Gun Review: Bringing back the classics with the Zenith Z-5P (VIDEO)

By Chase Welch

If you were like me as a kid then you grew up watching action movies where black clad commandos rappelled in through the roof with MP5’s blazing, or you cut your teeth on games like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 where the MP5SD was a silent death dealer. It’s perhaps the most ubiquitous pistol caliber carbine on the planet. With around 100 variants and over 40 nations having adopted it for their police and military, it may just be one of the most recognizable firearms in modern history. So to say that this has been a bucket list gun for me is not an exaggeration!
The History Behind the Gun
Enter Zenith Firearms in Afton,Virginia. A bit of backstory here; about 40 years ago, the Turkish arsenal MKE (the oldest continually operating armory in the world) purchased original tooling, dies, machinery and schematics from H&K in Oberndorf, Germany and began producing true to spec roller locked/delayed MP5s as well as other variants. In 2014, Zenith Firearms partnered with MKE to bring these firearms to the American public, for about $1,000 less than then you’ll ever find an H&K MP5, or other clones for. So needless to say, for most of us, it’s a

Source: Guns.com