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Old 05-27-2012, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Trooper View Post
Well lets say thats what police says. Some MP-5s are semiauto only, but police also have automatic weapons like MP-5s, silenced MP-5s, sterlings, Swedish-K:s, Suomis and H&K and Sig assault rifles.

Politically correct term for semi-auto MP-5 is "support weapon". Most police officers use "support weapon". I have trained with our local PD and in that training we used full auto version of MP-5.
They must have been ERTI-task force (probably Karhu), then. The military grade hardware for them is off limits by the law otherwise. If I may ask, what kind of a circumstance was it when you trained with them - I'm just curious, since I have some history of co-operating with various PDs in Finland and I've never seen them carry a fully automatic weapon.

(ERTI: erityistilanne = special circumstances, usually siege or heavily armed criminals etc.)
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