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The Tavor 7 not only adds a harder-hitting, .30-cal. chambering to IWI’s bullpup lineup, it builds on the experience gained with the original Tavor rifles, resulting in a highly refined and original design in its own right.

Watch American Rifleman staff on this “Gun Of The Week” with the Winchester SX4 Left Hand Waterfowl Hunter, a semi-automatic shotgun that represents the next step in the design evolution of the Super X shotgun, and it’s tailored specifically for southpaw shooters and hunters.

Winchester Repeating Arms added the Super X semi-automatic shotgun to its catalog back in 1974—a design that is now in its fourth generation—but it wasn’t until 2022 that the company produced a version that ejected to the left for use by the approximately 10 percent of the shooting public that is left-handed.

Watch American Rifleman staff on the range with FN's SCAR 16S NRCH, a commercial version of the SCAR-L developed for special operations groups.

Springfield Armory’s SOCOM 16—a radically cut-down version of its flagship M1A—breathed new life into the best civilian M14-type rifle and advanced the scout rifle concept to its most potent level. The SOCOM II elevates that successful blend of battle-tested, practical engineering even higher, making it a modern, modular, close-quarters combat arm that is powerful and easy to shoot.

Despite its fiendish name, the Springfield Armory Hellion exhibits friendly performance and has features sure to find favor with both right- and left-handed shooters who appreciate the bullpup design’s compact form factor.

Despite concessions required to make it conform to misguided American legislation governing imported semi-automatic rifles, Heckler & Koch’s SL8-6 preserves the essence of Germany’s most distinctive modern tactical rifle: the vaunted G36.

By the 1990s, Zastava Arms—formerly the Yugoslavian national arsenal and now located in the country of Serbia—began designing an updated version of the M76. While it uses a long-stroke design, the new rifle, called the M91, differs by using a stamped-steel receiver and firing the 7.62x54 mm R cartridge.

While substantially different from its original Czech and British namesake, the newest Bren available from CZ-USA has, nevertheless, tapped into a strong American appetite for innovative, high-quality personal-defense small arms—­and is available in a pistol version.