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Making a gun cheaper doesn’t always add up to making a cheap gun. That is the point of the new Kahr CM9. Modeled after their extremely popular but pricey PM-9, the $569 MSRP clone CM9 has exactly the same external specifications, the same magazine capacity and is the same weight as it’s more expensive older brother.

This gun is how Kahr answers the question, how do you follow up a home run? The answer is “with another home run,” and they really have no choice. Coming out of SHOT 2011, where nearly every handgun company announced a new 6+1 tiny 9mm, the PM-9 now has much more competition in the marketplace where it had previously ruled the kingdom. The CM9 cuts corners only where the engineers at Kahr felt they could safely be cut, but is more competitive on price with the new entrants into the field in this size range. The CM9 still has the 7 patented features found in all of these small Kahrs, and it shoots exactly like the PM-9, recoiling lower in the hand than most guns this size, which drastically reduces felt recoil and muzzle flip. The CM9 differs from the PM-9 in 5 different ways.

ArmaLite Inc. https://www.armalite.com/ If something ain’t broke there is a strong argument to not fix it. Fortunately for .50 Caliber match shooters though, the team at ArmaLite must have played hooky the day they learned that in 2nd grade. Even though their ArmaLite AR-50 has already been a strong competitor in national matches, they decided [...]

Thompson Center https://www.tcarms.com/ As we reported in our article, Out of the Box MOA, in the last GunsAmerica Magazine, the TC Venture easily lives up to its claim of minute of angle accuracy in a factory rifle. Unfortunately though, most of us can’t shoot good enough to prove this out ourselves, so as a selling [...]

Springfield Armory https://www.springfield-armory.com/ We had an article about this gun from Range Day before SHOT this year. It was created by Springfield as a basic platform from which to build a true competition 1911, without all the bells and whistles you may not want if you buy a full tricked out gun. Rob Leatham, who [...]

Springfield Armory https://www.springfield-armory.com/ This is another of the guns that we checked out on Range Day before SHOT Show and as I explained there, it is more of a gun than it is a story. Last year Springfield released the XD-M 3.8, which was a short barreled gun with the same frame as a standard [...]

KRISS/TDI USA https://www.kriss-usa.com/ Of all the guns that we saw and wrote about from Range Day, the Sphinx line is the one I didn’t really understand. They have been available for several years in Europe, but Europe has very few handguns in civilian hands. It isn’t like the US where we have the 2nd Amendment [...]

KRISS USA https://www.kriss-tdi.com/ The thing you have to love about the Swiss is that they don’t mess around. The KRISS subgun is now being made in the US, in both full auto (with burst), and semi auto for the civilian market. I’m sure many of you have seen the Discovery Channel episode featuring the KRISS. [...]

Barrett https://www.barrett.net/ The MRAD, or Multi Role Adaptive Design rifle, is a new class of rifles from the Barrett. What makes this rifle unique is that it can be swapped out to other calibers with a few turns of an allen wrench. They are calling it a 1500 meter modular sniper system, which is bigger [...]

Sig Sauer https://www.sigsauer.com/ Every gun company has its unique approach to making guns, and a way of fulfilling a new demand in the marketplace. Pocket micro 9mms have become the hot topic in guns because concealed carry has exploded as the next big thing in America, and Sig Sauer has its own take on the [...]