I held the prototype KelTec at the SHOT show last year. It seemed very well built, it's much heavier than it looks. In the KelTec booth they would give us a bunch of snap caps so we could cylcle the action and get a feel for it. The people at the KelTec booth admitted to some problems they were working on and did say that it was still in the prototype stages. The magazine selector switch on the prototype I looked at was very small and hard to get to, but I think they told me that it was one of the problems they were working on. With the weight of the gun, especially when it's loaded with 14+1 rounds of 12 gauge, I think it would be a fairly soft shooter. I was pretty impressed, but I think I'll wait untill the $700+ price tag comes down, or I can get a used one...