Single Stacks Regain Popularity in Concealed Carry Cliques

By Jacki Billings

Single stacks are popular options for concealed carry due to their small size. From left to right: Walther PPS, Smith & Wesson M&P Sheild in 9mm and Kahr CW9. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)
Single-stack pistols are back in style as more gun owners turn to these slim, compact models that offer better concealment and sometimes a better in-hand fit.
Single stacks — handguns that use a magazine in which rounds stack one on top of the other — were once the go-to style but fell out of favor in the mid-1980s as gun makers began pushing duty-sized, semi-automatic handguns with capacities reaching heights of 17 rounds. So why, three decades later, are manufacturers forgoing full-sized options in favor of slimmer, smaller single stacks?
Instructor Rob Pincus said the shift comes down to consumers. Pincus himself is immersed in the process of designing a single stack — the PD10 — under new gun start-up Avidity Arms. The PD10 is a 9mm that Pincus said he created as a single stack to coincide with a variety of hand sizes with carrying in mind.
“Manufacturers are responding to the growing number of people who want to carry defensive pistols, but are not interested in pretending they are carrying

Source: Guns.com