SHOT Show Archives

Cabot Guns has created a new addition to their 1911 lineup: The Rebellion. It’s the company’s first aluminum-framed pistol. Cosmetically, it has some new features, but it also has significant design improvements never-before-seen on a 1911 pistol.

Christensen Arms has made a business of lightweight firearms; weighing in at a mere 5.1 pounds, the new Ranger 22 is certainly not the exception. The Ranger takes advantage of all the technologies Christensen has perfected to make a very unique full-sized rimfire rifle.

Springfield has brought several compact self-defense purposed weapons to SHOT 2020. Among them, the Saint Edge PDW is maybe the most balanced personal defense weapon (PDW) among size, firepower and deployment speed. This 5.5″ barreled, 5.56 NATO chambered AR15 is a sweet little package.

Lockdown’s brand-new Vault Doors are user-installable and can turn virtually any room into a vault. Like many of Lockdown’s products, the Vault also monitors the room for temperature, humidity, and tampering, and connects to user’s phones via their Logic app.

The Matrix is extremely modular; available with 3 different thumb rests that vary from 20-45 degrees, 4 different sized trigger finger supports and 6 different grips that come in vertical or swept angles. The options that you can choose come out to over 100 different configurations.

If you are looking for a new magnifier for the red dot on your carbine, EOTech probably has the one for you. This year they launched three New Magnifiers.

The CAOS allows users to mount a wide variety of optics to an FN Five-seveN MK2 without permanently modifying the handgun or losing the use of the rear sight. We caught up with company founder and president Dorin Adika at SHOT Show 2020 to check out his new product for ourselves.

Utah-based Culper Precision uses a unique method to replace 50 percent of a factory Glock 19 slide with carbon fiber, which reduces the overall weight of the firearm by about 30 percent. We caught up with the company’s founder and president, Brandon Scott, at SHOT Show 2020 to check out the Atomic 6 for ourselves.

At the 2020 SHOT Show shotgun authorities Mossberg and Jerry Miculek were proud to exhibit the new 940 JM Pro semi-auto for competition.

The Owyhee Takedown Bolt Action .22 LR Rifle will be available for purchase in Q1 with an MSRP of $1,065 and a street price of around $879.

A good idea doesn’t come to market just because it’s good. It takes research and development and lots of tenacity to get it into consumers’ hands. SIG’s new P320 XFIVE Legion pistol is a good example of this. True Pearce sat down with Phil Strader, SIG’s pistol product manager, to discuss how its improvements will benefit all kinds of shooters.

Welcome to the new Staccato 2011, for years we knew this company as STI Firearms, now, breaking with the old name and changing the product line up, it’s out with the old and in with the new.

A striker-fired autoloader, FN’s 509 Compact MRD no doubt packs a full-size punch in a compact package.

SIG has been going crazy with new releases, lately, and one of the most anticipated new pistols is the USA-made P210. Based on the original P210, it’s downsized for carrying. True Pearce sat down with a product manager during SIG’s range day at SHOT Show 2020.

Offered in a pile of calibers that include 243 WIN, 7mm-08 REM, 308 WIN, 270 WSM, 300 WSM, and the ever-popular 6.5 Creedmoor, Winchester’s Renegade Long Range SR is creating a buzz.

Sometimes it is about the small things. While some manufacturers released new flashy guns at SHOT Show 2020, Fix-It-Sticks came out with a small but meaningful upgrade to their already fantastic product line.

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks is offering a new competition-style precision rifle stock called the Z1. This new stock is everything that you would expect from a McMillan stock, having aluminum pillars, neat color options and adjustable features to help fit the stock to the individual. That said, the Z1 is the first in McMillan’s new line of universal stocks.

The LUPO is designed to be great, starting from the bottom up. It is a modular chassis style hunting rifle. It is modular because it contains aspects of a typical hunting stock as well as a 7075 T6 Aluminum chassis that supports the action; and I assume that in the future, you can customize this configuration with other features that are soon to be released.

On the final day of SHOT Show 2020, three-gun competitor Ryan Muller joined Mark Oliva, NSSF’s Director of Public Affairs, to commend the versatility, reliability and durability of the modern sporting rifle (MSR), the most popular-selling centerfire rifle. Muller described his growing interest in hunting predators, like coyotes, and shooting prairie dogs as the main reason why [...]

Barrett Firearms, showed up in force at the 2020 SHOT show with the MK22 MRAD Sniper System on the firing line for Industry Day at the Range. The MRAD sniper system, is a 3-barrel set, somewhat like a sporting clays shotgun, except these barrels are in 7.62, 300 Noma Magnum and 338 Norma Magnum.

New for 2020, KelTec has released yet another innovative and cool firearm: the Sub 2000 CQB (Carbine Quiet Barrel). This new beauty from KelTec is an integrally suppressed PCC carbine. It will be available in 9mm and 40 S&W.

The SAR21 fires 5.56x45mm NATO from a closed bolt design and is charged with a non-reciprocating charging handle. Max firing rate ranges from 450-650 RPM while full-auto and semi-auto firing modes are selectable with the safety. Another bonus to the design is how it uses regular AR-style magazines that can be bought nearly anywhere.

The Fastrax PAC holds a variety of pistols in an internal holster. To access the pistol, you simply rip the zippered pouch open and pull the activation cord with your non-dominant hand. This action stands the pistol up in the Fastrax PAC, allowing you to draw vertically, free of obstruction, to address the threat.

Canik’s TP9 Elite SC is a feature-rich subcompact 9mm pistol and it comes with a full package of accessories, including an optics option.

The 27 Nosler cartridge can push a 150g bullet 400 feet-per-second (fps) faster than a 270 Win and 300fps faster than the 270 WSM at the muzzle.

The newest version of CMMG’s 5.7 uses a standard mil-spec AR lower receiver. Rather than shrinking dimensions and using a pistol sized magazine, CMMG engineered a larger magazine roughly the same dimensions as a standard capacity 30-round AR magazine.

ATN announced at SHOT Show 2020 a new line of low-cost thermal clip-ons and monoculars along with a re-vamped version of their popular day/night optic. We stopped by their booth to peer through their new products for ourselves, and we gotta say—we were impressed.

CZ-USA has expanded their booth at SHOT Show 2020 and their offerings for the year. In addition to the dream pistol, there’s the Bren 2 Carbine and the 457 Chassis rifle.

Two incredibly simple tools that make short work of the more frustrating parts of assembling an AR-15. The Gas Block Genie can be found for $14.99 and the Roll Pin Wizard for $17.99