Ok so let’s back up. The bullet is a projectile that sits in a little brass case filled with the explodey powder. That entire thing is called a round. When the projectile is fired the casing gets discarded and then the next round goes in the barrel to wait for the explodey powder inside it to be set off and start the process again
For most modern guns you put these rounds in a little box called a magazine, it holds like 10-30 normally depending on the gun and the caliber (size of the projectile) and such. You fill up the magazine and then if you shoot 30 Nazis you just take out the empty magazine and put in a full one and now you’re ready to shoot 30 more Nazis.
Guns that are loaded with stripper clips have an internal magazine, you don’t swap them out. The clip is a little metal strip thing you can attach 30 rounds to in order to quickly load them into the magazine, so instead of swapping magazines, you have to slide 30 new rounds into your internal magazine to be ready to shoot 30 more Nazis.
They’re known for being quite fiddly and inconvenient.
keltec’s interest here is that the mechanisms can be slightly smaller, and reloading typically doesn’t happen in self-defense shootings. if you need more than ~5 shots you don’t need a hand gun you need comrades.
Makes sense for the people who like that kind of thing I guess, but I don’t want my gun to be small. Only thing a small gun is better at than a big gun is hurting your hands.
Concealability for sure, smaller guns allow “Deep Carry” which makes them almost completely undetectable in contrast to larger guns that print easily and require restricting your choice of clothing.
Rhett Neumayer (Demonstrated Concepts) and Tessa Booth have content about this topic on YouTube for those who are interested.
What’s a stripper clip
Ok so let’s back up. The bullet is a projectile that sits in a little brass case filled with the explodey powder. That entire thing is called a round. When the projectile is fired the casing gets discarded and then the next round goes in the barrel to wait for the explodey powder inside it to be set off and start the process again
For most modern guns you put these rounds in a little box called a magazine, it holds like 10-30 normally depending on the gun and the caliber (size of the projectile) and such. You fill up the magazine and then if you shoot 30 Nazis you just take out the empty magazine and put in a full one and now you’re ready to shoot 30 more Nazis.
Guns that are loaded with stripper clips have an internal magazine, you don’t swap them out. The clip is a little metal strip thing you can attach 30 rounds to in order to quickly load them into the magazine, so instead of swapping magazines, you have to slide 30 new rounds into your internal magazine to be ready to shoot 30 more Nazis.
They’re known for being quite fiddly and inconvenient.
keltec’s interest here is that the mechanisms can be slightly smaller, and reloading typically doesn’t happen in self-defense shootings. if you need more than ~5 shots you don’t need a hand gun you need comrades.
Makes sense for the people who like that kind of thing I guess, but I don’t want my gun to be small. Only thing a small gun is better at than a big gun is hurting your hands.
yeah size and weight are carrying optimizations.
with my situation i think if a handgun is going to be beneficial i’m not so worried about it printing
Printing, you mean like showing under clothes or wearing a worn spot on pants?
yeah
Concealability and portability, no?
Especially with it being a .380
Concealability for sure, smaller guns allow “Deep Carry” which makes them almost completely undetectable in contrast to larger guns that print easily and require restricting your choice of clothing.
Rhett Neumayer (Demonstrated Concepts) and Tessa Booth have content about this topic on YouTube for those who are interested.
Tbh I think it was a way to skip the difficult process of designing a working detachable magazine