Hartford CourantVERNON — — The town council has approved a plan by the Vernon Police Department to replace its aging arsenal of handguns at no cost to town taxpayers. Police Chief James L. Kenny said Wednesday that rising costs and long waits for gun parts pushed him to ask the mayor and the town council for permission to trade the department's 12-year-old, Heckler & Koch USP...
Canada Dot ComAmmunition seized by Victoriapolice at Daniel Aitken's apartment on Dec. 24, 2002, was the same make and calibre as the kind used to kill Adan Merino two years later, admissions of fact at Aitken's first-degree murdertrial revealed yesterday. The admissions, signed by Aitken's defence lawyer Peter Firestone, were read into the B.C. Supreme Court record by Crown counsel Peter...
m&c;Stuttgart - Germanpolice searched the offices of Heckler and Koch, a German manufacturer of premium firearms, on Tuesday over suspicions that its exports of rifles to Mexico may break German arms-export...
Deccan ChronicleGerman firm insults AP, won’t sell guns Share ARTICLEURL Hyderabad, June 6: Stating that the Andhra Pradesh state police have a bad human rights record, the German firm Heckler & Koch, which manufactures small arms and assault guns, has decided not to supply 9mm pistols and MP5 submachine guns to the state police....
DW EnglishTensions between two Germanweapons companies, Armatix and Heckler & Koch, have been simmering for weeks. Now federal authorities are getting involved as Armatix plans legal action. The Federal Cartel Authority searched the offices of a number of German firearms manufacturers last week as part of an investigation into claims that one of the nation's major gun makers,...
The New York TimesWith a rough-and-tumble style of politics and a notoriously blunt-spoken populace, New York is fertile ground for hecklers. The heated encounter this weekend between a former mayor and a passer-by on the platinum-paved streets of the Hamptons is just the latest episode in that storied tradition. The former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was crossing the main street in the upscale...
The Daily MailWhen the parcel arrived by courier, grandmother Catherine Roots prepared to unwrap the horse harness she had been eagerly awaiting. Instead, she was left shocked and frightened by the contents, fearing she had been caught up in some gangland arms deal. The box contained a Heckler and Koch assault rifle, which was supposed to have gone to a police headquarters two miles away....
The HK121 is a general purpose machine gun manufactured by Heckler & Koch. The weapon is intended as a replacement for the well proven Rheinmetall MG3.
