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Every few years somebody on the internet declares the .45 ACP dead. Then another batch of new .45s ships, sells out, and shows up at the range carried by people who never got the memo. The best .45 ACP pistols of 2026 are proof that John Browning’s fat, slow, 230-grain answer to hard problems is [...]

The best Kel-Tec guns are some of the strangest and most useful firearms you can buy. The Florida company, now styled KelTec, builds folding carbines, bullpup rifles and shotguns, high capacity rimfire pistols, a 50-round 5.7 that folds in half, and one of the lightest pocket pistols ever made. Few brands take more design risks, [...]

The best Staccato pistols of 2026 are not the same guns that made the brand famous. Staccato has moved most of its lineup to the HD platform, which drops the grip safety, adds fully ambidextrous controls, mounts optics directly to the slide, and, most important for a lot of buyers, runs Glock-pattern magazines. At the [...]

The best survival rifles of 2026 are not the biggest or the most powerful guns in the safe. They are the ones you actually bring along: light, compact, simple, and able to feed you or protect you after something goes wrong. That idea goes back to World War II aircrew survival guns, and our writers [...]

The main holster types are inside the waistband (IWB), appendix inside the waistband (AIWB), outside the waistband (OWB), pocket, ankle, shoulder, chest and off-body holsters. For most people who carry concealed every day, an IWB holster worn at appendix or strong-side hip is the best starting point, and OWB is the most comfortable and fastest [...]

The best Benelli guns include some of the most trusted shotguns ever built, from the M4 that the Marines picked as a joint service shotgun to the Super Black Eagle that waterfowlers have carried into the marsh for decades. Benelli now builds a bolt action rifle too, the Lupo, and it has become one of [...]

The .45-70 is older than the Model T, and it still flattens anything in North America inside 200 yards. The best .45-70 rifles take a cartridge the U.S. Army adopted in 1873 and put it in handy, modern rifles. The .45-70 Government throws big, heavy bullets, typically 300 to 405 grains and up to 430 [...]

The best Beretta pistols go well beyond the 92. The world’s oldest gun maker also builds modern striker-fired APX pistols, the PX4 Storm, a revived Cheetah in .380, and tip-up pocket guns in .22 LR and .32 ACP. Some are bargains, some are classics, and a few are better left to collectors. We will tell [...]

The best over under shotguns of 2026 do one thing better than any pump or semi-auto ever built: they give you two instant shots with two different chokes, from a gun you can break open and prove empty at a glance. That is why the stack-barrel double owns the sporting clays course, the trap line, [...]