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No company markings were used because the Somoza government was in disfavor internationally at the time. The company is located in Oberndorf am Neckar in the German state of Baden-Wrttemberg, and also has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France and the. Those 40 round alloy HK93 magazines with no date stamps that you asked about were made for the Anastasio Somoza Debayle government of Nicaragua (pre-Sandinista.) These were for a “semi-sterile” contract. Heckler & Koch GmbH (HK German pronunciation: hkl nt kx) is a German defence manufacturing company that manufactures handguns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers. (So a slide marked “KD” was made in 1993.)Īpparently, starting in 2002, HK switched to harmonizing the slide, frame, and magazine date coding systems, but as yet this has not been confirmed by officials at HK or HK-USA. The date coding of HK pistol slides has always been much more straightforward: A=0 B=1 C=2 D=3 E=4 F=5 G=6 H=7 I=8 K=9. ( My California pioneer ancestors are undoubtedly rolling in their graves.)Īccording to the knowledgeable folks at the HKPRO Board, the following is true for HK magazines, but not for receivers, frames, or pistol slides: A similar situation exists in California, where any civilian caught with a 11+ round magazine that they did not own on Dec. Hence, they are not allowed to possess any 11+ round magzine made after 9/1994. But New York has its own state law, which effectively extended the Federal ban for New York residents. JWR Replies: First, for the sake of SurvivalBlog’s overseas readers, let me present a bit of clarification on magazine legalities: The Federal “high capacity” (11+ round) magazine ban was in effect on the US and possessions only from September of 1994 to September of 2004, when it thankfully became null and void because of a 10 year “sunset” clause. What is the story on those magazines? Are they HK factory made? (The guy that sold them to me said that they were HK-made for some secret contract before 1980. It is because I live in a state that restricts civilian ownership of mags that were made after September of 1994.īy the way, I’ve also got some 40 round alloy HK93 magazines with no markings whatsoever on the mag body, but they do have followers with “78” mold marks. Instead, these are lot numbers, with the date present on the bottom of the chip if at all. YYWW dates are the easiest to spot, as the year is readily recognisable. Codes on ICs like P3476, 8B290, 43A22, 082AF (four digits and one letter in any order) are not date codes. These digits are frequently followed by (and also preceded by) additional letters in the images below, examples include +B9106 (leading +B) and 9031KE (trailing KE).
HK DATE CODES IS CODE
How does the date code system work? I’m not asking you this because I’m a collector that’s into arcana or minutiae. By far the most common format is YYWW: two digit year followed by two digit year. I’m confused about the two-letter date codes that are stamped on many HK magazines.