Kel-Tec

Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc.
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Company type	Private
Industry	Firearms
Founded	1991; 33 years ago
Founder	George Kellgren
Headquarters	Cocoa, Brevard, Florida, United States
Area served	worldwide
Key people	George Kellgren (President)
Products	Pistols, Rifles, Shotguns
Website	www.keltecweapons.com

Kel-Tec CNC Industries Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of firearms. Founded in 1991 and based in Cocoa, Florida, the company has manufactured firearms since 1995, starting with semi-automatic pistols^[1] and expanding to rifles and then shotguns. Kel-Tec is a privately owned Florida corporation. George Kellgren is the owner and Chief Engineer. He is the Swedish designer who also designed many earlier Husqvarna (in Sweden), Swedish Interdynamics AB (in Sweden), Intratec, and Grendel brand firearms. The company has been developing and manufacturing a wide variety of firearms, ranging from automatic handguns i.e. pistols to automatic rifles and shotguns.

History

Weapons manufactured by Kel-Tec include the P-11 pistol (caliber 9 mm); the P-32 pistol (Caliber 32 ACP); the P-3AT pistol (Caliber .380 ACP); the P-40 (Caliber .40 S&W)(discontinued); the SUB-9 and the later SUB-2000, both semi-automatic pistol caliber carbines that fold for storage. In addition, the company offers a family of 5.56×45mm rifles known as the SU-16 series.

November 2005 saw the introduction of the PLR-16, 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, .22 Magnum 30 shot semiautomatic pistol, the PMR30.^[2] In 2016, Kel-Tec introduced the CMR-30 carbine, based on the PMR30 platform.^[3]

Lightest, thinnest semi-automatic 9 mm pistol

The PF-9, a flat 9×19mm single-column magazine 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.^[4] It was announced on February 9, 2006, and was released into production in the fall of 2006.

"High-Efficiency Rifles"

At the 2007 SHOT Show held in Orlando, Florida, Kel-Tec introduced a series of new "High-Efficiency Rifles" called the RFB, standing for "Rifle, Forward-ejection, Bull-pup."^[5] The RFB is a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle with tilting breech block locking mechanism, loads the 7.62×51 NATO cartridge and uses metric FAL magazines; the RFB "family" consists in a series of Bullpup 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.^[6] Distribution of the RFB rifles in the USA 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.^[7]

Products

Kel-Tec breaks down their product line into three main categories: pistols, shotguns and rifles.^[8]

Pistols

Shotguns

Kel-Tec KSG

Rifles

Gallery

P-11 9 mm with loaded magazine
P-32 .32 ACP
P-3AT .380 ACP
PF-9 9mm blued finish with gray grip
SUB-2000 9 mm with 15-round Beretta magazine
SUB-2000 9 mm, folded
PLR-16 5.56×45mm with compact forend and Levang linear recoil compensator
SU-16A 5.56×45mm
SU-16C 5.56×45mm, with stock in fixed position
SU-16C 5.56×45mm, with stock in folded position
SU-16C 5.56×45mm, with after-market collapsible stock, pistol grip, and telescopic sight
RFB 7.62×51mm, with holographic weapon sight and sling
KSG 12 Gauge