{"id":26867,"date":"2025-04-25T07:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/type-79-smg-chinas-mp7-at-home-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:43:04","slug":"type-79-smg-chinas-mp7-at-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/type-79-smg-chinas-mp7-at-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 79 SMG: China&#8217;s MP7 At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWIbsLxqBPc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>The Type 79 is an overly-complex submachine gun that uses a scaled-down AK operating system chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. In many ways, this is akin to the H&#038;K MP7 &#8211; it&#8217;s a miniaturized combat rifle. The locked breech system allows the reciprocating parts to be arather lighter than a simple blowback design would be, but at the cost of cost and complexity. Is this really a good design? Well, you can judge for yourself &#8211; but don&#8217;t forget that it was replaced only 6 years after its adoption, and it was in development for well over a decade. Today, the Type 79 remains in use by some police forces in China, and there is a significant aftermarket component market for it. Basically, there are a lot of police Type 79s that look they have been dragged mercilessly through the whole Tapco-China catalog.<\/p>\n<p>For the fascinating story of the Type 79&#8217;s excruciatingly long development, you should check out Jason Clower&#8217;s video that posted today:<\/p>\n<p>Curse of China\u2019s Type 79: The Gun That Blighted Every Life It Touched<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bNOFa5__QJM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/bNOFa5__QJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv The Type 79 is an overly-complex submachine gun that uses a scaled-down AK operating system chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. In many ways, this is akin to the H&#038;K MP7 &#8211; it&#8217;s a miniaturized combat rifle. The locked breech system allows the reciprocating parts to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/type-79-smg-chinas-mp7-at-home-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Type 79 SMG: China&#8217;s MP7 At Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}