SHOT Show 2025 went from January 21-24 and Breitbart News was there to see the crowds, feel the excitement, and see gun upon gun upon gun, many of which were new offerings for this year.
The SHOT Show is sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and is comprised of “more than 14 miles of exhibits” consisting of guns, ammunition, gun accessories, hunting gear, firearms designed for hunting certain game, suppressors, holsters and safes, thermal and traditional scopes, red dots, knives, civilian body armor, law enforcement body armor, law enforcement tools and weaponry, and so much more.
It is a four-day show in Las Vegas’s Venetian Expo and Caesar’s Forum and it literally takes all four days if someone wants to see it all.
The SHOT Show is a place where people in the firearms industry gather to see the new products that will be hitting the shelves in 2025, and those products come from all over the world. Thus, there were “over 2,850 exhibitors” taking part last week.
While walking one of the many floors of the SHOT Show, Breitbart News saw numerous new products that were either a new take on an older firearm model or a totally new firearm cut designed to blaze its own trail.
For example, we visited the Aimpoint booth and saw the new partnership between Aimpoint and Glock, one which now means retailers can stock Glock handguns that come with an Aimpoint red dot optic affixed to them:
AIMPOINT/GLOCK Combo (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News)
We visited Henry Repeating Rifles and saw their latest SPD lever action rifle project, which has a carbon fiber-sleeved barrel threaded for a suppressor, a futuristic cowboy-looking stock and a red dot-ready receiver:
Henry Repeating Arms SPD Prototype (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News)
We dropped by the Watchtower Firearms booth and admired the APACHE, an American-made, double stack 9mm pistol that makes a good shooter great and a great shooter remarkable:
Watchtower Firearms APACHE (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News)
At the Mossberg booth we admired the 590M Standoff, a compact, magazine-fed 12 gauge pump shotgun that promises to take home defense to a whole new level:
Mossberg 590M Standoff (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News)
And we saw the Herring Bandito 300BLK lever action pistol, which is designed just right to be a truck gun for road trips that snake through long rural highways in the most isolated of areas:
Herring Bandito Lever Action Pistol (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News)
At the SIG Sauer booth we looked at the MCX SURG SPEAR upgrade for US SOCOM. The SURG aspect of the rifle centers on suppression (Suppressed Upper Receiver Group–SURG) and represents part of SIG’s efforts not simply to quiet warfare but to lessen the gas blowback military personnel have to endure.
SIG Sauer MCX SURG (AWR Hawkins / Breitbart News))
And there was so much more, including the Daniel Defense booth, as well as the FN, Colt, Canik, Magpul, Ruger, Taurus, Staccato, SilencerCO, Winchester, Springfield Armory, Smith & Wesson, and CrossBreed Holsters booths, just to name a few. Moreover, we got extended time with Attorneys General Austin Knudsen (R-MT), Kris Kobach (R-KS), and John B. McCuskey (R-WV), and did an exclusive with Rep. Tracey Mann (R-KS) about his efforts to put the ATF in check via the Reining In Federal Licensing Enforcement (RIFLE) Act.
The firearm industry not only produces the guns and accessories we need to exercise our Second Amendment rights, it also employees 384,473 Americans and generates $90.05 billion of economic impact. All this, and more, was on display at NSSF’s SHOT Show 2025.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly:
