RIMFIRE KRISS VECTOR

The KRISS Vector has been around for more than a decade, offered in pistol calibers from 9mm to 10mm. The Vector elicits polarized opinions from gun enthusiasts, but there’s no questioning its impact in popular culture. The firearms-entertainment website IMFDB.com enumerates over 60 appearances of the Vector in films, television shows, video games, and anime — and from a review of their list, it’s clearly incomplete. With its iconic appearance, the Vector is often used in science fiction productions as the basis for a fictional, futuristic weapon system, such as a number of rifles used in the Divergent series of feature films.

The key reason for this is the Vector’s very unique operating system, which results in a look unlike any other traditional firearm, even after all these years. Originally designed primarily as a submachine gun in 45 ACP, the Vector has an unusual, futuristic-looking polymer housing that contains the KRISS Super V System. It’s a delayed blowback action that sends the bolt assembly diagonally downward, behind the forward-mounted magazine. This