Gun Reviews

The best AK-47 rifle of 2026 is not the cheapest one on the rack, and it is not always the one with the coolest furniture. It is the one built right where it counts: a properly headspaced barrel, a forged or machined trunnion, straight sights, and rivets that are actually tight. Get those things right [...]

The best Taurus handguns have shaken off the brand’s old reputation. Taurus still sells some of the cheapest reliable pistols on the market, but it now also builds an optics-ready duty gun that ran 1,000 rounds with two stoppages, a .22 competition pistol, a budget carry gun that put four shots in one hole, and [...]

Sig jumps into the 2011 game with the P211 GTO and it flat-out rips. We ran plates and a match to see if this ROMEOX-equipped 9mm really stays glued to target.

This budget-friendly 6.5 Creedmoor hunts light, cycles smoothly, and stacks tight groups. After Ruger fixed an early extraction hiccup, the rifle flat-out performed.

The Beretta 92 series absolutely dominated action movies in the late 80s and early 90s. It made appearances in Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Kuffs, and more than I care to list.

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 Taurus GX4 Strike Bravo feels like a compact 9mm built with a mission, not a marketing meeting. We ran it suppressed and compensated, and it stayed smooth, flat, and stubbornly reliable.

A faithful throwback with modern shootability, the Cimarron Model No. 3 American brings Old West speed reloads and shockingly tight groups to today’s range.

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 [...]

Bullpup weapons offer a different balance which places most of the weight towards the shooter’s core. This makes the weapons easier to control and easier to shoot with a single hand. 

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 [...]

Recently the Hi-Power has seen quite the revival. Maybe the industry’s hard time coming up with something new spurned it.

I carried the Echelon 4.0C for a year through desert dust, frozen peaks, and long range days. It stayed reliable, carried comfortably, and earned a real spot in my rotation.

AAAA maple glam with real teeth. In 6.5 Creedmoor, the X-Bolt 2 Medallion Maple stacked tight groups, ran smooth, and looked like a custom without the custom bill.

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 Adler AD500 is a no-nonsense semi auto .308 built to stack fast follow up shots without premium sticker shock. Six builds, hunt ready, and priced for real buyers.

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, [...]

Black Rain’s Freedom Fighter AK keeps the soul of the platform and bolts on the upgrades shooters actually want, from a milled receiver to a folding stock that still runs, plus factory suppressor readiness.

Smith & Wesson trims the fat and tunes what matters. Better sights, a cleaner trigger, and the same pocketable J-frame footprint make this a smart carry refresh.

The best military surplus rifles carry more than history on their stocks. They are battle proven designs built by nations that could not afford failure, and most of them still shoot well enough to embarrass a modern sporter at 100 yards. Surplus is also a moving target. Our Enfield writer declared the $200 Enfield over [...]

The best Bergara rifles prove that a barrel maker can build a whole rifle. Bergara started out making barrels in Spain, and that obsession with bores shows up on paper: our testers have shot a 0.36 MOA group with a Premier Divide, a 0.45 inch group with a B-14 Squared Crest and a five shot [...]

Fair warning: if you still think a 2011 is a $4,000 race toy for people who iron their range belts, you are about a decade late. Duty-grade Staccatos ride in SWAT holsters. Springfield will sell you one with an Aimpoint already mounted. Kimber and Bersa jumped in. Girsan is hanging 2011-style guns out there for [...]

The best SIG Sauer pistols run from the micro-compact that rewrote concealed carry to a hammer-fired duty classic, a factory 2011, and a rimfire trainer that feels like the real thing. SIG builds more handgun variants than almost anyone, which is great for choice and confusing for buyers. This guide sorts it out. Our writers [...]

Born from a special operations requirement, the Seekins Precision SIC is a true interchangeable caliber rifle that stays sub-MOA, shrugs off heat, and drives recoil straight back so you can spot your own hits.

FN rebooted the SCAR 16S 17S 20S for 2026 with a hydraulic buffer, extended receiver, and true suppressor focus. We shot them side by side and the improvement is instant.

The AMG 1-10×24 is Vortex’s compact fistfight of an LPVO that gives you rail space back, adds dual-zero turrets, and runs fast without bloating your carbine.

The best 9mm revolvers of 2026 solve a problem revolver shooters have complained about for decades: ammo cost. Our writer found 9mm for about 18 cents a round when he shopped around, compared with roughly 50 cents for .38 Special, at the time of his comparison. That is the whole pitch. You get a wheelgun’s [...]