#Heckler&Koch

With the Heckler & Koch MR223 A3 (European version) being virtually impossible to source in Europe as the Heckler & Koch factory has chosen to focus on finishing Military and Law Enforcement orders it is interesting to see the MR556A1 Upper Receiver Kit on offer in the US webshop.

Spain’s oldest law enforcement agency, the Guardia Civil, have agreed a pair of contracts to procure new HK G36s and MP5s. Spain have ordered 425 5.56x45mm G36K carbines at a cost of 699,380 Euros or $790,372, giving a unit price of just under $1,540 per carbine. The carbines will ship with a 1.5x optic, 2 magazines, sling, cleaning kit and manual.

For the month of May, we challenged our readers with the difficult to define category of the “ BEST Compact Striker Fired Pistol” for the  Reader’s Choice. We understand some of you disagreed with our definition of where the line should be drawn for a “Compact,” but the definition we used was any pistol that has a 4″ barrel or shorter, AND has a staggered or double-stacked magazine. For this month, we put out 8 of our own suggestions and you similarly provided us with 8 great suggestions through your Comments. The winner of the “ BEST Compact Striker Fired Pistol” for the  Reader’s Choice was the…  SIG Sauer P365 9mm!!! Most of us will undoubtedly acknowledge the popularity of the SIG Sauer P365, but what many shooters do not realize is this pistol is a staggered/double stack magazine. That is why it is so impressive the  SIG Sauer P365 9mm is so tiny when it can hide 12 rounds of 9mm in its frame. The rest of the results for May’s “ BEST Compact Striker Fired Pistol” are…

The first quarterly financial report for 2019 is in, and we conclude that Heckler & Koch continues to fight their red numbers.

When we think of the iconic Cold War G3, we automatically think Heckler & Koch – but that wasn’t always the case. When the fledgling West German Army adopted the, now famous, roller-delayed rifle it was produced by not just H&K but another famous German arms manufacturer – Rheinmetall.

Back in April 2018, we reported that Germany’s Hesse state police were in search for a new 5.56x45mm rifle. German defence blog Strategie-Technik reports that Hessian state police have selected a variant of the Heckler & Koch HK416.

With summer approaching that brings us warmer weather and new options to carry firearms! We might be rockin’ cargo shorts versus parkas, and we may be looking for smaller guns to be rockin’ as well. So as we begin May we have made it into our 7th edition of the  Reader’s Choice Awards! For the month of May, we want you all to vote on the “BEST Compact Striker Fired Pistol.” We will later define for our voting what a Compact actually is in our eyes, but for now, we want to see a barrage of Comments, arguments, and possibly compliments to people’s suggestions of what is the “BEST Compact Striker Fired Pistol.”

“Prepare for tomorrow’s threats, today” – that is the motto of the Norwegian Marinejegerkommandoen (MJK), a unit name that translates to the Norwegian Naval Special Operation Commando.

Here’s the tweet:

The online edition of the German newspaper Die Welt, reports that H&K management demands the company workforce to work 2.5 to 3 unpaid hours per week. This wage cut is apparently part of a company-wide cost cutting plan.

Today’s photo of the day is a Heckler & Koch HK33 field stripped. Introduced in the late 1960s, the HK33 was Heckler & Koch’s response to the emergence of the new 5.56x45mm round and FN’s introduction of the FN CAL. The HK33 was essentially a scaled-down G3. While the HK33 wasn’t adopted by West Germany it proved a popular export rifle and remained into production into the 1980s. The Heckler & Koch HK43 and later HK93 were imported to the US but this example is a full-auto military T&E rifle.

Everyone loves Kraut Space Magic, the Heckler & Koch G11 in particular, so may you have recently seen some photos on social media of a pretty impressive Heckler & Koch G11K2 prop build. HK were so impressed they even shared it on their Instagram page:

The US Army has been testing its new precision rifles, the Squad Designated Marksman Rifle and the Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle and the first feedback from troops is coming in. Last year TFB reported the adoption of the two new rifles, which are both based on Heckler & Koch’s 7.62x51mm HK417.

According to this report from the French Armed Forces, they seem very happy with their new Heckler & Koch HK416Fs in the deserts of Sahel. They have used the HK416 out to 600 meters, with good results.

A Stuttgart court has passed judgement in the case that accused five Heckler & Koch employees of illegally selling firearms to Mexico. Heckler & Koch were found guilty of breaking Germany’s ‘War Weapons Control Act’ by selling over 4,000 HK G36s to the Mexican government buyer. As a result the company have been fined 3.7 million Euros or $4.2 million.