The small arms thread, General Macarthur's eternal war on hippies.

Donward, on Sep 23 2014 - 02:37, said: A handful of events led to the MP5's raise in popularity.   The 1972 debacle at Munich where German police botched the rescue of Israel's Olympic athletes held hostage by Black September created an incentive to arm and train a professional counter-terrorist unit, in GSG9.   And once the SAS showed how sexy the MP5 was during the 1980 Iranian Embassy operation in London, every police force and counter-terrorism outfit just had to have one.