Retro AR-15s are all the rage, but at the end of the day most of them are simply ARs wearing different dresses. Foreign military weapons fall into a seemingly magical category where they’re believed to be ideal by those who haven’t used them, but actually come with some traps and shortfalls. Like the upgraded AUG in RECOIL Issue 65, today we take on the challenge of updating a foreign mini monster, the HK G3k.
The G3 has been used by many countries as their primary service rifle, yet to pop culture, its smaller roller-locked brother, the MP5, is better known, at least here in the United States. The precursor to the G3, the Spanish CETME rifle, was based around the roller-delayed blowback system of the German StG 45(M) and French AME 49. In order to accommodate the requirements of a German contract, HK approached CETME to modify their existing design for German
