>>14166
My best guess is that there are hobbyists who think it looks like a prop from Firefly, and therefore it's neat. And, you know, it kind of DOES look like a prop from Firefly.
In a marketplace oversaturated, overloaded, and completely clogged with polymer framed striker-fired 9mm service pistols and flattop AR15 derivatives with rails on every possible surface, do not discount the desire for novelty. Look at how many people whip out their wallets to buy Mateba revolvers, which are, objectively, a terrible design, which break their internals constantly and spray white-hot high-pressure propellant gasses out of a barrel-cylinder gap that's a fraction of an inch from the user's index finger. Look at Kel-Tec products and how much in demand they are. They always sell well above MSRP. It may have a mechanism made out of recycled beer cans put inside an old plastic super-soaker and screwed together with twenty allen screws, but at least it's not another black plastic Glawk clone, amirite? Chinese exposed-hammer coach guns made out of waste material from a nail factory bolted to a butter-soft chu wood stock, potmetal Single Action Army lookalikes in .22 LR, beat-all-to-shit old police revolvers. Have you priced AKs lately? People can't get enough of them. Because at least it's not black plastic with a STANAG magazine. At least it's not yet another striker fired 9mm with a plastic frame and stamped sheet metal internals.
I am not the least bit surprised that the demand for objectively stupid, objectively pointless "space cowboy" guns outstrips supply. Because at the end of the day, for most of us, this is a hobby. I too am guilty of going to gun stores and searching for anything that's new and different and fun.