The US dropped the Thompson drums, the Finns went form a drum to a box magazine for the Suomi, the Soviets dropped the PPSh-41 drum in favor of a box mag on the PPS-43, and neither the Lewis nor DP was followed by another gun using their pan magazines. However, what I find telling is that virtually no military adopted two drums in a row. Drum magazines are a tempting idea, and they periodically pop up in military usage around the world. Drum magazines are heavier, more expensive to make, and much more complicated to carry than simple box magazines. However, there are several other elements to the question, and drums don't fare so well with most of them. People often view the box vs drum magazine question simply in terms of capacity - where the drum is obviously superior. I often see questions form people asking why drum magazines are not more widely used - the BAR and the MP40/I in particular. Thanks to H&K for letting me film in the Grey Room for you! The P7M10 is a scarce and collectible gun among a niche group today, simply because of its small production numbers. Enough remained in inventory to list in H&K's 1995 catalog, but they were gone by 1996. With the M13 removed from manufacture, the M10 no longer made sense to build.
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The ban prohibited importation of the P7M13, and while the M10 had legally-acceptable 10-round magazines, it was clearly a poor seller and was based not he M13 production infrastructure. The poor handling and looks of the gun prevented any major agency sales, and the gun was taken out of production in 1994 when the AWB passed. 40 was a very popular cartridge at the time. The effort had been aimed at law enforcement sales, for whom the. In addition to slowing the opening of the slide, this extra mass substantially handicapped the pistol's handling, making it top-heavy and bulky. 40 S&W cartridge, although this was not a universally shared determination. This extra mass was deemed necessary by Oberndorf engineers to safely handle the. 40 caliber barrel and a substantially increased slide mass.
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Introduced in 1991, the M10 was based on the frame and magazine body of the double-stack P7M13, with a. PPK Var 4: External numbered slide, military finish, 382985K - 426712KĮveryone has an off day eventually, and for H&K one of those off days took the form of the P7M10. PPK Var 3: External numbered slide, high polish, 242844K - 330358K PP Var 4: External numbered slide, military finish, 331xxxP - 333xxxP PP Var 3: External numbered slide, high polish. To see more about Legacy, check out their YouTube channel: If you would like more information or authentication of a Walther PP or PPK, Tom is happy to help (free of charge), and can be reached at. Tracing back these specific guns has been done by a group of researchers using the archives preserved by the American and German armed forces.
They were not the only such special contracts, as such arrangements were also made for organizations like railway security and bank guards. These guns comprised several special contracts, distinct from general military and commercial production. Today, courtesy of Tom from Legacy Collectibles, we are taking a look at Walther PP and PPK pistols made specifically for the SS.
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No other sales were made of the designs, but much of the developmental work would be put into the UMP program that came afterward. The Navy tested both models, and decided that neither warranted replacement of the MP5. It could reportedly reduce muzzle velocity from 350 m/s (1150 fps) to 305 m/s (1000 fps), thus bringing it below the speed of sound. A pressure vessel under the barrel was connected to the barrel via a set of holes just in front of the chamber, and when opened it would reduce chamber pressure and thus velocity. The SMG II reverted to a more standard HK drum rear sight, but added a very interesting velocity-reduction system. The early pattern had a remarkably complex rear sight offering two different sets of range calibrations for subsonic and supersonic ammunition (out to 150m). They had collapsing stocks similar to what would later be used on the MP7, and vertical front grips. H&K built two models of experimental guns in the 1980s to meet this request, creatively named the SMG and SMG II.īoth guns were hammer fired, closed bolt designs that used simple blowback actions. In particular, the Navy wanted a gun that was optimized for use with a suppressor. In the 1980s, the US Navy requested a new submachine gun to replace the MP5 then in use.