1. Kel-Tec does not make any Kel-Tec .38 semi-automatic handguns. They *do* make .380 ACP handguns, but there’s a big difference between .38 Special and .380 ACP. The journalist didn’t make it.
2. The journalist was probably told that the man being persecuted by MD police had a CCW and had a Kel-Tec. He then *assumed* the MD cops were looking specifically for that Kel-Tec when there’s no way for those officers to know what weapon he carries - Florida does not register guns nor are their CCW records linked to any specific firearm. The latter is an NYC specific thing.
Your speculative abilities are amazing.
There are guns that only exist in the minds of reporters. E.G., Automatic 50 MM Revolvers, The Semi-Automatic Palm-Sized Kel-Tec .38, Rifles used in duck hunting, etc. etc.
Now Kel-Tec is very much on the Leftist Weapon Shiite List. That's because a 'Deadly Kel-tec Automatic Assault Pistol' was used to wantonly kill Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL, who, as you know, was delivering meals on wheels to elderly shut-ins after Bible Study. Tragic. Could have been a son of Obama.
.38 can also be .38 ACP one of the early cartridges for “full size” automatics
from wiki
The .38 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) also known as the .38 Auto was introduced at the turn of the 20th century for the Browning designed Colt M1900. The cartridge headspaces on the rim.[2] It had first been used in Colt’s Model 1897 prototype, which he did not produce. The metric designation for the round is 9×23mmSR (SR—Semi Rimmed) (not to be confused with the modern 9×23mm Winchester or the .380 ACP).
It also works in Spanish Astra 400’s
but to my knowledge keltek only makes a .380 / 9Kurz / 9x17 or 9x19/9Nato guns not a .38 ACP.. but we should not expect the 4th estate to do more than say 30 seconds of research on such things.