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At SHOT Show 2026, Bersa showed up with a simple message: keep the guns slim, add capacity, and don’t blow the budget.

At SHOT Show 2026, Armasight didn’t roll out a mild refresh. They tore the guts out of their thermal lineup and rebuilt it from the inside out.

This stabilized monocular was the best thing I saw at SHOT this year.

L3Harris introduces the NOVA night vision goggle with a repair-focused design and unfilmed Gen 3 tubes aimed at large-scale fielding.

Se7en Plus positions its knives as straightforward tools for people who actually use them outdoors.

Franchi includes a proprietary flip‑up iron sight system that’s far more useful than typical afterthought sights.

The standout is the X Model .22, which borrows heavily from Henry’s centerfire X Model playbook and applies it to rimfire for the first time.

This is a 12-gauge pump gun built around one idea: shrink it down without turning it into a gimmick.

The Sarsilmaz 7/24 is a new steel‑framed, hammer‑fired 9mm pistol introduced as part of Sarsilmaz’s expansion under its global brand name.