Key people George Kellgren () Products,, Website Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc. Is an developer and manufacturer of. Founded by in 1991 and based in, the company has manufactured since 1995, starting with and expanding to and then. Kel-Tec is a privately owned. Is the owner and chief engineer. He is a designer who also designed many earlier, Swedish Interdynamics AB (in Sweden), and brand firearms.

Aug 11, 2009  Thinking of buying a kel-tec but not sure what one I want the p3at or the pf-9? I want something for carry thats easier to pack in shorts and a tee than my sc. Im ok with.380 but I would prefer 9mm for protection.

The company has been developing and manufacturing a wide variety of firearms, ranging from semi-automatic handguns i.e. Pistols to semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Weapons manufactured by Kel-Tec include the pistol (caliber ); the pistol (Caliber ); the (Caliber ); the P-40 (Caliber )(discontinued); the SUB-9 and the later, both caliber that fold for storage. In addition, the company offers a family of known as the series. November 2005 saw the introduction of the, a long-range pistol design based on key design elements copied from the earlier SU-16 rifle design.

A new pistol design from Kel Tec in 2010, is a light weight, full-size, 30 shot semiautomatic pistol, the. In 2016, Kel-Tec introduced the CMR-30 carbine, based on the PMR30. Lightest, thinnest semi-automatic 9 mm pistol [ ]. Kel-Tec PF-9 The, a flat semi-automatic pistol based on the earlier P-11 and P-3AT designs, was upon its release touted as the thinnest and lightest 9 mm pistol ever mass-produced. It was launched in 2006. 'High-Efficiency Rifles' [ ] At the 2007 held in, Kel-Tec introduced a series of new 'High-Efficiency Rifles' called the, standing for 'Rifle, Forward-ejection, Bull-pup.' The RFB is a with tilting breech block locking mechanism, loads the cartridge and uses metric magazines; the RFB 'family' consists in a series of rifles with three barrel lengths (18' barrel carbine, 24' sporter and 32' target versions), and a patented forward-ejection system via a tube placed over the barrel that ejects the spent case forwards, over the handguard of the rifle.

This eliminates a major drawback of Bull-pup rifles, which is that they may not be readily usable by left-handed shooters. Distribution of the RFB rifles in the was scheduled for February 2009; as of 2013, it has been publicly released for sale.

As a further Revolution of the Bullpup, the RDB (Rifle Downward-ejecting Bullpup) was released in late 2015. Products [ ] Kel-Tec breaks down their product line into three main categories: pistols, shotguns and rifles. Pistols [ ] • • • • • • • • Kel-Tec CP-33 Shotguns [ ] • • • Rifles [ ] • • • • • Kel-Tec CMR-30 • Gallery [ ] •.

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I just read this and figured someone should be warning people. 'During last summer I bought a Kel-Tec P3AT and some personal defense 'defender' ammo produced by MagSafe.

I often practiced with my Kel-Tec at the range using standard Federal American Eagle, but due to the extreme cost, never fired the MagSafe ammo. I carried concealed with MagSafe in the magazine and chamber for 9 months due to their claims for stopping power and safety. Three weeks ago I was at the range and decided to try the MagSafe. On the first shot, the back of the cartridge peeled apart like a grape.

The magazine blew out the bottom of the pistol, the slide bent and blew off the top, the frame split on the left side and every rivet blew out. My hand was blackened like in a bad Roadrunner/Wiley Coyote movie, but not injured. The gun collapsed into a pile of debris. My gunsmith called MagSafe and was told OH YEAH. WE'VE BLOWN UP TWO OF THOSE PISTOLS WITH OUR AMMO.

WE NOW HAVE A STICKER ON THE PACKAGE THAT SAYS DO NOT USE WITH KEL-TEC P3AT. They said their ammo is extremely hot and exceeds SAMI specs (though it's not marked +P or +P+).

Then they seemed to get personal about my level of intelligence and ability to read. Note, there was no warning sticker about the P3AT on the package I bought last year. Kel-Tec was concerned immediately, and indicated that the gun is designed to break down under a KB such as this to protect the shooter by dissipating the force of the explosion. They wanted to examine the parts to learn from this accident.