The Firearm Blog has posted this great picture of the Taurus CT carbine from LAAD ’11 Expo in Brazil. This model looks vastly different from the one I saw at Shot 2011 and will be imported into the US. The model seen at Shot this year had a rather unattractive thumbhole stock and lacked the continuous forearm quad rail. Noticeable on the non imported model is the Scar like stock and AR style pistol grip. The once boring imported rifle suddenly has a more meaningful appearance and might just be worthy of a few more gun safes than before. Let us hope that Taurus will make these accessories available on the consumer market, so those looking for a pistol caliber home defense rifle can have a more useful rifle.

Here is a look at the US version: