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The same things could be said for modern rifle caliber carbines as well...
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Mill-ennials.
What-ever.
I'm neither
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Mill-ennials.
What-ever.
.....do you mean, 'Like, what-ever'???What-ever.
I think the new scout-rifle concepts by Ruger, Mossberg, Savage, etc. are dead-sexy!
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As @AndyinEverson mentioned above, a sort of modernized M1 Carbine in a pistol caliber would be nice. Alas, I doubt there would be enough market for them for a big outfit to do so.
Anyway, to each their own.
To understand pistol-caliber carbines we have to learn where did the concept come from.
IMO, PCCs gained their popularity mostly during the WWII, when tactics have being changed, and long-range rifles became less useful, and Armed Forces started looking for low-cost, lightweight, maneuverable, QC/mig-range, select-fire firearms with high capacity detachable magazines.
We, also, may see some early signs of this tendency in so-called cavalry carbines - basically shortened and lightened models of Lee-Enfield, Mosin-Nagant, Mauser K98, Arisaka, etc.
given various other choices, and even being a lever-fan, I've never discovered the use of such as these, however 'historical' they may be:
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Not the greatest. It's not gas operated like a true M1 Carbine. Just blowback with a huge chunk of steel under the barrel to act as the buffer. The one I shot was having a lot of problems with failures to eject. The trigger was like 12-14 pounds. As well as the action being incredibly heavy to manually manipulate. That huge chunk of metal they use to slow the bolt down whacks the receiver very hard and it is a very snappy rifle due to the blowback recoil impulse.Interesting indeed. I wonder how they run?
I bought a Gen 1 S2K somewhat impulsively several years ago. (great FTF deal)The KelTec Sub2k looks cool to me, but with a stated service life of 5k-6k rounds, I can't justify buying one.