Local county selling Colt Thompson

[kingjason]

Nice. I know in the 80s my boss at TFB had an MP5SD on his SRT team but said they never once used full auto in any altercation. It really does have a limited use in law enforcement due to potential collateral damage, etc. but I do think they should still have it for things like the LA bank robbery and whatnot (for specially trained officers).

You know, I just can not ever see a reason for full auto. Well, unless predator drops in, then I want the rail gun. Three round bursts I can see, but just not full auto.

[Moose242]

You know, I just can not ever see a reason for full auto. Well, unless predator drops in, then I want the rail gun. Three round bursts I can see, but just not full auto.

A well trained individual will use the auto mechanism for bursts. I really hate burst because of their overcomplicated mechanisms. For example, on an M-16 if you fire two rounds on semi automatic and then switch to burst, you pull the trigger and only get one shot because the burst cam rotates regardless.

Ideally you get both burst and auto settings though.

[YALE]

The crazy burst settings on some of those HK's are awesome.

[Moose242]

The crazy burst settings on some of those HK's are awesome.

Yeah but the mechanisms are ludicrously complex. Burst pack service & maintenence is a whole armorer class, lol.

The navy ditched burst on MP5Ns because people reinstalled stuff backwards which resulted in runaways.

[YALE]

Yeah but the mechanisms are ludicrously complex. Burst pack service & maintenence is a whole armorer class, lol.

The navy ditched burst on MP5Ns because people reinstalled stuff backwards which resulted in runaways.

That's nuts.

[David]

Post sample mp5s are $1k-$2k all day long. Sometimes free for trade of an AR15.

[YALE]

Alex, buy my AR-15.

[Chas_svo]

Post sample mp5s are $1k-$2k all day long. Sometimes free for trade of an AR15.

Hook me up?

[David]

Hook me up?

Become a dealer and I can get you a demo letter. Or go the manufacturer route and find someone else surrendering their license.

[Moose242]

Become a dealer and I can get you a demo letter. Or go the manufacturer route and find someone else surrendering their license.

No letter post sample mp5s go for 5k or so.

But on Sturm the going price for a post sample mp5 right from police inventory to you (dealers are constantly brokering them for PDs) with a letter is about $1,500 or so. A new one from HK Defense isn't much more though, of course they now cannot sell to anyone but the end user due to German law.

[Chas_svo]

Become a dealer and I can get you a demo letter. Or go the manufacturer route and find someone else surrendering their license.

Trying to avoid that. The cost involved doesn't work out for one MP5, and I don't have time to actually run that as a business. I just want one semi-auto, so will probably go with a conversion like Alex suggested elsewhere. There are some delirious folks on gunbroker and such...or I'm a cheap bastard, which is quite possible.

Edit. See Alex's post above.

[racrguy]

In a limited capacity. Most jurisdictions will not allow full auto for all but the higher end swat folks, and even that is rare.

The advent of the short, cheap 5.56 rifle has dethroned the MP5 with police.

Thanks for the explanation.

[phaux]

You know, I just can not ever see a reason for full auto. Well, unless predator drops in, then I want the rail gun. Three round bursts I can see, but just not full auto.

Suppressive fire, or in the case of pistol calibers, room clearing.

[Chas_svo]

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The advent of the short, cheap 5.56 rifle has dethroned the MP5 with police.

You're right, I do want both!

[svauto-erotic855]

Love when this happens.

You would be surprised how many transferable machineguns are sitting in police armories across the US.

When I was a kid the Highland Village PD had some old school M16s and M14s and one M2 carbine. I am sure that they are still floating around there.