HK SP5

LET’S DO THE TIME WARP!

By Patrick Sweeney Cover and lead photo by Mike Anschuetz

The year was 1956, and the West German Army had a problem They did not have a suitable rifle to arm their troops with Oh, they had ware houses of rifles on hand (Well, there were warehouses in Germany full of them) stuffed with Mauser 98K rifles, but no one was fighting wars with bolt guns any more. They could use M1 Garands, of which there were plenty, but the US army had just pulled the rug out from all their NATO allies, and insisted on adopt ing the M14 for themselves, and its 308 cartridge with it And at the same time also forcing NATO to adopt the 308 Winchester cartridge instead of the medium bore alternatives they had been working on Adopt the M14? That might have been…

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