of firearms to our country certainly apply to the PRC so we aren’t like singling you out.
For the record we love your people, language, food, culture and we’ll be proud to “Buy Chinese” just as soon as the CCP dissolves and you adopt an open, pluralistic and democratic electoral system. xie xie until then and /hugs out to the Chinese people!
Cool, looks awesome, follows the usual style (copy someone else’s design and improve it until it’s unbreakable, never jams, powerful, chambered for every cartridge the gunmakers can think of, and stamped by Norinco), and could probably be effective in any CQC. Still, Norinco have yet to top the type 97.
NOTE: If you want to fire a 97 in full auto, go to China, where we usually keep a few handy at the firing ranges (yes, we have firing ranges). You can buy the civilian version (of the QBZ 97, 5.56 NATO) in Canada, but you won’t find it in America. This is probably because America is full of anti-communists, who won’t buy a thing we make.
Looks like a bunch of cheap chi-com crap to me.
They should have copied some designs and internal mechanism from other famous submachine guns… That’s what Chinese always do when they make their firearms.
i kinda think it looks like a sig AR variant
I agree with Matt.
“It looks a lot like what I would expect the child of a Sig 550 rifle and an H&K MP5 submachine gun would look like.”
To me it looks more like a copy of the H&K UMP.
http://www.hkpro.com/ump.htm
“Communists using MP5s is nothing short of blasphemy.”
On second thought… no comment.
At least they’re keeping their hands off of real MP5s. Communists using MP5s is nothing short of blasphemy.