The Smart Way to Buy Guns Online
Every handgun review, head-to-head and buying guide we’ve published lives here, newest first. If you’re not sure where to start, our best handguns list ranks the top pick in every category, and the handgun buyer’s guide walks a first-time buyer through action, caliber and size.
Carrying every day? The best concealed carry handguns guide is the one most readers want. For range and home defense, start with the best 9mm pistols, and if you’d rather have a wheel gun, we’ve ranked the best revolvers too. Every best-of list on the site is indexed in our buying guides hub.
Four hundred rounds of .45 Colt through the Uberti 1873 Cattleman, the Colt Single Action Army pattern for about a quarter of the price. Uberti lists 29 models from $599 to $1,479, and the ladder is strange: brass trim costs $90 less than steel, the 5.5 inch brass gun undercuts the other lengths, and a 7.5 inch steel .357 lists below the 5.5 inch.
Seven hundred rounds of .22 LR and .22 WMR through the Ruger Super Wrangler, the two cylinder single action that adds an adjustable rear sight, a longer barrel and a steel cylinder frame to the Wrangler. Ruger lists all four models at $339, the 250th Anniversary is 5.7 ounces lighter, and the cylinders will not fit a Wrangler or a Single-Six.
Eight hundred rounds through the Kimber Custom LW, the aluminum framed full-size 1911 that weighs 31.2 ounces against 38 for the steel Custom II. Kimber gives it a stainless match barrel, lists the KCB Club Bundle below the bare Shadow Ghost, and sells it under a dozen trim names that differ in sights, grips and magazines.
A 2-1 Fifth Circuit panel held the federal ban on buying a handgun from an out-of-state dealer unconstitutional. Who won, what it covers and what is next.
DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel says the federal ban on dealer handgun sales to 18 to 20 year olds is unconstitutional. What the opinion does and does not change.
The Justice Department sued San Jose over its $1,591 concealed carry application fee, which it calls the highest in the nation and an unconstitutional barrier to carry.
Five hundred rounds through the Girsan MC1911 Untouchable, the all steel Turkish 1911 that trusted retailers sell from $431.99. It stumbled twice on old hollow points inside the first hundred rounds and then ran 400 clean, and EAA’s own price list charges the same $479 for the Government, Commander and Officer frames.
We ran 350 rounds through two Charter Arms Pitbull 9mm revolvers without a failure to fire, and found the one defensive load that locks the cylinder. Charter’s own price list also makes the 4.2 inch .40 S&W the cheapest Pitbull it sells, at $421.47, even though most retailers charge more for it.
One hundred and fifty rounds through the Taurus 605 five shot .357 Magnum, with no failures to fire and none to extract. It grouped 1.94 inches at 25 yards, but Taurus’s own spec sheets put the two inch at 24.00 ounces and every three inch at 23.52, which changes which one you should buy.
