H&K Will Never Sell Us The MP7 Because Its Not A Sporting Gun
UPDATE: H&K denies the allegations made by Jerry Tsai.
Jerry Tsai, editor of RECOIL, has apologised for publicly agreeing with an H&K representative who said H&K would never sell the H&K MP7A1 to consumers because the gun has no sporting purpose. I accept Jerry apology, it is H&K’s company policy that I have a problem with.
I think it goes without saying that I do not think that only guns with a “sporting purpose” should be sold to civilians, but I would argue that regardless the MP7 and the 4.6x30mm cartridge have plenty of sporting uses.
Varminters and wildcatters would go nuts for a new .17 caliber cartridge and within no time someone would begin producing bolt action rifles chambered in it.
FN USA should be commended for bringing the P90, a gun in the same class as the MP7, to market as the civilian legal FN PS90 Carbine.
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If you can shoot a paper target it’s
a sporting gun. People get to hung up on "GUN LOOKS" all guns work
the same way except size, weight, and capacity. You pull the trigger, round
goes down range. Most people shoot responsibly and you can't get caught up worrying
about .001% that might do something stupid. We all have a right to have fun and
the right to protect our self.
I think the reason why HK issued that statement because in Germany you only get guns for sporting purposes. As some of you may know Guns and Gun owner ship other then for sporting purposes is a very controversial topic in Germany