Check out a few of our highlights from the second day of SHOT Show 2025! Century Arms/MKE AP5-SD The MP5 is probably the best SMG ever made, and the MP5SD is its coolest variant. Unfortunately for Americans, lookalikes have been expensive and difficult to procure. Until now. Century Arms has started importing a new AP5…
We Traveled to Texas to Train with XRay Alpha and Put the New SureFire XC3 to the Test When it comes to weapon-mounted duty lights for law enforcement and military professionals, the SureFire X300U is considered by many to be the gold standard. However, SureFire’s forays into the compact weaponlight segment haven’t always been as…
Check out a few of our highlights from the first day of SHOT Show 2025! Spandau S2 This is a sweet little package waterfowlers will appreciate—the Spandau S2. Delivering all the features and performance of a high-end inertia-driven shotgun, the S2 comes with a price tag anyone can afford. Dressed in Realtree Max-7 or APX,…
On the surface, the answer to what’s the best suppressor is obvious: the quietest one. But not only is that answer untrue, it’s incomplete. Absolutely, some silencers are better than others, just like how some cars and guns are better than others, but individual considerations always come into play. If you’re looking for lazy, just…
Firearms that discharge multiple projectiles at once have been around since the blunderbuss and fowling pieces of the 1600s and beyond, used for hunting birds as well as war. The basic concept of the modern shotgun isn’t so modern; witness the iconic Winchester Model 1897 pump-action shotgun from the late 1800s. They’re simple, reliable smoothbores…
With a new year and SHOT just around the corner, Springfield Armory is kicking things off with a new version of their extremely popular Prodigy double-stack 1911! With the same DNA of the rest of the line, the Prodigy Compact scales things down to make a more attractive package for CCW. SPECS Caliber: 9mm Color:…
Whether it’s spelled out or unspoken, every job has an expected dress code. Unless you want to stick out like a sore thumb among your coworkers, it’s wise to stay within those expectations, at least on the surface. A blazer or sport coat is a mandatory accessory for many urban white-collar jobs, but traditional jackets…
Magpul Industries Corporation is now synonymous with their ubiquitous polymer magazines. But that’s not how they got their start back in 1999. Back in the day, when founder Richard Fitzpatrick served in the Marines, operators would attach loops of paracord or duct tape to their magazines to make it easier to grab them and yank…
KRISS USA has introduced the KYMERA! A hammer-fired modular handgun designed to bring hammer-fired DA/SA into a new modern era. Chambered in 9mm, the KYMERA is an optics-ready, Double Action/Single Action (DA/SA) pistol featuring a modular grip system. The replaceable grip modules, available in various angles and sizes, are designed to accommodate different preferences and…
Photos by Kenda Lenseigne The numbers don’t lie. 2,760 feet per second. About what you could expect from a 6.5 Creedmoor, lobbing a 140-grain bullet, with a .310 G7 ballistic coefficient. The MRAD ELR’s projectiles exit its barrel right about the same speed, but the other numbers are different. Those digits are why the gun…