Where to buy pf9?

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Where the heck does a guy find a kel tec pf9 for sale. I can't find anything. Is this model just not produced anymore?
 
I see them fairly regularly both online and in person. Having had one, I urge to look at other guns. If it's the compact package 9mm your after then you would be better served by a glock 43 in my humble opinion. Pf9 just did nothing for me. Yeah it's light but by the time you add a magazine of ammo the weigh grows significantly.
 
The PF9 is not one that inspires pride of ownership, but they generally work. I've owned one since they came on the market. I can say that the gun has never malfunctioned and is reasonably accurate. It's not a range gun, so if that is what you want, I'd look elsewhere. Back when I bought the gun, there were not a lot of light 9mm carry pistols on the market. It served me well for a couple years. My wife carries it AIWB. She chooses it over a number of other carry guns available to her. I would imagine you could find one on Gun Broker, or have a local shop order one for you.
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They are quite common at gun shows, at least in the areas that I visited.
 
You might try gallery of guns and see if they have this model for distribution and sale at a gun shop local to you. If you are not fully invested in the PF9, you might look into similarly priced single stack nines from S&W, Kahr, etc. You could always try slickguns and similar to find a deal that can be shipped to a local FFL for you.
 
If I lived closer to you I would sell you mine cheap, telling you their problematic before you pay for it. Buy a Shield or something else that is much more reliable. Chances are you will get frustrated with the PF-9. The Shield is heavier but mine has never failed to fire everything I have ran through it and is really accurate.
 
this happened last gun and ammo run. they dried up from online and some lgs. once pre election panic calms......theyll be easy to find once again.

weirdly last gun run all pistols were scarce except sigs and hks....go figure. new buyers coming in like the cheaper priced stuff.
 
Please, not another PF9 thread. The failure rate of that pistol far exeeds anything that you would care to use to protect anyone including you're worse enemy. Look at the Yankee Marshall's Utube on the subject. He's a character but makes a valid point on this particular gun. Any gun that has a failure rate of anything more than 1 or 2%, you don't want to own. Now somone usually say at this point Glocks have Kabooms, or Glocks fail also. Yes they probablly do, but Glock has 10 million guns on the street and keltec by comparison has 100. So if both companys have 50 failures, "well you do the math", or just use the search feature and you should see enough to disturb you out of this topic.
 
I've only seen them on the used/private market around here, which is where I got mine. It was a decent gun. Ugly and kind of clunky but I thought it was reliable. I only had it choke on one over-the-top handload that I worked up for use in a cabine. I am not sure I can blame the gun in this case.

However, I did end up getting rid of it. I originally thought that I might carry it, but I quickly decided that my trusty Jframe is in a whole nother class and it would not be replaced.
 
Sorry, OP, but the Kel-Tec is the ONLY handgun I feel compelled to get on the internet and preach against. My P-11 and my PF-9 (yeah, I thought the P-11 was the exception, so I jumped in the Kel-Tec arena again) were both pieces of crap. Actually, I take that back -- at least the P-11 could get through two magazines before choking (after that, it needed rigorous cleaning before shooting again). Horrible ergos, bad sights, snappy recoil ... I'd get another baby Glock or XD-S or even an LC-9 ... but really, the G-43 or S&W Shield are the only viable options in polymer, striker-fired sub-compact 9s in my opinion.
 
You can pick up a shield for 299 if you look around, 319-29 any time on slickguns, and if you need cheaper get a used glock 26 or 27, they are always up on Slickguns along with inexpensive Police trade ins.Or 299 will get you a new lc9s. New for 200, your looking at an lcp in 380.
 
I've carried one since April of 2010. It's apparently clueless, as it has not yet learned it's supposed to be a POS. I found it in a LGS, used with 2 magazines, during one of the aforementioned PF9 scarcities, and replaced the blued slide with a HC one when the original started to rust a little. I admit it's probably only seen, from me at least, about 600-700 rounds.

They remain the lightest and flattest eight-shooting 9mm pistols on the market, but they are not especially pleasant to run at the range. Still, with 115-grain ammo (all I can usually find readily available), they can be easily managed.

I see them from time to time in the used case at one of my local LGSs.
 
I have also read that, given the slightest opportunity, they will rust.

I have been carrying and (periodically, only) shooting my PF9 since mid-2007 and its performance has been rock solid.

I carry it in a DeSantis Nemesis holster in the right-rear pocket of my 501s. It has, many times, been soaked with sweat and I simply wipe it dry with a towel & place it in front of a fan ... never a rush to clean & oil it. Once the fan has done its work, back in my pocket the rig goes. I have never experienced any rust. O'course, I do not produce "corrosive" sweat like some do.

That said ... in the intervening 9+ years since I bought this pistol, Kel-Tec has made periodic changes to various production aspects, so someone else's experiences may differ.

When I first received the pistol a small section on the slide was spalled, so Kel-Tec replaced the slide. I have the grip covered with a piece of bicycle innertube. A couple of years ago the Ejector broke and Kel-Tec sent me a replacement at no charge. A few years ago I replaced the trigger with a Northwood because the only thing that I ever disliked about my PF9 was the OEM trigger.

If I were looking for a PF9 today, I would haunt online vendor sites and let the folks at my LGSs that I'm looking for one.
 
GBExpat said:
I have also read that, given the slightest opportunity, they will rust.

I have been carrying and (periodically, only) shooting my PF9 since mid-2007 and its performance has been rock solid.

I carry it in a DeSantis Nemesis holster in the right-rear pocket of my 501s. It has, many times, been soaked with sweat and I simply wipe it dry with a towel & place it in front of a fan ... never a rush to clean & oil it. Once the fan has done its work, back in my pocket the rig goes. I have never experienced any rust. O'course, I do not produce "corrosive" sweat like some do.

That said ... in the intervening 9+ years since I bought this pistol, Kel-Tec has made periodic changes to various production aspects, so someone else's experiences may differ.

When I first received the pistol a small section on the slide was spalled, so Kel-Tec replaced the slide. I have the grip covered with a piece of bicycle innertube. A couple of years ago the Ejector broke and Kel-Tec sent me a replacement at no charge. A few years ago I replaced the trigger with a Northwood because the only thing that I ever disliked about my PF9 was the OEM trigger.

If I were looking for a PF9 today, I would haunt online vendor sites and let the folks at my LGSs that I'm looking for one.
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O'course, I do not produce "corrosive" sweat like some do.

As a Scouse, I am the same! And my hands, and feet do not sweat at all!
 
george burns said:
Please, not another PF9 thread. The failure rate of that pistol far exeeds anything that you would care to use to protect anyone including you're worse enemy. Look at the Yankee Marshall's Utube on the subject. He's a character but makes a valid point on this particular gun. Any gun that has a failure rate of anything more than 1 or 2%, you don't want to own. Now somone usually say at this point Glocks have Kabooms, or Glocks fail also. Yes they probablly do, but Glock has 10 million guns on the street and keltec by comparison has 100. So if both companys have 50 failures, "well you do the math", or just use the search feature and you should see enough to disturb you out of this topic.
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do you know the actual failures rates of every gun? i don't. where did you find real scientific data? please share with us all. thanks.

the pf9 is a fine pistol for what it costs and what it is. not for everyone and it wasn't meant to be. it is what it is, a cheap, compact, thin 9mm for self defense carry. would i rather have a single stack glock 43, yep, but if my budget wouldn't allow for that would i carry a pf9, yep. i own 2 of them and they work fine.

course the op was asking where to buy, not if the guns good or not...so we are all way off topic and for that i apologize......
 
I own several KelTecs and have not experienced the problems other posters mention. I had a PF 9 and gifted it to kid. Currently looking for another with no luck. Based on my experience, KelTec has production runs of its firearms, so various models go in and out of stock. Apparently the PF9s are not currently in production. Same thing happens with PMR 30s, Sub 2000s, etc. Be patient and the PF 9s will be available again.
 
If you look just here at the replies, the failure rate and amount of dissatifaction and problems with the gun actually firing, are a testiment to the failure rate that makes the gun completely unacceptable for anyone to rely on safely.
I mentioned either now of in previous discussions on this gun, that "some" may have gotten a good one". but the majority of people who bought them, got rid of them or don't carry them, a simple seacch will confirm this without going on for 44 pages about it, we have already shut down several threads on this topic, that should tell you enough.
Some here will argue about anything, but telling a guy who is obviously new to this that he should risk his life on a PF9, is criminal.
They suck the failure rate is mor than any other gun that was sold in this catagory, why would you tell anyone to buy one,http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/01/chris-dumm/long-term-gun-test-update-kel-tec-pf9/
, and the P11, 2 of 3 of my friends who purchased them snapped a firing pin and never knew about it untill they went to fire the gun. This is the only gun that I adenetly make it a point to warn against, the forum is full of fixes for these guns, "their own forum", mine would not fire 147 grain ammo more than 1 time in a row. The chamber on an entire run of guns was cut wrong, and although the 115 worked most times, the 124 and 147 did not unless you wanted a derringer.If you are luck enough to have got one that shoots every time with no stove pipes FTE's or FTF's in 300 rounds, I would sell it before it starts giving you problems, I have been around guns my entire life and seen every type of screw up. This is an unsafe weapon. And many reviewers feel the same way, Again if you get more than 1 or 2 % of a failure rate with a gun, you should stay away from it, ffor self defense. This gun far exeeds that, Most gun shops won't even take them in trade.
 
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It's true and honest , just go online and look. When you see that many problems it should raise a red flag in your head. These guns have been a subject of contention on every gun forum that exhists. Guys on every forum have complained , some vieametly, some not so much, and 30-50% defend the gun, but when that many people say there is a problem with anything, and the retailers won't carry them that should be enough.
If there was a market for them, don't you think everyone would want one? Gun stores won't carry them because of the failure rate. Shooting ranges pull them off the line, and even zimmermans gun locked up after he fired it. Get somethin used if you have to, several quality guns are at 300 bucks on slickguns right now, even a Canick, but not this, really I wouln't be so adimate if there I wasn't sure.
 
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george burns said:
If you look just here at the replies, the failure rate and amount of dissatifaction and problems with the gun actually firing, are a testiment to the failure rate that makes the gun completely unacceptable for anyone to rely on safely.
I mentioned either now of in previous discussions on this gun, that "some" may have gotten a good one". but the majority of people who bought them, got rid of them or don't carry them, a simple seacch will confirm this without going on for 44 pages about it, we have already shut down several threads on this topic, that should tell you enough.
Some here will argue about anything, but telling a guy who is obviously new to this that he should risk his life on a PF9, is criminal.
They suck the failure rate is mor than any other gun that was sold in this catagory, why would you tell anyone to buy one,http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/01/chris-dumm/long-term-gun-test-update-kel-tec-pf9/
, and the P11, 2 of 3 of my friends who purchased them snapped a firing pin and never knew about it untill they went to fire the gun. This is the only gun that I adenetly make it a point to warn against, the forum is full of fixes for these guns, "their own forum", mine would not fire 147 grain ammo more than 1 time in a row. The chamber on an entire run of guns was cut wrong, and although the 115 worked most times, the 124 and 147 did not unless you wanted a derringer.If you are luck enough to have got one that shoots every time with no stove pipes FTE's or FTF's in 300 rounds, I would sell it before it starts giving you problems, I have been around guns my entire life and seen every type of screw up. This is an unsafe weapon. And many reviewers feel the same way, Again if you get more than 1 or 2 % of a failure rate with a gun, you should stay away from it, ffor self defense. This gun far exeeds that, Most gun shops won't even take them in trade.
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im not arguing to argue. if you had/have facts i wanted to learn from them. threads here and a video of a gun maker and a blog of a gun are far from facts of percentages of failures. doesn't make the pf9 look good, i agree.....but all gun owners of the pf9, likely most of the owners aren't here or on every forum. we can't guess at percentages of failures as unless we know how many are out there and are used and how many fail and why.....we are just guessing. not arguing to arguing, i just thought you had industry facts to show failures in percentages.

i'm not defending the ops choice, just stating the gun is what it is....... if he's done his own research and decided the risk is worth the price...that's his call not mine or yours. nothing criminal about letting people make up their own minds on their own. course i believe in personal freedom and all the risks it entails, but that's me.

i appreciate your input, and i don't think the pf9 is garbage, but rather a cheap gun one step better than a bryco, raven jiminez, taurus:), etc. it is what it is.......used as such my 2 haven't failed.........................yet:).............. but given a choice i'd pick the glock 43 over the pf9, but that would be my choice and i'm not the op. he has to choose on his own.
 
I should have known asking about a kel tec would encourage contention .
I carry daily and have for years now.
I am not new to firearms. I am far from it.

I was just wanting a very small pistol, preferably in 9mm, for occasional use when in more active wear. Hard to iwb my 26 when my daughter wants to sit in my lap on the swings at the park or when my son wants to play tennis.

And yes, I do carry ALL the time. I don't care how low the odds are of an attack at the park or bike trail. I have a dangerous job that makes certain people angry and irrational and I am sometimes spotted off the clock by these people.

I have an lcr in 9mm and was wanting something flatter. I may just end up with an lcp in the end anyway since they are readily available.
 
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