Was messing around with my wife and my Keltec P32’s yesterday and it got me to thinking about that Semiauto Scorpion pistol that someone was or is making. It’s not like that’s a great pistol design even in its original machine pistol configuration or that the 32 ACP is all that useful except in the guise of a highly concealable pistol but, be that as it may it made me wonder.

How would it be in a carbine type firearm? The semi-rimmed case can lend itself to feed issues more so than a true rimless case. It’s not very powerful nor particularly cheap but it does have low recoil and it should be pretty cheap to reload though smaller case and bullet combinations are a little harder to manipulate if you have single stage presses like mine.

With the small size of the round I’d think you could manage a magazine with quite a payload for its size. Maybe something like a Keltec Sub 2000? It could be a straight blowback. Perhaps something built on a Roger 10/22 platform.

My wife and I have never had an issue with our P-32’s. We both carry S&B 73gr. FMJ at 1000+ FPS. I’ve always gone by the theory that in a cartridge in this power range that penetration is more important than expansion. Was just thinking a little carbine with a 50rd + mag with little or no recoil that isn’t a rim fire might be fun.