Anyone know what firearm this is?

w00811 · Post by **w00811** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:57 pm

Hello guys,

I was reading a news article here in the UK, and I wondered if I could tap into peoples' firearms knowledge. Anyone Know what the guy in the pic is wielding? I have not seen anything quite like it.

Cheers,

W00811

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6267497.stm

Post by **kman** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:09 pm

Looks like it's a Heckler & Koch MP7:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_MP7

Looks like a cool little gun (it's billed as a personal defense weapon). It has the same action as the G36 and fires s specially designed armour-piercing round.

I found an article on the introduction of the new weapon to the MoD Police here:

http://www.noticias.info/Archivo/2005/2 ... 50330.shtm

I was just thinking that this sounded like a competitor to the FN P90 when I saw this quote in the wikipedia article:

The MP7 is marketed as a direct competitor to the FN P90. Some observers make the distinction that the MP7 is closer to a true machine pistol than a submachine gun. The FN P90 features a simpler delayed blowback design that fires with a closed breech, so there is no rotating bolt or gas system, but it is bulkier and heavier than the MP7.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90

w00811 · Post by **w00811** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:20 pm

Thanks for the info Kman, very interesting. It is very duturistic looking! its quite unusual for a scope to be mounted on a PDW as in the picture.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:25 pm

Hehehe Kman, you're lots faster than I am

Here's a description:

http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg49-e.htm