![]() I would go on to feature the MP5 in movies, like Screen Gems Studios’ The Cutoff, The Prodigy, and others. DeNiro was the chief Weapons Armorer for the film and had six “MP5s” on set for five weeks - all were converted HK94s. Vincent DeNiro (center), holding an MP5 while working on the HBO World Premiere Movie Rogue Force starring Michael Rooker and Robert Patrick. We went through over 6,000 9mm blanks that day (Hey, young guys and newbies - I never used a magazine loader!). For the HBO World Première Movie Rogue Force (1997), starring Michael Rooker and Robert Patrick, I had six on set, and for one big shootout scene (filmed over a 10-hour period), I had more than 90 MP5 magazines loaded ready to go. In the 1990s, while in between working in the gun industry, I provided firearms and special effects to the movie industry ( ), and MP5s acquired from Stembridge movie gun rentals were always a favorite. ![]() I shot my first MP5/select-fire converted HK94 in the late 1980s and even had one for sale at my gun store during that time - the price then was under $900. The 1989 MSRP was $932 and $1,098 for the A3 model with retractable stock. (Funny how Republicans manage to pass gun control while stating that they support the 2nd Amendment, isn’t it?) A catalog listing for the HK94 which appeared in the Guns & Ammo Annual in the late 1980s. Bush banned all imported “assault weapons” in 1989 (after making the pledge of “No new gun laws!” in 1988) so that was the end of the HK line of firearms in their proper configurations. The NRA vowed to reverse the law, and after 33 years, we are all still waiting. With the signature of “pro-gun” President Ronald Reagan (who later supported “assault weapons” bans) in 1986, the Hughes Amendment was signed into law attached to the Firearms Owners Protection Act, and that was the end of any newly produced machine-guns for civilian sales. ![]() By 1985, the MP5, or converted HK94s, began showing up in movies, and one movie which first prominently featured the MP5 on its movie poster was the film Stick starring Burt Reynolds.īy the late 1980s, the MP5 shoved the UZI into second place as far as movie subguns were concerned (in a similar way that the UZI shoved the Thompson into second place years before). Many Class 2 manufacturers like Fleming Firearms, S&H, and Hard Times Armory began offering transferable, converted to select-fire, HK94s. The early 1980s were the time of full-auto conversions, and these could be done legally at home by yourself, if you had the skills, as long as you possessed an approved ATF Form 1 from the BATF. Curtis Earl’s machine-gun catalog back in the late 1970s. The only other places I saw photos of the MP5 prior to this were in books like Ian Hogg’s The Machine-Gun, some gun magazines, and a late 1960s original in J. The price for an HK94 A2 in 1984 was $650, $720 if you wanted the retractable stock. I remember seeing the HK94, a semi-auto, commercial version of the MP5, around 1983, in gun magazines and, being a fan of the Heckler & Koch HK93 and HK91 rifles, I was interested. It was state of the art back then and many of us remember the Secret Service Agent who pulled the UZI SMG from a briefcase to protect President Reagan after he had been shot by John Hinckley Jr. Back in 1981 or so, I got my first UZI carbine. ![]() The MP5 submachine gun took over where the UZI sub machinegun left off in the mid-1980s as the subgun of choice or desire.
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