As this exact question has hit every gun forum many times, it seems odd that nobody seems to see what the marketers were thinking when they dreamt it up...
It isn't a cartridge for long time gun owners that are deeply involved in the game.
However, to someone walking in to a gun store for the first time and looking for their first defensive handgun, it seems to offer at least a viable alternative to 9mm.
"Here's something nearly as good, that holds a little more and has a little less recoil, plus it's cutting edge and brand new!"
In the world of guns, to a bunch of established longtime gun cranks, this is a complete face-down failure. This is a .45 GAP. But to someone who is starting at zero and might triple their knowledge base in their first visit to a gun store? Probably seems like an exceptional offering.
The industry truly has ONE GOAL, and that goal is to sell stuff. There's a gujillion new people to sell stuff to, and none of those people have any reason to believe it's not worth their consideration. (no matter what all of us who eat, sleep and breathe handguns wish to scoff and snarl about.)
It isn't a cartridge for long time gun owners that are deeply involved in the game.
However, to someone walking in to a gun store for the first time and looking for their first defensive handgun, it seems to offer at least a viable alternative to 9mm.
"Here's something nearly as good, that holds a little more and has a little less recoil, plus it's cutting edge and brand new!"
In the world of guns, to a bunch of established longtime gun cranks, this is a complete face-down failure. This is a .45 GAP. But to someone who is starting at zero and might triple their knowledge base in their first visit to a gun store? Probably seems like an exceptional offering.
The industry truly has ONE GOAL, and that goal is to sell stuff. There's a gujillion new people to sell stuff to, and none of those people have any reason to believe it's not worth their consideration. (no matter what all of us who eat, sleep and breathe handguns wish to scoff and snarl about.)