Jocko said: "Don't compare it to the lcp or kt 380, both good guns but the kahr just offers so much more that could never be done in the $300 price range or even close to it. It's got to work perfect though or at any price, it will not be acceptable."
I'd like to know what more it will offer that would be "so much more" than the LCP or P3AT. Will it be a smart phone? Will it have GPS? Seriously, what will this so much more be? Will it be smaller? Will it hold more rounds of .380 ammo than the Kel-Tec or Ruger? Will it make the .380 bullet fly out of it faster than it would from a Kel-Tec or Ruger?
It will cost twice as much as a Kel-Tec or Ruger, so it should be twice as good, right?
My LCP is in AZ being fixed right now. I hope it works perfectly when I get it back. If it doesn't, I'll get refunded. But I haven't given up on it yet. Too many people have had no problems. People with the Kel-Tec had their share of problems, but things seem to have been ironed out. I thought the LCP would be ten times better than the P3AT. I'm willing to eat crow now. I'm starting to think, that at that tiny size, guns just are touchier, and it takes more for all customers to get a reliable one.
Of course, if all new Kahr .380s are perfectly reliable then it's worth it, right? I'm not so sure. I'd rather buy two LCPs. Odds are, one would be reliable (I don't think half of all new LCPs are unreliable, not positive, but just guessing). And if the other wasn't, I'd eventually get my refund, and be $300 richer. Of course, thats assuming the new Kahrs are 100 percent reliable. Jocko admits the possibility they may not be: "It's got to work perfect though or at any price, it will not be acceptable." Of course, this possibility didn't preclude this statement that contains no doubt from the author: "The kahr just offers so much more that could never be done in the $300 price range."
So again, I ask, what is it that the Kahr currently offers, that would qualify as so much more than the LCP or P3AT? Hopefully, it would be double the reliability, since it is double the price. We'll have to wait and see. But I'm still holding out for the GPS on it.