The sights had their design and placement changed, while the internal recoil buffer was replaced with a threaded metal end cap after reports of shooters destroying their weapons by firing overpressure ammunition out of them. The TEC-9 is more or less identical to the KG-99, except for a few differences in the sights and recoil buffer. In 1984, Interdynamic USA's co-founder, George Kellgren, sold his share of the company to the other founder Carlos Garcia, who renamed the company to Intratec. The fully automatic guns in that show were KG-99s legally converted to full auto by Title II manufacturers. before founding Kel-Tec) and Cuban-American designer Carlos Garcia.Īs the 1980s progressed, shows like Miami Vice popularized the KG-9/TEC-9. The KG stands for the two founders of Interdynamic USA, Swedish designer George Kellgren (who later ran Grendel, Inc. Production of the KG-9 only lasted about a year with around 2,500 guns produced in total. and it went to market as the open bolt semi-automatic KG-9 pistol, which was bought in large numbers by criminals and often converted to full-auto. Their design didn't generate much interest amongst the military clients of the world, so they brought their design to the U.S. Interdynamic AB of Sweden first tried to sell their 9x19mm submachine gun design to military buyers.

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