Particularly in 3-Gun where, depending on the rule set, a PCC could theoretically be used in place of a rifle, pistol, or a shotgun (or all three) on many stages. And those folks that were showing up were often beating the pants off the other competitors. At the time, PCC’s were just starting to show up in small numbers at local matches – perhaps 1 or 2 at most. In mid-2016, SIG Sauer sent me an MPX Carbine for Test and Evaluation. The GMR-15 suffers from the same inherent weakness of all blow-back AR-15’s – they’re based on a platform that was designed to run an entirely different caliber (5.56/2.23). The advantage however that the MPX has is that it was designed from the ground up to be a piston driven PCC platform. The MPX was primarily designed for the military, police, and civilian markets as sort of a “next generation” H&K MP5 successor. While the GMR-15 was purposely designed for competitive shooting, SIG had no idea when they designed the MPX in 2013 and brought it to market in 2016 what a hit it would be among competitive shooters. In that time, two premium platforms have emerged as the preferred choice of PCC shooters – the JP Enterprises GMR-15 and the SIG MPX. USPSA, Steel Challenge, IDPA, and 3-Gun Nation all created new divisions in their respective games for PCC shooters in 2016, and the subsequent growth has been phenomenal. Love it or hate it, Pistol Caliber Carbines (PCCs) have quickly become a dominant force in competitive shooting.
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