While the FBI still has the MP5/10 in its active inventory and occasionally fields them, the submachine gun, in general, has been replaced in FBI service by 5.56 mm rifles.

The FBI announced Friday that a sub-machine gun was stolen out of an agent’s car earlier this month outside San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle described the gun as a Heckler & Koch MP5 ...

The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), founded in 1982, operates as a full-time tactical unit capable of deploying within four hours across the U.S. or overseas. With training modeled on military ...

The FBI HRT, a domestic counter-terrorism unit prior to the 9/11 attacks, has become a de facto Special Operations force in its own right. While U.S. Special Operations units have frequently used ...