It was widely used by SWAT teams in North America, but has since been supplanted by M16 rifle variants in the 21st century.
The MP5 is one of the most widely used submachine guns in the world, having been adopted by 40 nations and numerous military, law enforcement, intelligence, and security organizations. There are over 100 variants and clones of the MP5, including some semi-automatic versions. The MP5 ( German: Maschinenpistole 5) is a 9x19mm Parabellum submachine gun, developed in the 1960s by a team of engineers from the German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K) of Oberndorf am Neckar. 100 m (328 ft) ( MP5K, MP5KA1, MP5KA4, MP5KA5, MP5K-PDW)ġ5, 30, 40, or 50 round detachable box magazine and 100-round Beta C-Mag drum magazine.Tilo Möller, Manfred Guhring, Georg Seidl, Helmut Baureuter