Kel-Tec PLR-16 Warning

[lone ranger]

I was at the range a few days ago and the fellow that was beside me was shooting a Keltec PLR-16 pistol. It fires 223 ammo. Cool looking gun. After about 15minutes of shooting, he stops, and says a few choice words and shakes his head. "look at this" he says. I trot over to his shooting bench and he shows me his broken gun. The whole back-end came flying off ! Not kidding.!
This is the same problem I seen on U-tube with the Keltec SU-16. They must use the same receiver.? So I researched the net and found its definatly not an isolated problem. Here is the video. heads up guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYnEdp50z9k
Is there no quality control anymore ? Some one is going to get hurt bad sooner or later.

 

[WRH]

Kel Tec has some cool ideas, but they would be better off if they licensed their patents and let someone else build them.

 

[Grove]

Kel Tec has some cool ideas, but they would be better off if they licensed their patents and let someone else build them.

Indeed, an hopefully that company uses PROPER polymers and/or metals.

 

[Dmitri]

They have these problems with their folding models only (Su,sub) it was a bad idea using a polymer receiver on those..
It also looks to be different type of polymer than on RFB and KSG..

 

[Hitzy]

Keltec sucks. RFB is OK but over priced. I'd never by anything they make

 

[thenewbieglockguy]

They are so bad but yet have a $1000-$1500+ price tag. Was thinking about the KSG but I will stay clear!

 

[Silveragent]

Same thing happened to my SU-16. If you search the forum my earlier posts will come up.

 

[Wrong Way]

Meh, I've had great luck with all my Keltecs.

 

[tj black]

These are old lessions forgotten, 20 some years ago it was the Tec 9s, they finally went with a screwed in back cap to keep the lower reciever from breaking apart, Kel Tec should know better.

 

[onetwentyish]

From what I have seen, read, and experienced, I would say Keltec products are divided 2 ways. Either well executed or a neat idea that was poorly executed.

The high end pricer keltecs are very nice and dont have near the problems thier low priced gimick firearms do.

I would not hesitate to put money down on a KSG, RFB, or an RDB when it arrives. These are the high end Keltecs.

The Su-16, Su-22, Sub 2000, PMR, and PLR-16 I would be very hesitant about, mind you the sub 2000 is a pretty good gun for the price. The rest of keltecs low-end models should be stayed away from. Just my opinion.