Fun gun. 7+1 in a 14.6 ounce package (18.1 ounces loaded). They snookered me a little bit on that. They said it was “12.7” ounces. Yeah, if you weigh it without the magazine. Who ever started that nonsense? A gun without a magazine isn’t a gun it’s a paperweight. But it is lightweight. They discontinued it about a year ago. Kel-Tec: “This one’s popular, stop production!” You can’t find any of the ones they’re still making on the shelf, how I found this one was dumb luck.

It’s funny because I got it off of Guns.com (a clearing house in Minnesota) from ‘Gunnies‘ in Orem, Utah. They’ve been associated with a gun channel on YouTube named Nutnfancy (a play on ‘nothing fancy’). As legend has it, Kel-Tec was so appreciative of the good words Nutn gave them over the years on their guns, that they created a custom color (Desert Tan) for the PF9 in his honor. And Gunnies would have one of the last new models of the PF9 left in America, because they had been stocked up the most do to their association with Nutn.

So I fired about 50 rounds through it this afternoon, without a hitch. It’s snappy! I imagine 100 would be my limit on any one range session. But that’s what you get with a small, lightweight gun. 6 inches long by 4.25 inches high. About 7/8ths of an inch wide. It wasn’t built to be a range toy. It’s funny because people come and go so quickly in the gun world. The reason I say that is because a lot of its parts remind me of another budget firearm maker, SCCY. I’m starting to think all the parts are made in China, and all Kel-Tec, SCCY and maybe Taurus do is assemble them here. Not actually make the parts.

A year or two ago I’d heard Taurus had bought SCCY and Kel-Tec, and maybe Rossi. Who knows. There used to be Jennings, Llama, Bayer (?), Phoenix, Star, Lorcin, and God knows who all. Someone would use their guns in a criminal fashion, the victims relatives would sue and they’d be out of business. How that works I don’t know. They never sue the maker of the car the drunk was driving. Or Budweiser for what he was drinking. For some reason only gun makers are held responsible for what idiots do.

But, I almost waited too long to get a little bit of history, now that they no longer make them. If I was smart I would have left it in the box un-fired and sold it in 20 years as a collectors piece. But, chances are I’d be dead in 20 so what’s the point? So I’ll just have fun with my micro 9 and shoot it while I can.