During my trip to Germany last week, I took a special trip up to Hamburg, Germany to visit Zib Militaria. Zib is a surplus dealer in some rare gun parts. Heiko, the owner, has acquired some rare machine gun partsas well as stock piled a bunch of HK goodies. Among them are piles of HK 416 and 417 parts along with guns minus the barrels and bolts. This is due to the laws regarding firearm components in Germany. While I was there, I learned that Brownells has bought a majority these components and is planning to import them for sale in the US.
This has been confirmed by Paul at Brownells via email.
We don’t have prices firm yet, but we will have:
HK 416 & 417 Parts Kits (less barrel, bolt & lower)
Germans could not have the barrel & bolt, and we can’t import the lower. We are importing all the lower components with the kits.
HK 417 & 417 Stripped lower receivers, machined off original HK forgings
While I was touring Heiko’s facility I took pictures of the HK 416 parts I saw. This was before I found out Brownells was buying them.
Below is a semi auto HK416 PDW lower receiver. See the large hole above the hammer pin? That is for guides used to hold the PDW stock bars in the stored position.
photo credit Nick G. of his HK416C
Of course they also have the…