SilencerCo Arsenal: MP7 – Gun Review

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

SILENCERCO’S ARSENAL SERIES showcases guns we love for various reasons that reside in our in-house arsenal. We are best-known for making guns quiet–in order to do this, we must interact with a great variety of amazing platforms. In these posts we will tell you about each platform we like, why it’s different and relevant, and why we think it belongs in our pantheon of greatness.

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- After a proliferation of overbuilt subguns with pistol grip magazines in the 60s, 70s, and 80s like the Uzi, the Steyr SA23, and the Ingram MAC series, there wasn’t a modern offering made with lightweight composite materials until the MP7 in 2001.

The MP7 is a German Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) manufactured by Heckler & Koch and chambered for the HK 4.6x30mm cartridge. This round is exclusive to the MP7, and was designed in response to NATO’s requirements published in 1989. The requirements called for a personal defense weapon class firearm, with a greater ability to penetrate body armor. The cartridge resulted in a light round with less recoil fired at high velocity so that it could still penetrate armor.

The MP7 went into production in …Read the Rest

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