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MKS Supply is giving their Hi-Point .380 ACP a yeet into the new year. No, they aren’t chucking their .380s out of the line, rather they’re giving it the full Yeet Cannon treatment with the release of the YC380. This will add a threaded barrel, the new style grips, reshaped slide with optics mounting options and the Glock style replaceable front sight, as well as a double stack 10-round magazine. MSRP is still a very reasonable $229, and they’re covered by Hi-Point’s lifetime warranty. Check out the press release info below:

MKS Supply Introduces the YC380: New Hi-Point .380 Handgun

MKS Supply, The exclusive distributor of Hi-Point Firearms, is thrilled to announce the launch of the Hi-Point YC380 .380 Handgun. This eagerly awaited addition to the Hi-Point lineup combines superior performance, the new “Yeet Cannon” design, and enhanced versatility to meet the needs of firearm enthusiasts and professionals alike.

The Hi-Point YC380 stands for “Yeet Cannon” and is the latest addition to the Yeet family line up, following the wildly successful YC9. Like all Hi-Points, the YC380 comes with the Hi-Point Lifetime warranty. The Yeet Cannon was named by the supporters of Hi-Point Firearms during a contest they called “The peoples pistol- name our nine”. The YC380 comes out as HI Point’s top-tier .380 handgun, equipped with a threaded barrel that enhances its adaptability for various accessories. The 1/2-28 threads on the 4.12″ barrel length allows users to effortlessly attach suppressors, compensators, and other muzzle devices, elevating the shooting experience to new heights and offering customers more options. Other features include a Glock style replaceable front sight, new stylized grips, backstrap safety, reversable backstrap for a more customized fit, a new styled slide for a better look, adaptable for mounting a red dot plate and a proprietary double to single stack magazine.

The new YC380 will come in a black/steel grey version with and without the threaded barrel and a model with “YEET CANNON” boldly engraved on the slide.

Key Specifications:
· Caliber: .380 (YC380)
· Barrel length: 4.12″ (1/2-28 THREADS)
· Overall length: 7.6″
· Overall height: 5.8″
· Overall width: 1.4″
· Weight (unloaded): 34.2 oz
· Rifling: 9 LH twists
· Magazine capacity: 10 rounds

The YC380 features a precision-crafted barrel with 9 LH twists, optimizing bullet stabilization and enhancing accuracy. This rifling technology allows for consistent performance, shot after shot, providing shooters with confidence in their aim and improving overall shooting proficiency. The weight of the unloaded handgun is 34.2 ounces, which helps to reduce felt recoil and a more accurate shot. Additionally, the Hi-Point YC9 boasts a magazine capacity of 10 rounds, and is plus P rated so the user can shoot both FMJ ammo as well as self-defense ammunition.

“As a brand committed to innovation and customer satisfaction, we are delighted to introduce the Hi-Point YC380,” said Kara Boesenberg, EVP for MKS Supply. “We are super excited to continue offering hi-quality firearms at affordable prices, and the YC380 fits that mold perfectly.”

The Hi-Point YC380 is the latest addition to MKS Supply’s distinguished lineup of firearms. It exemplifies the company’s dedication to producing high-quality, reliable firearms designed to meet the needs of diverse shooting communities.

The YC380 is expected to start shipping to market Q2 of 2024 with an MSRP starting at $229!

For more information about the Hi-Point YC380 and other products from MKS Supply, please visit MKS Supply

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    • “A face only a possum could love.

      Hi-Points are, if anything, boringly reliable guns.

      If I had very little money and needed a gun, at that price, they are a solid choice.

      With a straight blowback action, that little gun would make a dandy conversion to a select-fire submachine gun, when we get the select-fire registry re-opened… 😉

      • Believe me. If I was suddenly without a gun and money was tight I’d get a HiPoint and call it good.

        But I would never call a HiPoint pretty.

      • Hi-Points are garbage. No range around here that rents firearms will rent them, though many of them say they are big sellers. They break too much. In 2012 some people from the late Todd Louis Green’s “Pistol-training.com” forum did a “torture test” on a Hi-Point 9mm and gave up after about five thousand rounds due to the sheer number of malfunctions, which were so frequent that they had great difficulty completing short defensive handgun drills with it. Ammunition was nothing exotic, either, just factory new Federal FMJ. The malfunctions, if I recall correctly, were mostly failures to extract and failures to eject–the Hi-Point, you may recall, has no ejector, and its firing pin, terrifyingly, serves both roles, and if you don’t know why that’s frightening, consider racking the slide to unload the round in the chamber. They even had feedway stoppages. Somehow round-nose FMJ nose-dived and stuck on the bottom of the feed ramp, and not just once, either. Over and over. The magazines are neither better designed nor better made than anything else about them.

        https://web.archive.org/web/20121102105042/http://gunnuts.net/2012/08/27/the-hi-point-challenge/

        Every gun store local to me where I know anyone behind the counter well enough to ask tells me that Hi-Points are by far the most common warranty returns, because they are irredeemable, unfixable, miserable trash, horribly designed and made of materials unsuitable for use in a firearm. They tell me that they are on the same level 1960s “Rohm” and “Clerke” potmetal .22 revolvers, with which they share some design similarities, and that the only reason even more of them don’t go back to the manufacturer under warranty is that the vast majority of people who buy them put them in the sock drawer and never shoot a single round from them. They’re no worse than the other potmetal “problem solvas” from Jennings and Stallard and Jimenez and Cobra and Davis, but no better, either. They make Taurus, Rossi, Llama, and Bersa products look good by comparison. It’s better than a homemade zipgun made out of pipe and rubber bands, I guess. A little better. Probably. Maybe. If the zipgun wasn’t made with really high quality rubber bands, you know.

        • You forgot Bryco.
          And just to reinforce the point, when I was young and broke I bought a new Jennings nine. It was like $159 or so at the time. When I finally got a minute to take it out and shoot it, it was terrible. This gun would only fire every other time you pulled the trigger. And it didn’t experience any load or ejection failures. You’d fire, it would cycle, you’d go to fire again and get a misfire. You rack the slide and try again and bang. The next time misfire. This gun, whatever was wrong with it, would only fire every other trigger pull no matter what you changed. I was so pissed off I went and tossed it in a pond where it could rust into it’s final resting place. Shortly thereafter I scraped up every nickel I could and bought a Glock. I still have that Glock today, 23 years later

    • Good thing about being an ugly – but cheap and reliable – gun is that there’s no concern about keeping it looking fresh and “nice”. Would make for a great emergency cache item. Buy it, test it, pack it away. Buy another, rinse and repeat.

    • HiPoint had a naming contest and that is what the majority voted for. I doubt the ‘ethnic/ghetto’ types were making entries into the contest.

      • They may as well engrave the word shit into the side of it. When you need it and it lets you down, you’ll find that model leaves shit in your shorts.

  7. In 380? Wouldn’t that be more of a yeet trebuchet?

    In any case, no thank you to the urban pink treatment. I’ve never owned nor shot one so I have no experience on which to draw as to reliability etc … but, just no.

    • And with 3ft of 130braid whizzing it around your head a right nice Muskrat basher.
      I’m sure everyone remembers the story I told when I kayaked into a group of Muskrats doing the Muskrat love.
      Had it not been for the HiPoint on a string I’m sure I wouldn’t be here today.

    • Yeah, I’d rather have the Hi-Point.
      Walther is running its name game, the last one I used wasn’t so great.
      As the saying goes” They don’t make them like they used to.”

  10. RE: Weight (unloaded): 34.2 oz

    Not only is it large for a .380 it must be made of cast iron. Probably OK for a bidenomics better than nothing first gun if it runs out of the box which if it does would be a surprise. Otherwise add some dollars and purchase something better.

    • These cheap guns are made of pot metal cast zinc alloy or Zamak. While this alloy isn’t all that heavy in and of itself it isn’t very strong either so to make it strong enough to hold up in a firearm they need to use more of it compared to high-carbon gunmetal steel. Everything must be thicker, wider and beefed up to counter the inherent weakness of the alloy. Thus it is big, ugly, and clunky.

    • “Not only is it large for a .380 it must be made of cast iron.”

      Didn’t you just claim the other day you knew far more about guns than me?

      I’ve known about guns made from Zamak since the early 1980s… 😉

        • There is a masonry fastener used in concrete and bricks/blocks called a Zamac too. it’s basically a long mushroom -head cylinder with a nail sticking into the mushroom side. Drill the appropriate sized hole and stick the fastener through whatever you are fastening to the wall and hit the nail into the mushroom with a hammer to make the zinc pot metal mushroom expand because the nail was spreading it as it got hammered in.

          We would call them “Smacks” because that is how you use them. When we were running low we would tell the supply guy we needed another box of 1/4″ smacks.

          I guess that was funnier in my head than after looking at what I just wrote ..

        • ayca aysin turan, images.
          depending on needed length we say “going to defcon five.”
          for tap- cons.
          nm.

  11. I get the extra heavy slide design for high pressure cartridges like 9mm; they’re using weight to make a simple blowback design work. But, .380ACP is routinely used in a blowback design without the extra heavy slide. Is Hi-Point unable to produce the correct springs or do they simply want to keep the design language (i.e., butt ugly) the same throughout their product line?

      • Weaker pot metal needs to thicker, heavier and more beefed-up compared to high-quality gun steel just to perform the same task and withstand the same forces.

        • They use pot metal so they can mass-produce them with die-injection molds to save on manufacturing costs…

  13. I’ve no issues with them. Poor folk have the right to be armed too. The ones I’ve handled in different calibers ran. The slides are massive and follow up shots aren’t gonna be IG worthy lol.

    • Hold the gunm up to your face like it’s a rifle.
      I tried that to get more recoil but just about blew my nose off so be careful.

  17. I for one, really wish they would redesign their carbines to accept double stack magazines.
    A sub $400 PCC might prove to be a hit, build one in 10mm and they might have a winner.

    • Right – they bragged about this “double-stack magazine” like it was a big deal, but all it did was bring capacity up to the level of a single-stack 9mm 1911.

      The easiest way IMHO would be to build a frame that would interface with the ZEV Glock-mag grip frames, which are surprisingly inexpensive. They could also use P320 or P365 frames, although the mags cost more. It would also require some minor slide alterations.

  18. If .380 was all I could come up with, it might as well be one of these. At that weight, it’d be much better to try to beat a thug over the head with if the .380 didn’t stop him right away. Way better than a KelTec or plastic Ruger for that.

    • 9mm is my much cheaper to shoot than .380 by far.

      There are plenty of cheap used 9mm guns out there that would cost less than one of these new. You could probably find a police trade-in gluk for what this abomination costs.

  19. Would i like to trust my life to a Hi-Point? No.
    But they want to arm every american at the most affordable price, and that’s a respectable goal. I may not love them, but i respect their 2A stance.

  20. Big effing deal. Automakers do that. They take some model of car, throw on some plastic garbage and some LED lights and and a different name badge, be it SS, SE, Custom or whatever, as it’s meaningless. Then they charge X amount of money more for it when it cost the manufacturer $20

    It’s lipstick on a pig. Hi Point is trying to get a tiny share of the market with their shit pistol by trying to make it more appealable. Good luck with that. I suppose there is a market though for those that aren’t that serious about their defense or perhaps need a cheap ass range gun for putting 1000s of rounds through it but I wouldn’t own it, hell, I wouldn’t even steal it!!

  21. Wow, the only plastic gunm that has some semblance to beauty.
    To bad they dont make one in 50cal, Desert Eagle would be out of buisness.
    And holding up a HiPoint and comparing it to a Colt Python or S&W Mod29 , really makes one wonder why Colt or Smith spend so much to produce an inferior gunm in both looks and performance.
    YeetCannon ‘Yee Yee’

    • I’d love to see a direct-blowback pot metal gun in .50AE just for ships and gibbles. It’d take Thor to lift it because it would be as heavy as his magic hammer.

  23. Wow, this comment section is mostly a prime example of what is wrong with 2A culture.
    Hi-Point makes what they make. If it’s not for you, why waste your own time complaining about their product?

    Do the guns work? Yes. Do you need it? Only you know that. If all you can afford is one of their guns it will get the job done.
    Be better people. We lose ground trashing each other and other companies.

  24. Hi-Point pistols are definitely the ‘Brown Baggers’ of hand guns for sure. They get the job done but you don’t want your buddies to see you with it.

  26. It’s about time someone provided a 380 with a threaded barrel.
    Fun fact: virtually all 380 ACP ammo is subsonic, making 380 handguns a great suppressor host, if only more manufacturers would thread the barrel.
    Granted, 380 ACP may not be the ideal defensive caliber, but 380 ACP guns are better suppressor hosts than 9mm, in which most ammo is supersonic except the super-heavy 158 grain stuff, and better than 22 rimfire for defense, but obviously not as good as 45 ACP for defense. So why don’t they thread all barrels for 380 ACP? Why isn’t there an aftermarket for threaded barrels in 380 ACP like there is for 9mm?

  27. I guess if you hadn’t read about it, nor ever owned one of the many brands they operated under in the last 20-30 years you would be ok to buy one. And as said, it’s better than not having one at all. I frequently say this, that a bad guy is highly unlikely to stop during a gun fight and ask what caliber you are sending his way from your pink colored handgun. (I added pink to highlight the point that color and caliber aren’t usually on the top of a person’s mind when being shot at)
    But the story behind the company is long, rife with bankruptcies and lawsuits. And the bankruptcies were all a part of the nefarious plan to evade being sued. And it worked for about 20 years. Just the timeline I can remember is something like this: Jennings, Bryco, Jimenez, JA Industries were the succession of companies that usually had one opening just after the previous filed for bankruptcy. I found an article talking about roughly half the story that seems to be pretty well fact filled.
    https://www.thetrace.org/2020/08/jimenez-arms-bryco-bankruptcy-gun-company/

    At the end of the day, I owned a Jennings and a Bryco. (long before I had any real understanding of metallurgy or it’s effect on handguns) The Jennings was a lemon. It would only fire every other time, regardless of what you did to try and fix it. It was brand new but by the time I came into possession of it, but it cost almost as much in shipping charges to send it in and get it back than it would have been to just buy a replacement. However if one fails new from the box, then they all probably have quality issues (again, before I knew anything about metallurgy)
    I also owned a Bryco many many years ago when I turned 21. It was a turd to 9th degree. One range officer wouldn’t even let me shoot it at their range. I figured out later that the serial number had been, uh, messed with and decided it was best to just get rid of that. But that did teach me a little lesson about cheap handguns. After those two failures, I bought a Glock that I still own today, 23 years later.

    Moral of the story here, if you can’t afford something better these are better than nothing. But I would “highly” recommend that you start saving every nickel you can and buy something else. Hell even a SCCY would be better and they are super cheap. Or buy a well know brand name like Smith and Wesson. Their SD9VE brand new is $379. Used they sell for $300 or less sometimes. But it goes bang every time you pull the trigger.

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