Wraithworks debuted at SHOT Show this year, both the new company and their first product, the WARSCORP9. This AR-style 9mm pistol accepts CZ Scorpion EVO magazines and employs a side-charging upper receiver with flip-out charging handle.

Using Scorpion EVO magazines is very appealing. They look better in a PCC-type gun than rearward-swept GLOCK mags do, they’re very reliable, and they’re extremely affordable. Not only from CZ-USA but from Magpul and Manticore Arms as well, in capacities from 10 rounds up to 35. There are even 50-round drums available from a couple companies.

The WARSCORP9 maintains the CZ Scorpion EVO-style paddle magazine release, which I love and which is inherently ambidextrous, but also adds a button-style magazine release on both sides of the gun in the general area of where you’d expect it to be on an AR.

The bolt catch and safety are also ambi.

Non-reciprocating charging handle folded in. Nice and sleek — out of the way.

And flipped out, ready for use.

In its first iteration, the WARSCORP9 is sold in pistol form with an SB Tactical SBA3 brace as standard.

In what has become a fairly crowded 9mm PCC / Pistol market, the Wraithworks WARSCORP9 stands out. For a little bit more info, here’s Wraithworks’ press release:

Designed and manufactured by Wraithworks, the new WARSCORP9 is truly MAGnificent and is the first USA made AR-15 to feed from Scorpion EVO 9mm magazines!

Starting from the ground up the WARSCORP9 features a new machined billet upper receiver, machined billet lower receiver, and extruded aluminum 7” M-LOK forend that are compatible with standard AR-15 barrels, trigger groups, stocks and stock components, and slightly modified bolt carriers. A slight modification to the bolt carrier is made to allow for a non-reciprocating left side mounted charging handle that is folded out for use and automatically folds back into the stowed-away position when released.

Controls are fully ambidextrous including ambi safety, ambi bolt catch levers, and even ambi magazine buttons and a paddle release. The paddle will release the magazine and pressing the magazine button on either side of the lower receiver will also activate the paddle release and release the magazine.

Controls will be extremely familiar to anyone who has used an AR-15, and all the controls are designed to be reached and operated by the pistol grip hand thus leaving the offhand free at all times to grip theforend, perform magazine changes, or do other tasks.

A 1:10 twist 8.5” Nitride coated 9mm barrel with 1/2×28 threads is complemented by a Wraithworks custom 9mm muzzle device. The operating system is rounded out with a nitride coated bolt carrier group and a buffer system and tube mounting an SB Tactical SBA3 arm brace. The Wraithworks

WARSCORP9 weighs in at 5 pounds 8 ounces unloaded and has an overall length of 24 inches with armbrace collapsed and 26.5 inches with the arm brace fully deployed. Aluminum components are MilSpec type III hardcoat anodized and the WARSCORP9 is 100% designed, manufactured, and assembled in the USA.

Details and updates on the WARSCORP9 and on Wraithworks can be found at www.wraithworks.com

Wraithworks says it’s a little too early to have the MSRP locked down exactly, but their goal is $1,000 or less.

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43 COMMENTS

  1. I like this one more then some of the others. But PCC’s are definitely a popular item these days because literally everyone is doing one. I think I’ve seen more new PCCs online between here and TFB then I ever thought I would. I think I’ll join in on the trend and get one eventually, but I’ll probably go with an MP5 variant though.

  2. 9s are nice for money saving fun but I want a 10mm so I can get into rifle velocities for self-defense. Ask all these PCC makers when they’re coming out with a reasonably priced 10mm version. Thank you!

    • I am a big fan of 10mm in general, and share your interest in 10mm PCC.

      However, you aren’t getting anywhere near rifle velocities with 10mm.

      • Underwood Ammo – 100gr Extreme Defender at 1825 fps out of a pistol. I would imagine at least 200fps more out of a 16 inch barrel. That is rifle velocity. A PCC in 10mm would be a fun gun. What would be really nice is a 6-8 inch barreled pistol with a folding brace. Compact yet powerful and useful.

      • 40 Sw 65grain Copper hollow point chrono’d at 2360 in my Hi-Point 4095 Carbine. Worked well at 100 yards. Haven’t checked it at longer ranges yet. With a Vortex Strike Eagle scope zeroed at 24/55 yards for light 40s (180gr/800fps) the Laser loads were about 6″ high at 100.

    • If you want ‘rifle velocity’ then you want a 5.56, .300AAC, etc. You’re not getting near it with 10mm. In fact, in a long barrel you can get 9mm loads that approach the same velocity as 10mm, albeit with lower mass (obviously).

      10mm is a more powerful pistol round, not a weak rifle round.

    • Money saving? No way!

      When I got my PCC Carbine I was routinely blowing through a case of ammo on a weekend with it!

      They are super fun to shoot you just can’t stop.

      🙂

        • spot on. couple hondo fer metal and modularity is good. but, folder.
          eventual 10mm swap. 9mm for funzies; 10 for coffee table.

        • For $479, you can get a glock mag based lower and an upper from Palmetto State Armory. Its tough to beat that for the money. Throw in a RRA 2 stage match trigger and you have a nice gun with a goo dtrigger for $560.

    • I dont like having a lot of different parts for a lot of different guns in a lot of different boxes. This system has parts compatibility and ergos with AR based guns The little bit of extra money spent would make it worth it to me. That being said I use Colt mags which use 95% of standard AR parts in 9mm to include the lower so I (me personally) wouldn’t go the Skorpion mag route.

  5. At “$1000 or less”, guess I’ll be sticking with my Ruger PC Carbine.

    Would like to see Ruger come out with a mag well for the CZ mags tho, including drums.

    • Is it for the curved higher capacity mags? Glock mag well length dictates straight mags. But the MP5/skorpion evo3 curved mags do have an cool old school asthetic.

      • Exactly… glock’s flawed design and then subsequent popularity has thrown a monkey wrench into modularity especially as it pertains to grip angles and magazines.

    • Now that magpul is making a back packer stock for the Ruger pcc it’s more attractive to me. PSA is also making a G19 clone for $300ish…. Im going to go poor this year if I give into all this temptation!!!

        • I think I was very clear. But Rugers current 9mm takedown rifle, has a newly released by magpul stock. It is the backpacker. Very similar to the 10/22 takedown version. Were the fore-end clips into the but stock.

        • SR9C was my favorite carry gun, except that little safety…wish it had nothing at all or something more like the lc9.

  6. That is a slick looking unit. I’d love to have a 9mm carbine, but there are so many other things competing for the money…heck, I don’t even own a shotgun yet.

  8. They look better in a PCC-type gun than rearward-swept GLOCK mags do

    And, dahling, ees better to look good than to feel good. An I look mahvelous!”

  9. That charging handle looks a little too smooth and out of the way when folded. I’m sure it works fine under normal circumstances, but what about gloves, moisture, low light, stress…

    • I used to laugh at comments like this. Then I started shooting in the winter with real gloves. The controls on the AK now make a ton of sense.

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