Canada's shortest NR firearm: Keltec KSG Tactical - 13.7" Barrel, 21.4" OAL.

gentle_ben said:
As an owner of a regular sized KSG, I can tell you I would not want that firearm to be any shorter than it already is.
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Agreed, or else it makes it even easier to accidentally blast your hand off. Already a guy in the states blew his hand off when his foregrip came loose.

https://w ww.thegunwriter.com/17484/a-devastating-accident-with-the-kel-tec-ksg/
(^broke link on purpose, fix space between www.)

Make sure your foregrips are tight and add a hand stop in front of it. I did that plus added a muzzle break so the bore protrudes forward. Instead of flush (which is dangerous, but looks better. not worth losing a hand tho)
 
truemask said:
Agreed, or else it makes it even easier to accidentally blast your hand off. Already a guy in the states blew his hand off when his foregrip came loose.

https://w ww.thegunwriter.com/17484/a-devastating-accident-with-the-kel-tec-ksg/
(^broke link on purpose, fix space between www.)

Make sure your foregrips are tight and add a hand stop in front of it. I did that plus added a muzzle break so the bore protrudes forward. Instead of flush (which is dangerous, but looks better. not worth losing a hand tho)
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The problem is not necessarily how short it is, it's that the rails on the bottom of the foregrip are plastic. Expecting plastic rails to hold up when you put a foregrip on that you are racking the gun with for every shot and absorbing part of the recoil is wishful thinking.

When the rails snap off cocking the gun your support hand flies forward, and the gun slips down making shooting your hand off a very real possibility. This has happened at least a couple times I am aware of with the KSG.

Plenty of short guns out there that I have no problem shooting, although I am careful. I do remember someone shooting themselves through the hand with a SMG type setup with a foregrip in the same circumstances.

I'm aware of a company that makes a metal rail adapter for the KSG, it bolts onto the entirely of the plastic rail and gives you a lot more rail engagement so if one of the plastic rails was to snap off it'll still hold.


There are pictures of either this guys or one of the others hand out there after the KSG turned it into hamburger. If you're morbidly curious you could search but just imagine a stump and a couple pounds of ground meat.
 
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