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CQB Brawler: The LA-K12 Puma Bullpup Shotgun
The 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun is a staple of personal and home defense. It provides incredible stopping power with super-simple controls that make the manually operated scattergun a paragon of reliability.
Except, that’s not always true. Manually operated shotguns, including pump-, lever-and bolt-action designs, can malfunction if not operated forcefully enough, or too forcefully. Additionally, these same shotguns tend to be difficult for novices to reload under ideal conditions, and nigh impossible during the terrifying moments of a home invasion.
Furthermore, unless the gun has been legally registered as a short-barreled shotgun (SBS) with the BATFE and the owner is in possession of a tax stamp, they tend to be a bit too long and unwieldy to maneuver with indoors. Even those that are short enough to be handy in confined spaces are either exceptionally heavy or hold so few rounds of ammunition that the home defender might as well just use a handgun.
Ideally, a home-defense shotgun should be maneuverable, reliable, easy to reload and well balanced. It should be light enough for anyone to use, but not so light that the recoil becomes unmanageable. For years, I felt this mythical “perfect shotgun” was just that—a myth—until the LA-K12 Puma was introduced.
Becoming A Reality
The LA-K12 Puma is actually a product of cooperation between the Canadian company Lever Arms and the private Kuandian Shotgun Factory in Liaoning, China. The Puma began life as a riot gun for Chinese paramilitary and riot police units. This is why the gun looks so similar to the QBZ-95 assault rifle used by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The designer basically scaled up the QBZ-95’s design to accommodate 12-gauge shells.
For the uninitiated, this means the LA-K12 Puma is a short-stroke-piston-driven, semi-automatic shotgun that feeds from box-type magazines. Because of the bulk of shotshells, and their tendency to rim-lock in a staggered or double-column stack, the magazines are single-stack only. This limits their capacity to five rounds. Thankfully, the Puma ships with two magazines, so an additional five rounds are only a second or two away. This is vastly quicker and easier than loading individual rounds into a magazine tube via a loading gate.
The LA-K12 Puma is a bullpup shotgun, meaning its action lies behind the pistol grip. Because of this, the gun is very short—a mere 31 inches from nose to butt—despite having a 19-inch barrel. The barrel is also threaded for external Saiga-type muzzle devices. This is important because the Puma ships with a cylinder-bore barrel. Companies like SGM Tactical manufacture muzzle devices like brakes, compensators and chokes so shooters can modify the Puma’s patterning and recoil to fit their needs.
Another great feature is the adjustable gas system. Though simplistic and consisting of only two gas settings—normal and wide open—it was versatile enough to run every test round with some tweaking. So, shooters who want to load up with birdshot for competition, steel for plinking or buckshot for home defense can dial their guns in accordingly.
CQB Brawler
The LA-K12 Puma’s bullpup configuration is ideal for use in cramped spaces like vehicles or the tight corridors of houses. Because its action is located so far rearward, the barrel can begin sooner and end less than a foot past the gas system. This means the gun is very compact, but consequently, very rear-heavy. When shooters insert a fully loaded steel magazine into the gun, it becomes even more so.
Unlike most magazine-fed shotguns, the Puma doesn’t utilize a forward locking tab to secure its magazines within the gun. Instead, it uses a locking latch on the left side of the magazine body. This configuration is a result of the Puma’s use of a magazine release button over a latch. Interestingly enough, this is the only gun with a push-button magazine release that would have objectively been better served with an AKM-style latch setup.
How? Well, the magazine release button is ambidextrous—which is good—but it’s also absurdly small. Think half the size of a .22 cartridge. Worse yet, it requires tremendous force to actuate, making it difficult and sometimes painful to use.
Additionally, it has a latch attached to the magazine well, but said latch is actually the bolt release. The logic behind this configuration eludes me, as swapping the two controls would have adhered the popular trends in bullpup ergonomics. This leads me to believe the setup is the product of either dodging litigation, or simply the adaptation of the civilian QBZ carbine’s strange push-button magazine release.
Since we’re on the subject of ergonomics, the safety selector switch is located in a truly bizarre spot—the buttstock. Like the magazine release, this design quirk is a holdover from civilian QBZ carbines. It consists of a rotating dial with “safe” and “fire” settings. The selector itself is fairly easy to use, but its location means right-handed shooters will need to reach into their armpits to toggle the selector. Left-handed shooters have it even worse; they need to cant the Puma 45 degrees toward their body and reach over the gun with their support hands.
The bolt release, however, is pretty user friendly. It’s oversized and easy to hit for both left- and right-handed shooters. Furthermore, due to its proximity to the magazine well, shooters can insert a fresh mag and close the bolt on said mag in one motion.
Another positive aspect about the Puma’s ergonomics is the built-in foregrip. It’s a strange shape, but one heavily influenced (read “copied”) by the QBZ rifles in service with the PLA. It’s an interesting design, allowing the shooter to use it as either an angled foregrip or a traditional vertical grip. One oddity about the latter method: It requires the shooter keep the thumb of their support hand inside the triggerguard.
Soft Shooting
The receiver shell covers more than 90 percent of the firearm. This keeps the design sleek and, more importantly, lightweight. Despite this, the LA-K12 Puma shotgun doesn’t produce as much felt recoil as most semi-automatic or pump-action shotguns. This appears to be the result of a combination of the bolt’s rearward travel being slowed by the gas system and how the gun’s layout gives the shooter mechanical advantage over the recoil impulse itself. The small foregrip in particular proved very useful for smaller shooters to better control the gun.
As for the trigger, it’s no Beretta over/under, but it’s good enough for combat or plinking use. My trigger scale measured it at around 8 pounds, with a spongy, almost early-Glock-like break. On top, the Puma has a full-length Picatinny rail for mounting optics or backup sights.
In testing, Aimpoint’s CompM4 worked well for engaging steel poppers and plate racks out to 25 yards. Beyond that, the cylinder bore tended to pattern its shot wherever it wanted.
In terms of reliability, the Puma performed as it should with any shell that would fit inside its magazines. This prohibited some slightly long buckshot shells and one slug with a protruding projectile. Some of the lighter-dram rounds had trouble cycling the action with the gas setting on less flow, but it ran without issue when the dial was turned to wide open.
Overall, the LA-K12 Puma is a cool design with a few flaws. The handiness and compact nature of the design tend to overshadow its ergonomic woes, but left-handed shooters might want to steer clear. If you can learn a slightly strange manual of arms, then buyers will have one of the most compact, softest-shooting shotguns made.
LA-K12 Puma Specs
Gauge: 12, 2¾-inch chamber Barrel: 19 inches OA Length: 31 inches Weight: 8 pounds (empty) Stock: Polymer Sights: None Action: Piston-operated semi-auto Finish: Matte black Capacity: 5+1 MSRP: $899
LA-K12 Puma Performance
Buckshot Spread Federal 9-Pellet 00 Personal Defense 13.7 Hornady 9-Pellet 00 Critical Defense 14.3 Winchester 9-Pellet 00 1,895
*Buckshot spread measured in inches at 15 yards.
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Review: LA K12 Puma Bullpup Shotgun
LA K12 Puma Bullpup Shotgun Edward Osborne 09.24.15
You won’t find the LA K12 Puma on the shelf of most gun stores. In fact, you won’t find it anywhere in the United States. But it’s one of the most unique shotguns to arrive in North America this year.
The Puma has a distinctive style that’s immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with the People’s Liberation Army of China. It draws its original design from the QBZ family of assault rifles, but has been refit and remarketed as a “riot gun.”
For the rest of us, that means a semiautomatic 12 gauge shotgun in bullpup configuration that feeds from a five-round box magazine. It features a flattop receiver that is ready for optics, and uses a short-stroke piston with an adjustable gas system. It shoots 2-3/4-inch shells from a 19-inch barrel, but is only 31 inches long overall. It tips the scales at eight pounds.
Looking at it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is another offering from Norinco, the Chinese arms company that brought the T97 back to Canada in 2014. But the Puma is actually a product of cooperation between the Canadian company Lever Arms, and the private Kuandian Shotgun Factory in Liaoning, China.
While it may have started life as a tactical solution for police, I hear “box magazine” and my mind immediately goes to 3-gun. I did get the chance to shoot several stages this summer using the Puma. I found it to be a ton of fun to shoot, but not quite ready for full competitive use.
Although the Puma uses a short-stroke piston, the charging handle assembly is attached to the bolt carrier group. This means there is quite a lot of mass there. This makes the Puma a bouncy gun to shoot, even with light target loads. There is more muzzle flip there than you’d expect from a conventional Benelli or Remington Versa Max.
I quite liked the ergonomics of the grip. The front hand grip is essentially an angled fore grip built right into the stock, and being a bullpup it balances well in my hands. But some of the mechanical manipulations aren’t quite what you’d expect. The safety is at the very rear on the left-hand side, right underneath your cheek if you’re in shooting position. It’s a 90-degree rotation from safe to fire, but if you’re moving fast you can actually rotate the safety an additional 90 degrees in either direction, which makes things confusing.
Two serious issues gave me pause.
Problem 1: It wouldn’t always cycle target loads. I was assured it was on the correct gas setting, but at least once a stage it would fail to pickup the next round and after a click with no bang, I’d have to rack the action manually.
Problem 2: It wouldn’t always knock down steel. The Puma doesn’t have thread-in chokes, and it’s just a fixed cylinder bore. There were several times where I could see shot splashing off the steel targets, but not putting them down.
Solution: To add more oomph and improve reliability, I’d be shooting heavier loads through this gun for any and all 3-gun stages. This means #4 or #6 shot at least. In theory you could have a smith remove the flash hider and thread the barrel for Remington chokes. This isn’t a bad idea either, but definitely means more money!
Alternately, some industrious Canadians have set out to build improved parts. A prototype of an improved gas valve showed promising results with light target loads—but it’s not quite ready yet. Even though there are solutions, it’s still an issue. If you buy the gun off the shelf expecting 100 percent functionality, you’ll likely experience some frustration.
The same thing applies to the magazine release. The LA K12 Puma sports an ambidextrous magazine release, with an AR-15-sized button on the right side of the gun, and a lever about the size of your pinky nail on the left side of the gun. They’re stiff, and the magazines are tight in the well. It’s not a fast gun to reload, but it could be made faster. Lots of owners are tinkering with enlarged magazine releases in order to make the gun more competitive.
It does have a last round bolt-hold-open that sits behind the magazine well. It engaged reliably, but is a bit stiff to release. A short clip of me reloading the Puma (and showing the relatively stiff controls) can be seen below.
There are two distinct reload methods for a shooter to choose when using a bullpup like the Puma: a conventional weak-hand reload or the “PLA reload.”
In a conventional reload, your firing hand stays on the pistol grip, while your weak hand removes the empty mag, retrieves a fresh magazine from the weak side of your body, inserts it, and operates the release. It’s how most shooters reload their Tavors, AUGs, and other bullpups. But when the PLA train, they use a different method.
In a PLA reload, your weak hand stays on the fore-grip of the rifle, and your shooting hand removes the spent magazine, retrieves a magazine from the strong side of your body, inserts the magazine, and releases the bolt. This breaks the rule of “fire control at all times” but can make for a smoother reload when you have small, stiff controls like on the Puma.
Overall I think the Puma is an exceptionally unique design for a sporting shotgun, and shows a lot of promise. However, I’d argue that it’s not quite ready for serious competitive use yet. That’s not stopping Canadian shooters from buying them up, though—an 899 CAD price tag (about 670 USD) puts them well below most conventional semiautomatic shotguns.
Fortunately this is only the first generation of the shotgun. It took two years for Lever Arms to get something they liked, but they’ve also been very public in saying that the Puma will evolve with time. Hopefully a second-generation model will address some of the issues and make it an excellent out-of-the-box 3-gun solution.
DDI Puma Bullpup Shotgun LA-K12
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DDI Puma 12 Bullpup Shotgun LA-K12
DDI LA-K12 Puma Shotgun. The DDI LA-K12 Puma is a Bullpup shotgun that has been in development for over 10 years and is chambered in 12 Gauge 2 ¾ inch. It is very similar to the QBZ95 Military Rifle that is used by the Chinese Armed Forces . The trunnion, bolt and bolt carrier are all Hammer Forged to insure strength and long service life .The Puma has 2 gas settings on the removable gas plug to allow adjustment for the load you would be shooting . A 19 inch Chrome Lined barrel with Saiga 12 style threads will allow you to add the muzzle brake of your choice. The charging handle, bolt release and magazine release are all Ambidextrous so you lefty’s can customize the gun for your comfort or make it a Tactical left side charger !! The Puma comes with two steel 5 round steel magazines and an owner’s manual. Extra magazines and side rails will be available in the future.
Overall Length: 29 3/4
Weight: 7.8 lbs
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