![]() ![]() Even with a bare muzzle I found it to be somewhat more gentle than the same 7” barreled compensated Scorpion. Blowback designs do add some weight but the Cx4 balances quite nicely and doesn’t have too sharp of a recoil impulse. Being a direct blowback 9mm PCC it is unsurprisingly on the portly side with a large telescoping bolt thumping about. ![]() Both make use of polymer but I can’t see they have much else in common.Īt the time of writing Beretta’s website isn’t working correctly for me so I won’t be able to give exact specs. P stands for Pistol and C for Carbine but I’m not sure what the “x4″ part refers to. The Cx4 Storm, introduced in 2003, is part of a fairly small Beretta family which includes a pistol which is perhaps unsurprisingly called the Px4. In fact, compared to a 7″ barreled CZ Scorpion with a muzzle brake the Beretta is only a few inches longer. The benefits of having a grip-fed PCC is having familiar handgun-like controls and you can safely shave a few more inches off of the overall length while still meeting the legal requirements for a rifle. This pattern of PCC is really quite uncommon which is curious since so many are designed around utilizing those Glock magazines. Masterpiece Arms also offers rifle-length models but I bet you’ve never heard of them before. Hi-Point has a carbine in various calibers. KelTec makes one with their foldable Sub-2000. While there are plenty of pistol caliber carbines available these days (and a depressingly large number of them all utilizing various AR-15 designs and/or taking Glock mags) there aren’t too many which feed from the grip. Every once in a while a 9mm will pop up somewhere and I’m always drawn to it, these carbines have a magnetic attraction. 45 ACP of all things and to this day I’ve never seen another. My first time shooting one of these was in. Is it a big pistol? A small rifle? Does it shoot lasers? (Sadly no.) What it is above all else is a fun, quirky, and incredibly distinct PCC. Then you have models like the Beretta Cx4 Storm, a gun which seemed to have been designed with the big screen in mind. In an AR-15 dominated rifle market almost everything is going with “AR-like controls” with AR grips to the point where CZ completely redesigned their Scorpion to have more AR-like features. They’re small and handy, economical to feed, don’t make a lot of noise, and perhaps the most interesting bit: Every manufacturer makes them differently. Pistol caliber carbines are one of my joys within the firearms realm.
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