RONI Carbine Conversion

I was recently asked to give my thoughts on a RONI pistol-carbine conversion and come up with a course curriculum for a police department. Not knowing much about it, I was intrigued by the concept. You take your issued pistol, put it inside the conversion kit and in a couple quick seconds you have a shoulder fired, pistol caliber carbine. Why not?? The kit allows you to add red dot optics, flashlights, lasers, and or anything else that you feel would mission essential equipment to a standard 1913 pica tinny rail system. 

I started out by zeroing at 25 yards and shot it at 7, 10, 25, 50 and 100. I was curious with the height of the Eotech and the fact that it's still your pistol, how the gun would perform at the various distances. The gun performed well. As you can see, there was not much change. Even at 100 yards, there was only a 4 to 6 inch drop. I'm ok with that. If your looking to get M4 performance out of this system, it's not going to happen. You have to remember, this is still a pistol.

 I would say the max effective range of this system is around 100 yards. So the biggest disadvantage with this system is the ability to be effective over 100 yards. I tried to engage steel at 200 yards and could do it, however I don't believe under combat conditions this would be an option. I'd rather have a rifle.

Manipulations with this conversion such as "ready ups", slide lock reloads, tactical reloads, malfunctions and multiple targets are easy to achieve because it's the same as your pistol. So this type of setup does not require to much change in the training module. This in turn can keep cost down for departments.