New For 2025: Rossi Lightweight Carbine (LWC) With Folding Stock

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posted on May 10, 2025
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Rossi LWC Folding 01
Image courtesy of Rossi USA.

Rossi USA offers a full lineup of simple and economical break-action, single-shot rifles, shotguns and handguns. Last year, the company introduced the Lightweight Carbine (LWC)—a modern, optics and suppressor-ready compact rifle. New for 2025, Rossi is adding a folding stock option to its LWC offerings.

Right side of the Rossi Lightweight Carbine with its stock folded.
New for 2025, Rossi adds a folding stock option to its Lighweight Carbine (LWC) for a “fold, pack and go” package.

Like the original LWC, the folding stock model uses a hammer-fired, break-open action that features a transfer-bar safety system and a manual crossbolt safety.The action opens with a release lever positioned by the hammer and an ejector removes spent cases. The receiver is steel covered in a polymer overmold. The guns' 16.5” barrels are hammer-forged. No sights are supplied, but the rifle comes with an aluminum Picatinny optics rail mounted on the barrel and a thumb extension on the hammer. Steel components are given a matte-black oxide finish. 

Left side of the Rossi Lightweight Carbine with its stock folded.
Based around the break-open single-shot action also used by the Tuffy and Brawler series, the LWC is hammer-fired with a manual crossbolt safety.

Though the original LWC easily disassembles into two pieces for storage or transport, the addition of a folding stock makes for a compact firearm that can be quickly brought into action, or what Rossi calls a “fold, pack and go” option. Folding to the right side of the rifle, the polymer stock features both a sling loop and quick-detachable sling swivel mount. The stock is also available separately as an accessory for Lightweight Carbines and Tuffy rifles and shotguns and has an MSRP of $60. The folding carbine uses the same polymer fore-end with molded-in texturing of the original LWC.

Top view of the Rossi Lightweight Carbine with its stock folded.
Like the original LWC, the folding stock model is optics and suppressor ready right out of the box.

The Rossi Lighweight Carbine with folding stock weighs 5.25 lbs. and has an overall length of 31.5”. While Rossi does not specify the rifle’s overall length with the stock folded, it appears to be approximately 23”. The rifle is available chambered in either .300 Blackout (1:8” twist rifling) or 5.56 NATO (1:7” twist rifling) with their muzzles threaded 5/8x24 TPI. Both have an MSRP of $334. For more information, see the company’s website.

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