Everyone loves a folding subgun. If it’s not the kid in Robocop 2 with a blue DEB M21, then it’s an old SHOT video of Magpul’s Drake Clark snapping out the FMG-9. At one point, we’d have declared the heyday of these to be in ’80s action movies, but nay, that time is actually right now. Folding guns have always been cool, but now they’re more numerous, much better, and more practical.
The latest comes from B+T — the KH9 Covert. And like any Swiss company, B+T does it with both style and panache. The official story is the KH9 Covert was developed to be part of a pilot Escape and Evasion kit; it could only be so big or else it wouldn’t fit. The real story underpins the name itself: KH stands for “Karl’s Hobby.” Karl Brügger himself says, “I just like the idea of a folding magazine and a folding handgrip that will turn a 9mm carbine into the most compact package available …
When I was a young boy, I saw the film Lost Command with Anthony Quinn and all the legionaries had the SMGs with the folding magazine, and I thought that I just had to have one.”
Simply put, the KH9 Covert was going to be made anyway, but rather than being a hobby, it found a home inside ejection seats.
ACTION & CONTROLS
The closed-bolt blowback action itself comes from B+T’s original KH9,
