Taurus RPC: Roller-Delayed MP5K-Style PDW at NRAAM 2026
Taurus RPC: Roller-Delayed MP5K-Style PDW at NRAAM 2026. Taurus enters the PDW market with the RPC — a roller-delayed 9mm large-format pistol pitched as an MP5K for the people, with street prices near $700. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/guns_com#person", "name": "Guns.com", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/guns_com", "description": "Guns.com is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/bf709d2c-5917-4bcf-9b86-740396d311c9.png" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/taurus-rpc-nraam-2026#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/taurus-rpc-nraam-2026" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/taurus-rpc-nraam-2026", "headline": "Taurus RPC: Roller-Delayed MP5K-Style PDW at NRAAM 2026", "name": "Taurus RPC: Roller-Delayed MP5K-Style PDW at NRAAM 2026", "description": "Taurus enters the PDW market with the RPC — a roller-delayed 9mm large-format pistol pitched as an MP5K for the people, with street prices near $700.", "articleSection": "Firearms", "articleBody": "Taurus just dropped its first entry into the large-format pistol market, and it's not another direct-blowback PCC clone. The Taurus RPC — revealed at NRAAM 2026 in Houston — is a roller-delayed 9mm PDW with a 4.5-inch barrel, 32-round magazines, and a street price projected around $700. That's MP5K-pattern engineering at a price point the category has never seen. In a booth walkthrough with Guns.com at NRAAM 2026, Caleb from Taurus framed the RPC in one line that tells you exactly where it's aimed: \"This is an MP5k for the people.\" Alongside the RPC launch, Taurus also showed off the updated GX2 Toro — the same subcompact carry gun they released last cycle, now factory-cut for Shield RMSC-footprint optics and still running a $299 MSRP. Both guns point to the same strategy: take systems that usually live in premium price brackets, build them affordably, and ship what customers actually asked for. Here's everything we learned at the booth. Key Takeaways The Taurus RPC is a roller-delayed 9mm large-format pistol with a 4.5-inch barrel and 32-round magazines — MP5K-pattern operation at a projected $700 street price. MSRP is $940 without brace or $1,099 with the Strike Industries brace; Caleb from Taurus confirmed actual retail will land well below those numbers. The roller-delayed system uses a lighter bolt than direct-blowback PCCs, cutting recoil and shrinking the overall package — and ships with interchangeable locking tips for suppressed vs. unsuppressed u…