Jon Wayne Taylor awarded the Bond Arms Bullpup TTAG’s highest accolade: five stars. “It’s the end result of innovation, improvement and attention to detail,” our resident war hero wrote. “Mouse gun size, compact pistol velocity and handling.” Yes but — a bit too mousy for some. Enter the XR9-L . . .
We can’t review this gun yet; it’s a Bond Arms prototype. But we did shoot the sh*t out of it and it’s just as good as its baby brother — only longer! And that means . . .
A longer sight radius for more accurate shooting over distance. And greater [as yet unmeasured] bullet velocity for more “stopping power.”
One thing the XR9-L didn’t do: stop. We fed the Bond — Gordon Bond — pistol a steady diet of Hornady and IMI JHPs and some loose FMJs. The ass-backwards design performed without any hesitation, deviation and plenty of repetition.
And it felt gooood. The XR9-L boasts that most excellent trigger and better ergos, especially for large-handed Texans (who make the XR9-L look small).
We’ll give the Bond Arms Bullpup XR9-L a full test as and when. But this is the compact gun Jon wants to carry. What does that tell you?
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at least its less fugly
My best friend and I were mugged in NYC leaving a bar on the Upper Westside back in 1989.
Bobby decided to be a hero and now hes dead.
25acp to the head..
My gun was at home as I knew Id be drinking. In NYC if you have a permit you can go into bars by the way. Just don’t drink.
Give them what they want. They have the advantage.
The best you can do is to try and get home alive folks.
Talking doesn’t always work. Trying to grab a gun with the bad guys finger on the trigger rarely works in real life. That bullet is going to go someplace.
Don’t try to be a hero.
Most times it wont work.
If it’s a thousand bucks I’ll pass…who’s buying the original puppy at near that price?!?
I love the concept of a 4-4.25″ barrel sub compact carry gun. I will seriously be considering this one for my summer carry rotation.
To Mike Schneider
I would call them. I have had very good service from them on my Boberg XR-9-L They replaced the frame no charge. I have had zero problems since the fix.
I think maybe yours just needs braking in. Might be ok after two or three hundred rounds.
I have had no separation problems with my reloads. I put a cannelure on Rainer plated bullets the run the loaded bullet through the cannelure machine again to cannelure the brass into the bullet cannelure.
http://www.corbins.com/hct-1.htm
I have close to a couple thousand more Rainer bullets then I will try Badman bullets and roll crimp them.
Check out the Badman 95 grain 380 bullet It seems like it will take a nice slight roll crimp.
https://www.badmanbullets.com/OnlineStore/categories.php?cat=Polymer+Coated+Hard+Cast+Lead+Bullets
yet another “how stupid of a video can i make to get views. I GOT IT!”
If you’re not gonna eat it, don’t kill it. Otherwise you’re just an asshole.
so….was he charged. Sounds like a strict liability crime and he is guilty just by showing up with a weapon in his carry on bag. So…was he treated like everyone else and charged? Inquiring minds want to know…..may have to use the Barbour exception myself one day….
Wait, I thought we’re just supposed to give assailants whatever they want. You know ‘compliance’;-)
That moose din du nuffin!
Yet another example of someone self reporting an incident and getting a bunch of trouble for his honesty.
Guns fights are horribly fast and efficient, which doesn’t lead to much time for drama. Our hero needs to make contact with the nemesis, draw some blood, get punched in the face, take a knee or elbow, get thrown into a pile of bricks, or through a wall. The fight has to seem like our hero is up against a giant, with great personal danger, which in the last moment when it seems they can’t win, they triumph.
Taking a few bullets is usually a bad thing for our hero, especially since movie bullets throw you back 20 feet and maybe take your soul.
And just sitting behind cover while the boss fires but misses doesn’t feel as threatening as the lip bleed, spitting blood face punch. Again, we need the hero to take some hits to show the fight is serious!
Complainers always gotta complain.
It’s either a complaint about never having to reload a gun during a gunfight, or having a never-ending supply of magazines, or gunfights devolving into hand to hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMS4lYA-hEo
Fake news Indeed. We used to call it propaganda but the lies were more convincing back then
If 9 mm is king, then .357 magnum must be God.
so the guns get rmoved and she gets strangled to death or stabbed. but hey, much better than getting shot right? why are people so stupid?
Hey I’m still trying to figure out why the bad guys watched six rounds of .38 special bounce off Superman in the old black and white TV days and then throw the gun at him. I know that a steel Colt or Smith and Wesson can put a knot on your head, but Superman?
We have the same laws currently in California pending some litigation. You can own a rifle and own the 30 round mag but if you put the two together you magically become a felon.
Bond Arm Bullpup 9 review
I recently bought the Bond Arms Bullpup 9. They are very hard to obtain and usually a few on Gunbroker. None of my local dealers could get them, so I spent the $999 on Gunbroker and anxiously awaited my purchase.
I bought the recommended “Winchester white box”, 3 out of the 100 pulled the bullet from the shell and about 15 partial expel (jam) rather than loading into the barrel. I then ran 50 Fiocchi rounds through and no bullet separation but the gun did jam a few times (partial ejection rather than load round).
So far one box of Hornady American Gunner 115gr with no problems. I just ordered IMI 115gr Jacketed Hollow Points to try because the Hornady is too expensive to waste at the range.
I also had problems when I had only one or two bullets in the magazine and tried to load, the round would it would jam, you must have at least 3 or 4 rounds in the magazine in order to load.
I had intended this gun to be my everyday carry but right now I am not comfortable when my life is on the line.
I feel there is a problem with the design of the magazine, sometimes it’s too tight and very hard to remove, other times while loading the spring sticks and the last bullet just falls out. This could also be the problem with feeding.
As far as jamming goes it seems like round tip bullets jam where pointed (like the tapered hollow point seem to work better.
In closing, I was real excited to purchase this $1000 gun because of what it is but am a little disappointed that a $1000 gun is not reliable as an EDC as I intended. Perhaps I got a defect. I have run about 160 rounds through it and had to clean and oil it, ran more rounds but the same outcome.
I contacted Bond Arms on a sales related item with no reply.
To Mike Schneider
I would call them. I have had very good service from them on my Boberg XR-9-L They replaced the frame no charge. I have had zero problems since the fix.
I think maybe yours just needs braking in. Might be ok after two or three hundred rounds.
I have had no separation problems with my reloads. I put a cannelure on Rainer plated bullets the run the loaded bullet through then cannelure machine again to cannelure the brass into the bullet cannelure.
Inexpensive practice ammo
http://www.corbins.com/hct-1.htm
I have close to a couple thousand more Rainer bullets then I will try Badman bullets and roll crimp them.
Check out the Badman 95 grain 380 bullet It seems like it will take a nice slight roll crimp.
https://www.badmanbullets.com/OnlineStore/categories.php?cat=Polymer+Coated+Hard+Cast+Lead+Bullets
If Bond Arms is serious about these they’ll have to find a way to get it closer to the price of other pistols in its size class. I’m not saying it should be $400, but a little closer to 4-600 would do.