HK 512 Old School Tactical Shotgun
Cool Forgotten Weapons merch In the late 1970s, H K decided that it wanted to offer a tactical shotgun for the police and security market. Having no experience with shotgun manufacture, they turned to Franchi in Italy for whom they already handled sales outside Italy. Franchi produced a gasoperated semiautomatic shotgun for HK, who brought in the parts and did the final assembly themselves, in order to legally identify the guns as H K products. About 1500 were built, and most of these were sold to security agencies in Germany, Austria, Spain, and Portugal. A small remained of unsold ones were imported into the United States in the late 80 and early 90s, apparently between 250 and 350. The most interesting element of the H K 512 to me it the inclusion of an A W Diverter as an OEM part. The Diverter changes the shot pattern from a circle to a roughly rectangular shape betwe
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