Alien Handgun is something new.

[Medic!]

If they put quality into manufacturing I think it'll be a success. I especially like the fixed barrel. Just a WAG here, thinking the price point at around 700 to 800 bucks initially.

Hello mam.
Here, take my seat. Oh! I just noticed.
When's the baby due?


WHAT BABY!!!

 

[Heyjoe]

Nice to see something new in the small arms market as opposed to the glock imitation pistols.

Innovative.

 

[The Heretic]

I don't care how the firing pin works on a gun, I care about how the trigger feels, and so far I have yet to shoot a striker fired pistol where the trigger doesn't suck, but then I have shot only Glocks, Kahrs, Walthers and FN striker fired pistols. I much prefer my P series DA/SA hammer fired pistols. I also like the first DA shot, then SA and the capability to restrike the primer; I read somewhere that 80+% of failure to fire are resolved by a second strike on the firing pin - pulling the trigger again is much faster than racking the slide.

That aside, my bet is that the reciprocating mass is much less as the slide looks smaller and lighter, and the barrel is fixed. So possibly lighter recoil, not to mention the low barrel axis.

I would want to shoot one first. I don't like the little lever on striker fired pistols; I file them down on my Glocks such that they don't stick out when I press on them fully.

 

[Basedgreaser]

Well hopefully for the creators this goes the path of the hudson h9 and not the kriss kard

 

[Medic!]

I read a lot of not good things on the Hudson.

 

[Basedgreaser]

I read a lot of not good things on the Hudson.

Atleast it made it to production...



To Add* most new guns brought to the market go to reinforce what we already have is pretty damn close to as good as it gets. Cz, Hk, 1911, glocks. Good luck on any new handgun beating those markets

 

[Medic!]

Atleast it made it to production...

From what I read that's the problem.

 

[Basedgreaser]

From what I read that's the problem.

Lol true, too many prototypes just dont translate to production very well.

 

[Oregunian]

It's obviously meant for competition shooting and not duty use or anything, but I'm glad to see something new on the market.

 

[failsafe]

Off-the-shelf race gun, sweet! If it was glock mag compatible they'd probably have thousands of preorders already

 

[The Heretic]

Atleast it made it to production...



To Add* most new guns brought to the market go to reinforce what we already have is pretty damn close to as good as it gets. Cz, Hk, 1911, glocks. Good luck on any new handgun beating those markets

SIG Sauer

 

[Capn Jack]

Really an interesting concept. My wife would like the ease of pulling the slide back, but the trigger safety turns me off. I'd rather no safety, than a trigger that looks like it might break if you squeezed it too hard.

 

[thorborg]

Hopefully the slide stop is beefy enough to stop the slide, in the event the "slow down slide" gas piston, failed.
Wouldn't want to end up a dead rhinoceros with it sticking out of my forehead.
I like the innovation, especially the fixed sight platform. May be a dirt and lint catcher in combat use though.

 

[Kruel J]

Might be the first non-Glock added to the rotation in quite some time.

 

[po18guy]

Get one quick and put it in your safe. In a market that is absolutely glutted with poly 9s, no amount of design brilliance will assure success against the established, less costly brands. Instant collectible.

 

[Flopsweat]

Get one quick and put it in your safe. In a market that is absolutely glutted with poly 9s, no amount of design brilliance will assure success against the established, less costly brands. Instant collectible.

Let me tell you about the Gen 1 Sub 2000 I paid way too much money for.

 

[po18guy]

Let me tell you about the Gen 1 Sub 2000 I paid way too much money for.

However, Kel-Tec has a wide range and growing. It appears that they are well capitalized. Such boutique builders as LAUGO (ALIEN) will almost inevitably join the ranks of the others, from Detonics to Randall to Vega to Boberg/Bond* - all of them either unique or ingenious...

...and mostly ignored by buyers.

*Bond may yet make a go of it, since they are established, but it's an uphill battle.

 

[MikeInOr]

With the fixed barrel it seems like it would be a natural choice for shooting with a suppressor without needing a booster or decouple.

 

[revjen45]

Having worked for Dornaus & Dixon, I have experience in observing how incompetent management can keep a good product from succeeding. I really like the concept - hope it makes it. The people who bought Bren 10s now have a collectors' piece.

 

[Medic!]

Having worked for Dornaus & Dixon, I have experience in observing how incompetent management can keep a good product from succeeding. I really like the concept - hope it makes it. The people who bought Bren 10s now have a collectors' piece.

Yes. But did they ever get there magazines for the gun?