Best Handgun For Self Defense

Rock Island Armory (RIA) 1911

1911-style pistols run the gambit of incredibly expensive and reliable to incredibly cheap with spotty reliability at best. Rock Island Armory (RIA) has produced a very well made 1911 for a great price. These weapons are accurate, reliable, and a…

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Taurus Pt 111 Pro

Taurus made their name making copies of Smith and Wesson’s more famous revolvers, and selling them much cheaper than Smith and Wesson ever did. Nowadays Taurus makes their own original weapons to include both revolvers and semi autos. The Taurus…

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Taurus Judge

The first thing you notice about the Taurus Judge is the size. This revolver looks like a solid hunk of steel, and it pretty much is. This weapon was clearly not designed to be concealed. Picking the weapon up you…

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CZ-75

The CZ-75 is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol made by Česká Zbrojovk (CZ) in the Czech Republic. CZ is known for very good quality at reasonable prices. The particular model shown here is known as the Pre-B, because it was made before the…

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Canik 55

The Canik 55 Dolphin is a 9mm handgun also known as the Tristar C-100. This handgun is made in Turkey and is one of the many CZ-75 late model handgun clones. Why clone the CZ-75? Because the CZ-75 is one…

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Springfield XD-9 Sub-Compact

The Springfield XD-9 Sub-Compact is a 9mm polymer handgun. From the factory, it comes in a hard gun case with 2 magazines: 1 regular and 1 extended 2-stack magazine. The regular magazine holds 9 rounds while the extended holds 16 rounds. Many…

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Ruger LC9

The LC9 is a sub-compact, 9mm semi-automatic handgun made by Ruger. It has a 7-round single stack magazine and has a very low profile. Many people prefer to carry a sub-compact as opposed to full-sized weapons because of the smaller…

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Glock 22

The Glock pistol took the shooting world by storm when it rolled out in 1982. Its polymer frame was a radical idea at the time and lead to misconceptions that the pistol could be smuggled through an airport metal detector…

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HK P30

The Heckler & Koch P30-series of pistols was developed by HK as an evolution of the company’s Universal Self-loading Pistol (USP) and its later P2000. The USP was a scaled-down version of the Mk23 pistol designed for US SOCCOM. The…

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