{"id":1759,"date":"2020-01-09T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T08:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ammoman.com\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:12:30","slug":"compact-9mm-single-stack-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammoman.com\/blog\/compact-9mm-single-stack-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Compact 9mm Single Stack Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compact 9mm Pistols: The Last Word In Concealed Carry?<\/span><\/h1>\n

9mm pistols are nothing new. They\u2019ve been around since Georg Luger upsized the 7.65×21 Parabellum round and used it in a pistol. Single stack magazines, where all the rounds are laid on top of one another, have been around for as long as we\u2019ve had semi-automatic pistols. Compact pistols are nothing new either. They trace their origins back to some of the very first semi-automatic pistols. Finally, polymer-framed guns began to appear in the 1970s, and they now comprise a large portion of today\u2019s market for concealed carry pistols.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is fairly new, however, is putting all of those disparate elements together in one gun. The polymer-framed, single stack, compact 9mm pistol has been around for just a short time. The Kel-Tec PF9 was introduced in 2006, and the first version of the Ruger LC9 was rolled out in 2011. Since then, the small and thin polymer 9mm pistol has really taken off. Almost every major pistol manufacturer has some type of compact 9mm in their lineup, and more new models continue to be rolled out each year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n