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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!cbvox1.att.com!lvc
- From: lvc@cbvox1.att.com
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock Carbines (was Re: MP-5 question)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174100.20542@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:50:54 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.
- Lines: 26
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1993Jan22.214412.10897@univel.com> Thi_Huynh@univel.COM (Saigon Smuggler) writes:
- #In article <1993Jan21.174711.7856@netcom.com>, pismobch@netcom.com (Ed Devinney) writes:
- #|> Has anyone fired the SP89? Can you do it one-handed? Accurately? It
- #|> would seem to have the same problem as the full-sized Uzi 'pistols' - one
- #|> hand supporting a carbine-weight weapon).
- #
- #Gun Test did a review on this H&K about a year ago. If I recall correctly,
- #they mentioned that the gun has no practical purposes except plinking.
-
- Or converting it to an MP5K; actually, /if/ what Christopher Crobaugh
- reports on tpg [imported ammo and guns stopped by US State Dept.] is
- true, there will be no more SP89s coming in, and thus no more MP5K
- conversions except from SP89s already in the US.
-
- #Never fired one but held one at a local gun store, I would say that with
- #a 30-round magazine, and no stock,
-
- It's a pistol, so it can't have a stock by law, otherwise it would be
- a short barrel rifle... If it's converted to an MP5K then you can add
- a /folding/ stock to it.
-
- #And it is expensive!
-
- About $1200.
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- Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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