Gun Reviews

The Savage 110 Core Tactical pairs a thoroughly modernized Model 110 with the low-recoil reach of 22 ARC. Ours was shooting around three-quarter MOA with factory ammunition almost immediately, then making repeatable hits all the way to 1,024 yards.

The S&W Spec Series VI M&P 9 M2.0 Metal Compact pairs a ported barrel, Aimpoint ACRO P-2, metal frame, and roughly $985 in included accessories with genuinely fast, controllable performance. After several weeks of shooting and carrying it, the $1,899 package makes a stronger case for itself than the sticker price suggests.

The G43 was the single-stack 9mm Glock shooters begged for, but the G43X and G48 changed the equation with larger grips, optics-ready variants, and dramatically more capacity. In 2026, the smallest Glock is no longer automatically the best Slimline Glock.

The Major Kong Industries MisterSeven gives a non-railed 1911 something classic pistols were never built with: a solid mounting point for a modern weapon light. Better yet, it does it without permanently modifying the pistol.

The best scout rifles follow a simple idea from Jeff Cooper: one light, short, handy bolt action rifle that can do almost anything a lone rifleman needs. Cooper’s recipe called for a .308, a barrel of 19 inches or less, an overall length of 39 inches or less, a forward mounted low power scope, reserve [...]

The Uberti 1873 Sporting Rifle brings the Gun That Won the West back to life with a slick toggle-link action, gorgeous Old West looks, mild .44-40 recoil, and a best five-shot group of 0.97 inches at 25 yards. This old-time rifle still has some game.

Henry’s first revolver combines .357 Magnum authority, heirloom-grade details, and accuracy that borders on showing off. The Big Boy does not merely wear the Henry name. It earns it.

The SIG P226 TacOps earned its reputation the hard way, with training, hard use, and more than 1,000 rounds without a failure in this original test. More than a decade later, Legion, SAO, E2-style grips, optic-ready models, X-Fives, and the P320 have changed the shopping landscape, but not the basic question: Is the old-school hammer-fired P226 still worth the money?

The American shotgun market is huge, but it’s not necessarily ruled by American shotguns anymore.

Glock may still be the 800-pound polymer gorilla, but bans, lawsuits, and years of slow evolution have shooters looking hard at what else is out there. From Canik to Walther, these striker fired Glock alternatives are not just second choices, they are serious contenders.

The 6.5 Creedmoor started life in 2008 as a match cartridge and turned into the most popular all-around rifle round in America. It shoots flat, it bucks wind better than a .308 with less recoil, and long, high-BC bullets carry plenty of energy for deer. Our CMMG reviewer pointed out that it is still supersonic [...]

Glock 43 vs SIG P365 comes down to capacity. The two guns are close to the same size: the original single-stack Glock 43 is a hair shorter in height, the P365 is shorter in length, and both are about an inch wide. But the P365 carries 10+1 flush and the G43 carries 6+1. In our [...]

The Seekins Element Hunter M3 in 7 PRC weighs just 6 lbs, folds down for mountain travel, and printed a .264 MOA group with factory ammunition. After long-range steel, a 680-yard coyote, and plenty of miles in the mountains, this rifle has become exactly what I hoped an ultralight hunting rifle could be.

The Browning X-Bolt family has grown from an excellent hunting rifle into a sprawling X-Bolt 2 lineup covering lightweight mountain guns, long-range rigs, carbon-fiber builds, and almost everything between.

After more than 1,300 rounds and 12 months of regular carry, the Kimber CDS9 has become my go-to EDC. It is accurate, distinctive, and flawless for me unsuppressed, although suppressor testing exposed one weakness worth knowing about.

The $529 Glenfield Model A looks every inch like a budget hunting rifle, but our 6.5 Creedmoor test gun punched out .78-.92 inch groups with its favorite ammunition and went 120 for 120. Ruger’s revived Glenfield name may be cheap where it can be, but this rifle puts the important money in the right places.

The FN SCAR 15P crams battle-proven SCAR DNA into a 7.5-inch 5.56 package that is compact, brutally loud, impressively reliable, and capable of groups just over 1 MOA with the right ammunition. After running it hard, suppressed, hot, and dirty, I liked it enough to buy it.

When police upgrade their firearms, they sell off their old-duty weapons. They let them go quite cheaply, and that’s a benefit to us!

Every ounce you cut from a rifle is an ounce you do not carry up the mountain, and around mile six that math gets personal. One of our writers was told before a two-day elk-country hike to cut as much weight as he could. He showed up with a Weatherby Backcountry 2.0 Carbon that weighed [...]

The best Ruger revolvers are known for being nearly indestructible. Ruger builds double action carry guns like the LCR, SP101 and GP100, and single actions like the Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk, Vaquero and Wrangler, so there is a Ruger wheel gun for almost every job. Our reviewers at GunsAmerica Digest have shot these revolvers on the [...]

These handguns aren’t just “lefty-friendly”; they’re designed to let you run the gun efficiently, confidently, and without compromise.

The best Weatherby rifles have always been about one thing: putting a bullet where you want it, fast and flat, from a rifle that can take a beating in the backcountry. Roy Weatherby built his name on screaming magnum cartridges, but the modern lineup runs from a Vanguard that lists at $869 MSRP in 2026 [...]

The H&K VP9B backs German engineering with exceptional ergonomics, an optics-ready slide, and a factory trigger that only gets better as the rounds pile up. I started as a skeptic and ended up questioning my usual plastic fantastic.

The best Henry rifles cover more ground than most people realize. Henry Repeating Arms built its name on rimfire lever guns, but today the lineup runs from brass framed .45-70 bear guns and a faithful copy of the 1860 Henry to an AR magazine fed lever gun, a 9mm semi auto carbine, a .410 lever [...]

The best big bore handguns throw heavy bullets hard enough to hunt deer, hogs, and even bears. Chamberings like .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, .460 S&W, and .50 AE turn a handgun into a serious hunting tool or a last-ditch defense gun in big country. We have hunted and shot them. One of our writers dropped [...]

The Springfield Prodigy 3.5 AOS packs 18 rounds into a compact double-stack 1911 built for concealed carry, then backs it up with approximately 500 rounds of malfunction-free testing and a best 15-yard group of just 0.61 inches.

The best Colt revolvers are the modern Snake guns. Colt brought the Cobra back in 2017 and the Python in 2020, then added the King Cobra, the Anaconda, a 10-shot King Cobra in .22 LR, and the Viper. Our writers say the new guns rely on modern machining instead of heavy hand fitting, and the [...]

It seems the armed community is rediscovering the advantages of the small revolver over the pocket auto!

The Benelli M2-G1 brings a new Rear Piston Operated gas system to a hard-use tactical shotgun. I fed it cheap birdshot, rusty water-damaged shells, suppressed strings, and rapid fire, and several hundred rounds later it still had not malfunctioned.