Y'all are reading wayyy too much between the lines on me haha. I saw a thread that was question about the 1301 and thought it'd be bad taste to ignore it since I'm active here.
I was a bit short on the answer because I'm flying out for SHOT tomorrow and there's a LOT flying around for last minute prep (it's pistols for me this year). I'd bet TC and MH are busy for similar reasons (I know MH is since I'm seeing him this weekend).
I thought no comment would be a safe funny answer but before this spins out: a less coy answer to the original question of:
Sure, I guess there is. There's no technical reason it wouldn't work, but I wanted to be clear it's not exactly a small technical resources lift to do right. If that project was going to happen there'd be a big capex requirement as well in order to get the furniture up to par with out current standards. All that means years of development work with an open schedule and as you'll all see next week, that team hasn't exactly been sitting on their hands.
I certainly like the concept of this kind of gun, and yes I've discussed it with folks in the past; I personally do think it'd be a neat little gun. I'll be very curious to see how the new federal load performs in the correct length barrel. I'm with you all on this personally, and it's neat seeing other thoughts on this type of gun that I hadn't considered.
Professionally though, I'm not in a position to say anything about the future officially one way or another. I can just comment on stuff from the past, present public items, and some SME side general industry info.