Every few years I get the PCC bug when I look at photos of the new hotness. And I get close to buying one and change my mind. Got close to buying a new Ruger PCC to use the glock mags I already have and the new magpul backpacker stock looks cool which I have for my 10/22 takedown.
But I don’t think I’ll buy it, when I look at what I want a PCC for, the only thing that makes sense, maybe, is an old school Uzi.
You see, I have no interest in using the PCC for competition, nor to shoot “cheaper” ammo for training/plinking (esp these days at 75 cents a round for 9mm), and I don’t want to keep it in my vehicle as a truck gun that can share mags with my CCW gun.
What I want and I recognize it’s stupid, is a bombproof gun that if the zombies come, I have a gun that I know works and can use the thousands of rounds of 9mm ball ammo I keep on hand for glock practice. The first PCC I wanted was the old keltec sub something first model and it had reliability concerns. Then I wanted an MP5 which was supposedly reliable but very expensive at the time ($3k+ back in 2005 or so for a custom built civilian one) And mags were $80 each.
The Skorpion or whatever CZ thing looks interesting but seems like a lot of plastic, because it’s meant to be a backpack gun.
Well, while it’s stupid, I want a carbine that if aliens invade, and if I grab the contents of my gun safe and throw them into the back of a pickup truck with no padding, because I’m out running the mushroom cloud, it will still go pew pew. Stupid, LARPing fantasy but I have no real “need” for a PCC, and this is the closest rationale that makes sense to me to own one.
I was always hesitant to buy an uzi back in the day because I didn’t want to deal with stockpiling yet another set of mags, but screw it. Give me an uzi and 7 30-round mags for long turn zombie hunting, maybe 2 more mags for training so I don’t wear the feed lips or springs on my 7 duty loadout, and I think I’d be happy.
But maybe UZis are crap. So I’m asking the forum, if I have the money to spend on this ridiculous idea of a bombproof PCC that runs 9mm and I can drop it off the roof onto concrete and bury in mud and it will still run, what gun do I buy, and which exact model? What accessories? Ideally no forearm brace pistol thing because I give it good odds those go away and I don’t want this hobby silly gun to turn into a hassle. I’m not trying to hide it in a bag or under a jacket, that’s what my 300 black SBR AR is for. This is purely a “oh crap, I’m out of rifle ammo, somehow i shot through the few thousand rounds of that, and I didn’t die, so I need a new primary long gun that’s 9mm”
The common sense answer is to use this money towards more rifle ammo so I don’t get to the position of having to resort to 9mm ball. But none of this fantasy makes sense and in a few months, it may be impossible to buy a PCC and “high cap” mags so FOMO is involved with LARPing fantasy and fears of hyperinflation where my money won’t be worth much in the future.