{"id":122414,"date":"2020-01-27T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=122414"},"modified":"2020-01-27T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:40:41","slug":"hks-sp5-shot-show-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hks-sp5-shot-show-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"All Your Wildest Dreams Have Come True: HK’s SP5 – SHOT Show 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is H&K’s semi-auto version of the venerable MP5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The HK MP5 is one of the most iconic guns of the last 50 years, and now you can enjoy a genuine Heckler & Koch-made semi-automatic version: The SP5<\/a> is finally here. True Pearce spoke with H&K about it at the range at SHOT Show 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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This is about as close to an authentic MP5 many people will get in a generation. Manufactured by HK in Germany, the SP5 has all of the look, feel and controls of an MP5 in a consumer-friendly commercial version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been many attempts by a string of companies to bring a semi-automatic version of the MP5 to the American market including Heckler & Koch, but everything from questionable manufacturing overseas to deliberate action by U.S. officials has largely prevented this product from making a strong showing outside of movies, TV shows, and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While it still has a couple of small, but telltale signs of being a civilian-oriented pistol, the SP5 is, for all intents and purposes, the most real version of a semi-auto MP5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main thing about the SP5 is that it\u2019s made by HK, the original supplier of the MP5, and not a licensed replica or post-patent clone or knockoff. The receiver and grip module are slightly altered to make them incompatible with full-auto components, but unlike early HK semi-autos, have ambidextrous controls including the paddle magazine release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another small change is that the SP5 comes with a pistol rear sight turret, not a submachine gun sight. It is compatible with factory and standard aftermarket rear sights, though. Also, the SP5 comes with a modified 3-lug suppressor mount with 1\/2-28 threads under a knurled thread protector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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