Best of 2025 – Handguns

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Picking the best concealed carry handguns in 2025 is a serious business. The market is stacked with compact 9mm rockets, micro 9mm pocket blasters, and full featured striker-fired rigs that do not quit. Your EDC should be reliable, shootable, and simple under stress. I have carried a gun for real, [...]

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes If you carry a handgun, hunt, defend the homestead, or just live at the range, 2025 is a very good year to be a 9mm shooter. The market is stacked with reliable, optics-ready pistols that actually run. I have zero patience for gear that fails when the buzzer or the [...]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes If you carry every day, 2025 is your lucky year. Micro-compact 9mm pistols have matured from hot new idea to proven fighting tools, and the latest crop is running higher capacity, better triggers, cleaner optics cuts, and real-world reliability. I have lived with these guns on the belt, in the [...]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes It is 2025, and the .45 ACP refuses to fade away. Good. The big-bore classic still solves problems with authority, whether you carry daily, keep a nightstand pistol, or hunt where autoloaders are legal. The trick today is sorting modern options by mission. Polymer duty guns bring capacity and optics. [...]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes In 2025, the .380 ACP pistol is still the sweet spot for shooters who want deep concealment, controllable recoil, and enough punch to matter. Is it the only answer for concealed carry or a nightstand? No. But if you want a lightweight gun you will actually carry all day, or [...]