They have to get a lot less expensive, and smaller, before I get one. And a way to get around the threaded barrel necessity.

I’ve got some further thoughts. This guy is beyond “kind of weird”.

• He carries at all. Granted: Among this crowd, and around some of your other internet haunts, carrying a gun for your protection might not be considered to be that unusual. This will certainly vary from one state and city to another, but I contend that no more than 5% of a population actually carries. This means that 95% do not. Carrying a gun is an unusual thing to do.
• He carries in a shoulder holster. No one has carried their CCW weapon in a shoulder holster since Don Johnson starred in Miami Vice. Weird#1.
• He carries a gun in an unusual caliber… 5.7x28mm. Here, I’ve got to dive into some gun physics (which most of us learned in our Jr. High School science class). What you’re really concerned about in a caliber and gun choice is the Muzzle Energy. I’ll look at 2 choices here…5.7 vs 9mm…and they do show some differences. The 5.7 can have a ME of 268 ft-pounds whereas a more common 9mm choice has a ME of 364 ft-pounds. What is Muzzle Energy? Muzzle Energy is basically what we learned in our science class as Kinetic Energy. What’s that? K.E.=1/2 MV², where M=the mass of the moving object and V=the velocity. With these 2 examples, the mass of each bullet is very different. Mass of the 5.7 is 40 grains. Mass of the 9mm is just over 3 times that at 124 grains. A more important difference is the difference in velocity (more important because the differential must be squared). The 5.7 advertises a velocity of 1738 ft per second, whereas the 9mm velocity is 1150 fps. The 9mm has a bullet of a greater weight and delivers more Muzzle Energy than the 5.7 choice. Why would someone choose a 5.7 over a 9mm? Easy. The reason you’d choose a caliber with the extra velocity of the 5.7 is that your intent is to defeat body armor. That extra velocity gives the bullet of a smaller mass enough “punch” to get through body armor and then have enough energy remaining to reach the squishy bits inside.So if 5% of the population carries a weapon at all, how many people do you imagine are wearing body armor? This guy prepared himself for the rarest of opponents: A shooter wearing body armor. Weird #2.
• The Suppressor. I’m not going to fault the guy for owning a suppressor and for keeping it installed on his pistol. Full attribution: I own a suppressor, although mine is for rifles and not pistols. There is a body of thought that says that if you’re going to keep a pistol (and especially a rifle or rifle-caliber pistol) as a home-defense weapon, that having that gun suppressed will keep you from seriously damaging your hearing when you fire that gun indoors. However, putting a suppressor on a CCW weapon complicates carrying and concealing that whole thing. Weird #3.
• Action Hero. I found this on Facebook. This week we’ve seen the stills and video shown on the left side of him in the drive-thru (?) of that In-and-Out. I have no comment on that. But look at the two videos on the right. In the upper right video, what in the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is he carrying for a rifle? It looks like some silly bullpup on which he’s thrown every accessory known to Tactical Man. Where’s the bayonet? Did he forget it at home? And he demonstrates his quickness in getting that (suppressed) pistol out of his Miami Vice shoulder holster. Yes, he has impressive speed. But he flags his own weak-side arm every time he draws that weapon. It is an unsafe method of carry and that is the main reason that nobody uses a shoulder holster anymore. And then there is the short video in the bottom right. He gives us a flashlight-illuminated mag-dump while behind his truck….a truck complete with not one, but two American flags. If a guy feels the need to document his [scare quotes] “training” [/scare quotes], then fine, take your movies. But why would you post these videos to Facebook? Do you not consider that should you ever find yourself in a shooting that these videos are going to be of potential use to a prosecutor or an attorney representing the person you shot? This guy has a movie playing out in his head, and he watches that movie over and over again. He is the Action Hero of his own movie. Very, very weird #4 and Unsafe #1.

This guy is a weirdo and he does the Gun Community no favors.