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While browsing the exhibitors at the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston last month on the lookout for new guns, we saw a glimpse into a potential future of projectile arms with the Coil Accelerator. Marketed out of the North Shore Sports Club in Illinois of all places, the CA-09 is in low-rate production. In a nutshell, the makers claim it is the first-ever commercially viable electric-powered Coil Accelerator. The basic overview is that it uses onboard electromagnetic coils-- kind of like a rail gun but without a sliding armature-- to quietly pull nickel-plated iron disks at an adjustable rate of fire. It is fed from 50-round magazines and can fire about 700 times on a single charge.

IWI showcased its new Masada Slim pistol at this year’s NRA Annual Meeting in Houston. The company announced the new diet-fed arrival just before the event, making Houston one of the first chances to meet the slender handgun up close and personal. The company was aiming to launch a firearm that offered capacity with a direct-milled slide that still stayed true to the full-size Masada with an insert receiver. Other features include a flat trigger with a Glock-style safety lever and sights ready for aftermarket options.

With a muzzle shaped like the beefy Desert Eagle yet weighing almost the same as a few sticks of butter and gobbling up rimfire rounds just as smoothly, Magnum Research’s Mountain Eagle is a surprisingly short-run design. This radical polymer piece is now all but forgotten – except to those lucky enough to find them on the used market. Here’s why you may want to start the hunt for the vintage Mountain Eagle.

Galco hit this year’s NRA Annual Meeting in Houston with some serious chest bling ready for any hunter, hiker, or general outdoorsman set to head into the wilderness. The company’s new High Ready Chest Rig features fits for various firearms ranging from Glocks and Sig Sauer handguns to soon-to-arrive versions ready to host 1911s, M&Ps, and other firearms.

Last month, Sig Sauer hosted a unique and exciting Freedom Days experience – an event open to the public, not restricted to industry insiders – and it was sweet. Held at the desert wonderland that is the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, those who paid an admission price – that when you think about it, barely covered the ammo they were slated to shoot – were able to take nearly 50 different Sig firearms for a spin.

The company revered for all-American lever-action rifles actually builds a significant number of firearms outside that cowboy scope. In fact, Henry Repeating Arms offers a healthy dose of single shots, a semi-automatic, a few youth bolts, and the one with perhaps the greatest cult following – the Pump Action Octagon. Here’s what you’ll want to know about one of the few slide-driven rimfires still in production today and why it remains a solid seller.

Century Arms has brought another AK to the market for 2022 and had its new BFT47 on hand at the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston over Memorial Day weekend to show it off. The company's description of the rifle positions it as the “new flagship rifle of Century Arms” with the goal to set it as the new standard for American-made AK-pattern rifles.

Ruger has built a reputation over the last decade for offering budget-friendly micro semi-autos, with the latest generation arriving last summer in the shape of the double-stack LCP Max. It’s basically a capacity upgrade of the previous single-stack LCP II, tacking on four more rounds for a total of 10+1 in the palm of your hand. Touted as lightweight, compact, and powerful (L-C-P, see what they did there?), I finally got the itch to try out these itsy-bitsy carry guns as summer rolled around. So, I snatched an LCP Max from the Guns.com Certified Used Vault and took it for a spin.

Chris Laack, Federal Handgun Ammo Product Manager, explained the origins and development of the 30 Super Carry caliber. Filmed at NRAAM 2022 in Texas.

Federal showed off their new Force X-2 12 gauge home defense and 22 Magnum Punch ammo at NRAAM 2022.

Cobalt Kinetics SPR Elite is an outstanding looking AR-15 with all the bells and whistles one could want. I’ve always heard great things about Cobalt Kinetics and how their rifles perform. We recently got a shipment into the Vault so I was excited to see what the big deal was. Let’s dive into what separates the SPR Elite from other rifles.

Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County, Florida, rolled up up to the Keltec booth at NRAAM 2022 sporting the most American shirt he could find ready to talk about guns and freedom. We caught up with Ivey to see how his county in Florida has bucked the national trends in recent years and actually lowered crime rate by 51 percent in the past nine years. We also got his thoughts on the latest proposed "Assault Weapons Ban" and how the average armed citizen can help themselves.

Walther showed off their new WMP .22 Magnum pistol, their PDP-F, and PDP Pro SD at NRAAM 2022.

FN showed off their SCARs in a new mulitcam design and their new FN 15 DMR3 at the NRAAM 2022.

FN launched their new 509 Midsize Tactical pistols at NRAAM 2022.

Canik showed off their new SFx Rival and brand new Mete SFx Pro at NRAAM 2022.

Mossberg showed off their new 940 Tactical Pro 12 gauge shotgun and 9mm MC2C handgun at NRAAM 2022 in Texas over the weekend.

Springfield Armory brought several new offerings to show off in Houston last weekend for the 151st NRA Annual Meeting. Guns.com caught up with shooting sports legend Rob Leatham to get the 411 on new guns from Springer such as the 16+1 capacity XD-M Elite 4.5 OSP in 10mm, the innovative 15+1 capacity Hellcat Pro, and a new Commander-length Emissary model in 9mm. The new XD-M Elite 4.5 Optical Sight Pistol, as its name would infer, comes standard from Croatia via Springer with a 4.5-inch hammer-forged steel barrel and a slide milled for a micro red dot. With a 7.6-inch overall length, the pistol includes an extended and flared “short” magwell for rapid magazine swaps.

Ruger showed off their new Marlin 1895 rifles at NRAAM 2022 in Texas over the weekend.

Taurus brought two new handguns to Texas last weekend, each with its own well-thought-out design philosophy to push the budget gunmaker into new territories. Announced on the first day of the NRA Annual Meetings were the new 856 Executive .38 Special +P revolver and the Taurus G3 Tactical.

Sig Sauer on Thursday announced a new full-sized variant of the P320 in 10mm Auto-- the 15+1 capacity XTen. Soft-launched at the inaugural Sig Freedom Days event at the Ben Avery Shooting Sports Center north of Phoenix earlier this month, Phil Strader, Sig’s director of firearms product management, gave us the details in the above video.

I recently picked up a used Ruger Mini-14 from the Certified Used Guns Vault at Guns.com, and I couldn’t be happier. It is currently my favorite gun to shoot at the range.

Jason St. John recounts the whole story behind Sig Sauer's XM250 at Sig Freedom Days May 6-8, 2022.

In the “Hunt for Old Guns,” we look at 19th-century American firearms – the rare, the unusual, and the iconic. In this episode, we take a short look at the early history of the carbine.

Guns.com recently got to hang out with the folks from Sig Sauer and learned about the company’s successful submission to the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program.