POTD: HK’s First 5.56 Rifle – the HK33

By Matthew Moss

Today’s photo of the day is a Heckler & Koch HK33 field stripped. Introduced in the late 1960s, the HK33 was Heckler & Koch’s response to the emergence of the new 5.56x45mm round and FN’s introduction of the FN CAL. The HK33 was essentially a scaled-down G3. While the HK33 wasn’t adopted by West Germany […]

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