Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Spktyr
All of the terrs I’ve seen pictures of in this incident were carrying some AK clone or variant.

Now, if MP5s are showing up in the terr’s hands, they’re probably not getting them from H&K directly. Pakistan Ordnance Factories has been manufacturing the MP5 under license for years. MP5s were made (and in many cases still are made) under license in Greece, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, France, Mexico and Pakistan. Iran also makes MP5s, but whether these are illegal clones or licensed copies is unclear.

And Great Britain as well, since the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield was stamping out MP5s and G3 rifles out both for British use- the airport guards at Heathrow and Gatwick, among others- and the British SAS and Marine Commandos. But they also provided numerous examples to client states in the former British Empire, and probably a couple of the Gulf States too.

You also left out Norway [Kongsberg] and Portugal as producers of members of the H&K producing nations. While I doubt that former Norwegian AG-3s [a bit more than a quarter million produced by Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk and now themselves being replaced by H&K41s] or MP5s that have now nearly replaced all the old leftover MP40 SMGs used by the Norwegian Armored Force are turning up in terrorist hands, those from FMP Portugal's former African colonies can and have turned up in all sorts of odd places. At least three factories in Sweden turned out license-built H&K arms as well, mostly the Swedish Ak 4 version of the G3A3.

The Iranian Diomil production facility was set up by H&K engineers in the days of the Shah, and production by Sazemane Sanaye Defahas continued under the reign of the mullahs of the Iranian Shiite brand of the *Religion of Peace,* who as we know are all kind and wonderful people.

So far as the South-West Asian region, the Bangladesh Ordnance Factory also is a licensed H&K producer.

103 posted on 11/30/2008 11:59:27 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies ]


To: archy

> those from FMP Portugal’s former African colonies can and have turned up in all sorts of odd places.

Could you tell me where?


117 posted on 12/03/2008 9:51:32 PM PST by Jacob Kell (MSM-Marxist Stalinist Media)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 103 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson