#4.6x30mm

The Heckler & Koch MP7. The gun that everyone wants (until it’s time to pay for ammo), but no one can get. As one of the comments read: “You have a better chance of running over Bigfoot on a unicorn than bringing that home.” In today’s  Photo Of The Day, we have a Bundeswehr soldier holding a Heckler & Koch MP7. The image above is from a joint exercise and demonstration with Dutch forces.

If you’ve ever wished you could have an AR chambered in 4.6×30mm then CMMG have you covered. They have announced the introduction of the FourSix, based on their Mk4 platform, it chambers the round developed for Heckler & Koch’s MP7. So if you thought the recent run of new pistols and carbines chambered in FN’s 5.7mm round was too mainstream then the Banshee MK4 FourSix might be the gun for you!

Norway has a special relationship with the Heckler & Koch MP7 (from Maschinenpistole 7), as they are most likely the country that has bought most of them. If we trust Wikipedia as a source, the numbers are around 6,500 as it replaced (some of) the HK MP5s. Even some soldiers in the Norwegian Home Guard have it.

Jagemann Sporting Group is a manufacturing company, which makes brass cases and polymer magazines.

If the 5.7x28mm FN is the first successful modern PDW round, then the 4.6x30mm HK is the second, and its biggest rival. German firm Heckler and developed the microcaliber 4.6mm in the 1990s as a response to a NATO solicitation for a Personal Defense Weapon, to which they submitted their new HK PDW (later MP7) chambered for the new round.