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The best CZ 75 pistols of 2026 come from a family that has been in production for more than five decades. The original CZ 75 combined double-stack capacity, a double-action/single-action trigger, and a slide that rides inside the frame rails, and that low-slung design made it one of the most copied handguns in the world. [...]

Palmetto State Armory built its name on one idea: put a working rifle in more hands for less money. That still holds, but PSA has grown past budget AR-15s. Today the lineup runs from piston carbines to 5.7 pistols to Russian pattern AKs, and the quality gap between the good stuff and the rest of [...]

The best CZ rifles come from a Czech factory that has built Mauser-style bolt actions, rimfires, and military rifles for decades. Today CZ sells the 600 series of centerfire bolt guns, the 457 rimfire family, the Bren 2 piston rifle, and the Scorpion pistol-caliber carbine, and the used market is full of 527, 550, and [...]

From samurai roots to the gallows, this is Hideki Tojo’s fanatic rise, failed suicide with an 8mm Nambu, and the wild “Remember Pearl Harbor” denture secret that rode with him to trial.

Picking the best home defense handgun in 2026 is not about the smallest micro you can hide under yoga pants. It is about a nightstand gun you can actually shoot under stress: a full grip, enough rounds, a light rail, and a trigger you have already dry-fired until it is boring. The hallway is not [...]

The best hunting bipod of 2026 is one you forget you are carrying until the moment you need it. Then it has to deploy fast, level the rifle on a sidehill, and hold steady while your heart is pounding and the animal is about to step into the timber. A bipod that weighs a pound [...]

“Once you get to the part where there’s this much debt… there’s really no way out of it other than they’re going to default.”

The 10mm Auto refuses to die no matter how many times the FBI, the gun press, and your buddy at the range try to bury it. In 2026 it is more popular than ever, and for a blunt reason: near .357 Magnum power with semi-auto capacity when the thing you worry about weighs 400 pounds [...]

The Altor 9mm is crude, awkward, and about as far from a refined carry gun as you can get. That’s exactly why this odd little single-shot pistol makes such a provocative modern echo of the FP45 Liberator, and why its implications reach way beyond the range.