New lightweight 5.7 pistol from Kel-Tec

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Compact, lightweight, and no detachable mag - reminds me of the Grendel P-10!
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Was featured on American Rifleman TV tonight. Made at the new Kel-Tec facility in Wyoming...Definitely something I'd like to play with.👍
Plus, the usual 2 minutes hate from the 60+ crowd makes me want one even more. 😁

Well that would explain my post #4....that and pulling stuff off hood rats for a living.....the alley pukes will love this thing!

But only 2 minutes? Most were probably in the rack already.....I know it's past my rack time by almost an hour....... ;)
 
I'm not a Kel=tek fan and thus need to recognize my initial thought is swayed... It does seem the idea that the pistol was designed to get around the "high mag capacity ban" in some states and so in a way I say good for Kel-tek. My personal problem is I have no desire to add another caliber to my collection... and I'm over 60 too.
 
I can see why they tell jokes about Kel-Tec's design process involving lots of cocaine . . . but I'm still kinda intrigued by it.

I just wonder how you unload it without pulling the trigger 21 times, or manually cycling the slide 22 times. Also as noted above, traditional malfunction clearance techniques won't work.

On the other hand . . . Anybody read John Barnes' near-future sci-fi disaster novel "Mother of Storms?" There were a couple of passing references in Barnes' novel to a cheap, disposable handgun called a "Self-Defender," commonly available over the counter even at convenience stores, with (IIRC) a twenty-round pre-loaded, fixed and sealed magazine, a chip that would send out a GPS locator signal to local police when it was fired and a dye pack to stain the hand of the shooter; the latter two features designed to limit the SD's use as a criminal weapon. I wonder if between hits of cocaine, one of Kel-Tec's designers was reading that book and going "Hey, wait a minute, except for the narc chip and dye pack that might be a good idea . . . " :ROFLMAO:
 
Do it, Kel-Tec. You know you want to. So do legions of gaming geeks.

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It'll make for a fun gun, and KT won't have a problem selling out of them constantly (much like everything that they make). Heck, I may get one or two myself (I am a bit of KT fanboy, I own like 10 of them). I like that it's lighter than any of the other 5.7's out there, and the 20+1 capacity should be more than ample for most social work. We'll have to see what the holster situation is like in the future.
 
Was featured on American Rifleman TV tonight. Made at the new Kel-Tec facility in Wyoming...Definitely something I'd like to play with.👍
Plus, the usual 2 minutes hate from the 60+ crowd makes me want one even more. 😁
Haha....yuck it up now while you can! You'll be one before you know it.
We were all just in our 30's too.
No one escapes. Your turn's right around the corner.
 
Looks like the bottom of the grip can be removed (unlike the Grendel P-10), but I have no idea if it's "quick & easy" or requires tools (maybe the latter?):
KelTec always thinks everything out very thoroughly, they spent 3 years developing this pistol. So, I'm certain there's an easy method for unloading it when necessary.
We'll probably find out more about it during SHOT Show next week...😉
 
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