Re: Keltec KSG Bullpup Pump Shotgun
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: popndrop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A buddy pointed out to me the other day that the action of this firearm is right next to your face... and it's firing a 12ga shell...and it is made by KelTEC...
It this was a Remington, Mossberg, or other reputable company, I'd be all over this thing, but having owned other KelTec firearms in the past - I don't think i'll be in line for this one. Don't get me wrong, the little .380 and even the SU16 I have are great little "limited use" firearms - but that much gunpowder going off millimeters away from my face in a KelTec...no thanks. </div></div>
12 gauge is a pretty low-pressure cartridge, and they've already been successfully producing the RFB in .308 Win. I blew a primer out shooting steel-cased ammo in my RFB, and it worked exactly as Kel-Tec designed: the blast vented down through the magazine, blew off the floorplate, bulged the mag, and did absolutely nothing to the rifle itself or the cheekpiece area (incidentally, it kept firing for another 3-4 rounds <span style="font-weight: bold">after</span> the magazine blew apart; the mag spring maintained enough tension off of the bottom mag body lips to keep upward pressure on the stack - I didn't even know there was a problem until it finally stopped shooting ten or fifteen seconds later). If you look at the disassembled photos, they're using two separate layers of steel above the chamber as protection. Just like a polymer-framed pistol will vent gas down and through the pistol grip area, on the RFB the same least-resistance path is down through the magazine well. Kel-Tec HAS destructively tested these, and found them to be safe even in event of catastrophic user stupidity.
