H&K's New SP5 - A Civilian Semiauto MP5 Pistol 

Hey, where are you? Get back here!!

Very interesting to see HK offering an MP5 that isn't made entirely out of unobtainium!

Great video, Ian. Hope you enjoyed your T&E copy as much as I enjoyed mine. - James

H&K a few years ago " we're very responsible where and who we sell guns too " H&K 2019 " hey, this PCC thing is skyrocketing and other companies are killing it selling them to the largest market in the world " "Dieter, get the screwdriver and a ton of boxes"

When this video was a few hours late appearing, the day after Forgotten Weapons had rashly filmed himself making eyes at a British auto-ejecting revolver, I feared that his French firearms collection might have collectively shot him in a crime passionnel!

"Now... I have... a wrist brace Ho Ho Ho"

5:40 1 - Fire no rounds 2 - Fire one round 3 - Fire three rounds 4 - Yes

IT HAS A PADDLE MAG RELEASE YES

Goddamnit i just SBR'd my PTR9

One of the first guns I recognized as a kid, such an iconic 'special forces' gun.

HK: *includes the paddle mag release* American gun bois : “Did you just understand me?”

"you asked for a miracle, gentlemen; I give you the S... P... 5" 🤔😂 "It's Xmas Theo, The time of miracles..." Dat roller delayed blowback doe.

Disappointing you didn't present this wearing a flash hood and a gas mask.

I already know before I start the video that I'm too much of a poor. But one day my Die Hard larp will be real.

Soooo glad to hear HK is finally selling a semi auto MP5. Took long enough..

Inb4 'Gib civillian MP7 pls'

HK ceo: (z-5rs falls on car) HK ceo: (calls in sp5 backup) US market: "welcome to the party pal"

That roller blowback took me ages to get my head around when I first looked into action types. Great design!!

2:49 This is an image of British SAS commandos storming the Iranian Embassy in London when it was held by terrorists in 1980 - in case you didn't already know that. :)

God I love that gun. I carried an SD as my backup for 8 years. Wish I could have smuggled one out. :p

Thank you Ian for showing the Iconic Iranian Embassy seige 1980 and the SAS storming in armed with the legendary MP 5.

"Smile Karl, we're back in business!"

This video makes me so happy. I've been wanting to pick up a pistol caliber "carbine" for a while now but haven't been able to decide which one to go with. I've wanted an MP5 for over 25 years. I've been very wary of the MP5 clones, so this will do nicely. Now to prepare myself for the sticker shock when I get the courage to go look up the MSRP.

"Hello, welcome back to the least forgotten weapons on all time, im your host" Fixed your intro

Not an American so I can't get one, but I'm so thrilled for you guys. And it's December, almost time for Die Hard.

I think Lieutenant John Mclane did wonders for the MP5's rep too lol.

damn I cant get enough of you Ian. u da man

Thank you so much for your time and sharing your knowledge. Your calm tone makes understanding information so much easier. I just subscribed.

Now one of my favorite guns is within reach! Thank you, Ian, for this review.

When I did my year of conscription in the RNoAF, our instructors told us: You know that action movie you like, no matter which movie it is, this is the gun they use.

used a MP5N for 15 years in Marine Recon til they phazed them out solid weapon

I remember the instructor making a particular point of the "HK slap" when I did the "rent a machine gun" thing with an MP5 at an indoor range once. The range employee who showed me how to work it was a laconic character--his actual words, as close as I can remember them a few years later, were "... an' then give 'er a smack. You can't [redacted] around with it, just whack it in good shape. It's German, you ain't gonna hurt it." Which rather set the tone for the whole experience. :) (The "safety briefing" portion of this same instructional session included the sentence, "Let's try an' keep it outta the ceiling," which turned out to be pretty easy with the ol' MP5. The old Mk I IBM Selectric is harder to control, although the consquences of losing control of a Selectric are less dramatic.)

Nice, my favorite manufacturer releases a semi-auto version of one of my favorite guns on my birthday.

And knowing H&K it's probably $3000 for a gun that is sold to law enforcement for $700...

One of my favorite things about watching movies in the 80s and 90s was looking at all the MP5s that were on screen and noting that they were pretty much all full auto converted hk94s due to the lack of the paddle release.

Good on H&K! We, in the US, have been waiting on something like this for SO long.

Maybe they'll see the light and re-introduce the P7!

That's really cool. Always loved the MP-5 design.

Ah a late upload. I always get your video perfectly timed at lunch time in my country 1pm. Had me worried for a bit

Oh my god I don't know why I find Ian just endlessly listing off all the MP5 variants so hilarious.

HK found Ian’s hiding spot, this was the only thing he could grab in his way out

thought this was AMMU-NATION!

As always Ian I did enjoy the video. Thanks and take care.

Picked mine up this past Friday. It is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

Have you done a review on the UMP? I like that, the way it looks, much more than the mp5 and would love to see a dismantle on the UMP.

Ian does a 20 minute h&K commercial

Very cool :) My favorite version will always be the MP5K. So awesome looking!

THANK YOU HK and Ian for sharing

Watching your videos has made me very knowledgeable about guns, to the point that it's amusing if anything gun related is brought up in conversation. I didn't know about H&K's nomenclature. You most likely won't see this but, would you consider doing a video about how other companies categorise/ organise their firearms or would this be too educational and stray too far from focusing on specific pieces?

Perfect fit for the channel IMO. Iconic, legandary design dating back to WWII. Im glad they are offering it again from factory HK

I got introduced to the MP5 in the original Rainbow Six game in the 90s, and I've been in love with the design ever since.

7:30 Ian: "Shoulder braces" ATF: "W U T 👁👄👁"

just a bit of trrivia: the ambidextrous safeties on H&K guns actually serve a purpose beyond just allowing left handed use. another purpose of the system is to allow users to operate the safety using their thumb OR trigger finger, you are actually supposed to use your trigger finger to engage the safety and your thumb to disengage the safety, i have seen people online operating the safety thumb only and then complain about it being awkward to use, so i decided to point it out.

Dear Santa, I swear I've been good...

That's why the upload was a little late this morning. Congratulations on being one of the first to see and handle it. Shooting video tomorrow?😍

Thanks for the explanation of the delayed roller system - I didn’t know how it worked 👍

If you've never shot an MP-5 you don't know what you're missing.

Awesome! Always loved H&K

Merry Christmas!

i don't mind these modern and historic weapons videos, i still learn a ton even if they aren't obscure.

Love it, want it, want a proper Select Fire more, my favorite ranges have them !

I was considering getting into mp5’s but now that they’ve gotten the masses attention back I won’t be able to find anything “reasonably” priced for about 6 months, Thanks HK.

Thanks Ian. You’re a great historian

Well done, as usual. Thank you.

“Hopefully this will lead to legal reforms in the us” do you mean banning arm braces or make sbr’s not registered?

13:20 Funny, i remember the Bundeswehr Drill Instructor in Basic Training forbidding us to slap the charging handle when loading the G3, so we don't damage Gouverment property.

I have an HK-94 and it is truly AWESOME.

I'm a retired SWAT commander here in Texas. I've sent literally millions of rounds downrange with the mp5, in both 9mm and .40S&W. If I were being dropped in a war zone and could only take two sidearms, they would be H&K and Glock. When your life rests on your weapons ability to go bang every single time, these two manufacturers simply cannot be beat. I collect firearms and I miss the MP5. I believe I'll pick an SP5 up. Thanks for making this video, I had been wondering if the civilian version was worth owning. In the twenty years or so that I was involved with SWAT, we had no mp5 failures whatsoever. I was one of our armorers, so I saw firsthand the wear in the guns, and they held up amazingly well to probably the roughest duty imaginable. Nobody spends as much time or as much ammo practicing as SWAT does. You practice as realistically as possible, so the guns go through hell. Gotta love those Germans.

I have ALWAYS loved the MP5 and hope to one day own one of my own. My .22 clone is not cutting it anymore!

i hope they release on with a stock in europe! I'd buy that

I have a civilian marketed G36C it's comfortable it is not at all awkward to use I have the very gun you are reviewing and it works so well

Ooh, shiny. Thank you Ian and HK.

I see's it, I want's it, I's gotta get's it, I's gonna get's it

"HK slap damages the gun." That's the first time I heard that. How can anyone so gullible and worried still have the confidence to actually fire a gun?

Nice, would still love to see some shooting with this particular pistol model.

Just in time for Santa! Will be getting my grubby little hands on one of these!

Wow, HK giving people something they really want?

It’s simple I see forgotten weapons I click

That $2800 MSRP is a serious dealbreaker

Nice pistol. I had an opportunity to shoot a MP5 with suppressor while I was in the military. Very nice. Very quiet.

sometimes I can't watch the videos all the way through. simply because I want one so bad, I get frustrated because I can't afford them. But I always click a thumbs up even before I watch. never have I found anything you've done deserving of a "dislike"

Well since as a dealer we can almost never frond the SP5K, I’m not super optimistic that HK will have these available to dealers (the public) anytime soon. HK needs to step up their civilian firearms game and put a priory on manufacturing to the US.

Awesome video 👍

Love the tech detail in your videos! Could you please do a SP5K disassembly video or direct comparison with the SP5 Model?

This makes me want to watch Die Hard again!

For April Fool's Day Ian and Jimmy "Booty-Shorts" Reeves at TFB should trade places and do videos in each other's style. Yes, Ian, that means shooting a Glock pistol wearing booty shorts to bad techno music. Yes, James, that means wearing a finely-trimmed goatee and hat and giving a serious talk about a firearm.

i like to think that Ian and his cameraman are master cat burglars and they break into all these armories in order to make videos about interesting and rare weapons

This was a fantastic historical overview

Can we get an SP7 pretty please?

CIP is just some European proofing. "Commission internationale permanente pour l'épreuve des armes à feu portatives" and the SP5 got proofed for ordinary use ("N"). I have these markings on all of my guns as an owner in France because it's mandatory here.

Damnit Ian, Now I have to decide if the kids are getting Christmas presents this year...

The HK webstore has the genuine MP5 stock available! The stars are aligning.

"Yippee-ki-yay, mo**********!"

"No officer, this isn't a machine gun . . ."

Excellent. Very informative. 🖖

Very cool, You were local as well. Virginia welcomes you.

"Shoulder" brace LOL!

Customers: "Do you sell shoulder stocks? People would love to buy original parts." HK: "Pfff! Nein! Humbug!" also HK: "I wonder why we don't make enough money and are in debt."

Love that sp5! Can’t wait till armorers class tomorrow!!

Hearing the description of the early days of the MP5K reminds me how old I am...it only seems yesterday.