Pistol to carbine conversions
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May 16th, 2011 at 11:52 am
You mean mall ninja cool. A pistol is always a weapon of last resort and a pistol converted to a ‘carbine’ is no different except for bulk…
May 16th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
It’s a “legal-for-now” conglomeratin that wraps plastic around a pistol to make the pistol shoulder-mountable.
If you bought an actual CARBINE, and could, with those bucks, you would have something designed for the purpose, with a longer barrel and sight radius.
If you need a carbine, get a carbine, don’t clamp your pistol into a plastic gizmo.
There’s ZERO “cool” in this, because it deliberately leads you to believe that you now have all the advantages of a rifle when you don’t have any of them, except shoulder-mounting and the ability to mount advanced sighting systems.
As I see it, it’s not only UN-cool, it’s dangerous. If I’m up against someone with one of those, I know that I’m facing a mindset I can defeat, before a shot is fired, the “short-cut” mindset.
BTW, if I’m that author, who wants “cool” in his action hero, I put a Glock 18 in his hands, not a Skorpion or this boneheaded device.
May 16th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
That stuff would be ok if it included a longer barrel, like 8-12 inch…but without it, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. However, more power to those that want it…because as some wise man once said, “what the fuck has need got to do with it?”
May 19th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
There’s a company called MechTech that makes a pistol-to-carbine conversion kit (the “Creative Custom Unit”) for Glocks and 1911s that include a 16″ barrel. If you want a pistol-caliber carbine chambered for rounds other than 9mm, .40 S&W or .45 ACP, something like that would be worth looking into.