This isn’t about a P365 holding 15 rounds. This is about a G43 holding 10. And maybe it doesn’t solving anything for you, but this will sell like hot cakes, relative to the company’s manufacturing throughout.
Yeah, so like, 100-300 frames maybe, whoopty do. In a year it will be forgotten about. Maybe less if it's a dumpster fire.
Also, to say people are not carrying a P365 for its “more” capacity is just plain and simply wrong. That’s the number one reason for most people. 10 rounds in a tiny package.
Maybe for a few people, but I would hazard a guess that most P365 buyers never had a gun in that size class before, at all. Most of the buyers are in the new CCW crowd that's
been on the rise since Obamascare2. I don't see droves of people dumping their existing micro-9s, whether it's a Kahr, Shield, XDs, 43, whatever, to buy one of these
things. Most smart people are going to go "whats the value prop of this, oh I get 4 extra rounds. That's nice, but not necessarily worth dumping my *whatever* over. Hell like two
people I know that actually -did- "trade up" with it did it out of the trigger (preference for 365 trigger) the capacity was just a bonus, not a primary motivator.
I used to be one of those fgts that got all juiced up over capacity but I guess now I don't care that much anymore, as long as I can make the choice. I have plenty of stuff that carries gobs
of ammo if I want to carry it. When I carry my 43 it's because I literally don't want the extra weight. I don't care if it's only .03 ounces or whatever. Getting 6+1 or 8+1 is
enough for me (with a backup mag of course) Larding the entire setup with a bunch of ammo is sort of an antithesis to it's purpose- if I'm going to do that I'm just going to say f*** it and carry a larger gun, and then win all the other bonuses that come along with that, better shoot-ability, handling, etc.
And the 15 round flush-fit magazine for the G43X/G48 can’t be made fast enough. People really do want additional capacity in their G43s.
If they can make it and its reliable, great. Depending on the price it will probably sell well. Then again, most people won't care, either. This is all mostly gun hipster stuff.
I just get jaded when I see people jerking off over every new thing the industry spews out, as if every new product is some kind of life changing event. "No, it's not".
If it makes you excited to buy gun hipster stuff, more power to you... just as long as you realize that most of this stuff is more or less moving sideways and not up. This armflapping about cramming a handful more rounds in a tiny handgun is like guys getting excited about putting a lift kit on a honda civic and then trying to tell everyone their lift kit has now turned the civic into an off road vehicle,
because, lift kit, and because, vtec.
-Mike