Best Budget Optics-Ready 9mm: 5 Picks Under $550 (2026)
The best budget optics-ready 9mm pistols of 2026, ranked. Five factory red-dot-ready picks under $550, compared on price, capacity, and reliability.
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I Am Smith & Wesson: Subpoenaed CEO Comes Out Swinging
Today, we are all Smith & Wesson. It never fails: In the wake of a terrible crime, America’s anti-gunners rush to punish all of the people who didn’t do it. That’s because they’re very eager to leverage the public’s emotional reaction to tragedies like the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, this past May. So eager, in…
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Ruger, Viridian Create New 10/22 Carbine & Riflescope Package
We were pretty proud when we were among the first outlets to break the news that Viridian was coming out with a new line of riflescopes, but it seems we weren’t the first ones to know: Ruger has just announced they’re soon to ship a new configuration of the popular 10/22 Carbine, which will be…
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Ruger’s AR-556 Pistol Now Chambered in .300 Blackout
Don’t know why they didn’t call it the AR-300… The mad geniuses who do the marketing at Ruger have managed it again: They’ve made me decide that I absolutely do not have enough rifle-caliber pistols (to offset my collection of pistol-caliber carbines, naturally) with the introduction of their new AR-556 Pistol chambered in .300 Blackout….
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Ruger’s Security-9 Shrinks to Compact Size
When Ruger introduced the LCP in 2008, it sent the company to the head of the pack of designers of tiny, ultra-concealable CCW pistols. Twelve years later, the downsizing trend continues (in the best possible way) with the new, compact version of the Security-9: the Security-9 Compact. With an overall length of just 6.5 inches…
