Rifles.

On folding carbines. A pistol caliber carbine earns its place two ways: ammunition commonality and manageable recoil. Running the same 9mm as your service pistol means one caliber in the safe and one magazine in the pouch. And a 16-inch barrel turns a round designed for four inches into something meaningfully faster and flatter. The SUB2000 adds a third reason - it folds to sixteen inches with the optic on, which is the Gen 3 rotating forend doing work no other carbine does.

On bullpups. A conventional 5.56 rifle needs about 36 inches to deliver a 17-inch barrel. The RDB17 does it in 27.3, and nothing is traded away ballistically - the round still travels the full barrel. What you gain is the ability to clear a doorway without leading with a foot of extra muzzle. Downward ejection means brass drops through the stock behind the magwell rather than across your face, so either shoulder works and there is no shell deflector to design around. The trigger is the part people do not expect: bullpup triggers are notoriously bad, and we fixed ours.

On the SU16 line. This is where the modern Sport Utility rifle was reinvented. Gas piston operated, AR-15 magazine compatible, and light enough that you stop noticing you brought it. Several models store two spare magazines in the buttstock and fold their forend into a bipod. The SU16C fires in the folded position, which almost nothing else does.

On rimfire that punches above itself. The CMR30 runs thirty rounds of .22 Magnum through a 16-inch barrel in a 3.8-pound package, and ships with two magazines. Low recoil, cheap to shoot all afternoon, ballistics that bridge rimfire and centerfire. It is the reason "truck gun" appears in our own copy.

Defender configurations. Several rifles are also available as Defenders - the same firearm with an optic mounted, backup sights fitted, three magazines and platform-appropriate furniture in the box. Those appear alongside the standard models here.

Every KelTec rifle is designed, machined and assembled in Cocoa, Florida. Our engineers work fifty feet from the CNC floor, which is how a design change gets cut, tested and fired in the same week.