S&W Introduces Folding 9mm Carbine, the FPC
Smith & Wesson is continuing to claw at the air with new products for 2023 by producing a 9mm pistol caliber carbine, dubbed the FPC.
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Mar 2023
Smith & Wesson is continuing to claw at the air with new products for 2023 by producing a 9mm pistol caliber carbine. As sort of a no-brainer, it is based on their M&P9 pistol but with a longer 16-inch barrel. Of interest, the carbine, dubbed the FPC, has a left-folding barrel assembly that roughly drops it in half.
Additional features include a handguard with an upper Picatinny rail and M-LOK accessory slots, what Smith calls a flat-face trigger, and the typical M&P9 pistol’s interchangeable palm swells. The buttstock holds two extra mags. It ships with a carrying bag designed with multiple Velcro storage compartments and has an MSRP of $659.
![S&W FPC carbine cover](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2FSW-FPC-carbine-cover.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Of course, folks are bagging on the fact that it kind of sort of just mimics the less expensive KelTec SUB2000, which has been out for almost a quarter century, and that there was a huge blitz on social media by just about every big-name Guntuber out there kind of low-key shilling for the FPC.
![S&W FPC-side](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2FSW-FPC-side.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Speaking of videos, Jerry Miculek had about the most entertaining of the bunch.
![](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2F12575-mp-FPC-Features_Case__06165.1677270636.1280.1280.png&w=3840&q=75)
![](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2F12575-mp-FPC-Features_Magazine_Storage__57031.1677270646.1280.1280.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![FPC-Features_Palmswell](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2F12575-mp-FPC-Features_Palmswell__58901.1677270645.1280.1280.png&w=3840&q=75)
Time will tell on this one.
Anyway, KelTec seems to have a good sense of humor about the whole thing, and, the day after Smith announced the FPC, the Florida gun maker debuted a $100 rebate for the $578 MSRP’d SUB2000 set to run for the next few months.
![keltec rebate](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.americanfirearms.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2Fkeltec-rebate.jpg&w=1920&q=75)
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