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H&K USC: Civilian Version of the UMP Submachine Gun (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-08-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTCHeckler & Koch introduced the UMP submachine gun as a successor to the MP5, with a particular focus on American law enforcement agencies (hence its initial development in .45 ACP). The UMP never has come close to the popularity of the MP5; it is a very basic polymer molded simple blowback SMG, albeit a hammer-fired, closed-bolt one. However, H&K did release a civilian version of it in semiautomatic only; the USC. These were initially made in a grey color like the SL-8, but demand was substantial enough to prompt continued production in black.
Compared to the UMP, the USC has a neutered magazine well that fits only proprietary 10-round magazines, a thumbhole type fixed stock, and a heavy 16" barrel. I suspect a majority of the demand for the USC comes form people planning to swap out all these elements to properly clone the UMP...
Comments
Eugene Neigoff
I have one of the gray USC which I purchased in the 1990’s. My gun was dyed black and a new fire control group that uses M3 Submachine magazines. The system does not have the bolt hold-open feature. The system modification is not a good one. The choice magazines need to modified to function. The reason is the feeding of Cast Bullets. Accuracy is great with both cast & jacketed bullets.
Christian D. Orr
USC, like my alma mater (University of Southern California, that is, ***not*** South Carolina), Fight On, Trojans!!! ✌️✌️✌️
z c
Id just pick up the LWRC SMG 45 if I wanted an UMP. Hopefully they fixed the issues it had
Guido Schriewer
one doesn't see those all THAT often in competitions. and frankly most reports... owners doesn't seem too happy with those. I assume magazin design. ammo sensitive, too. (and buttugly looks). in 9 of course but the beretta's are WAY better liked.
BEAUSABRE23
Not any more. You could have gotten in on the electronic watch when it was demonstrated in Zurich, but were in love with your mechanical watches and the boat sailed without you. So you became chopped liver
BEAUSABRE23
You KNOW that someone is making a UMP style buttstock you can slap on to the USC and someone else has dreamed up a high capacity magazine for it. Why? Because this is the United States of America, that's why.
Terry
“This is such a German design”, The Swiss: what are we, watches?
