Category: All About Guns

Insanely expensive handguns that are worth the money

Kimber Classic Carry Elite Built in Kimber’s Custom Shop, this fine 1911 45 ACP features bright blue slide with gold inlay, matte stainless controls and special walnut grips. $1,550+

Colt Special Combat Government – The Colt M1911 pistol has been a favorite for 100 years as a service pistol, law enforcement pistol, and personal defense firearm. Carrying on its legacy of flawless craftsmanship, the Colt Custom Shop proudly offers the Special Combat Government Series.

This series offers handcrafted 1911-type pistols with superior feel and performance. This pistol features an extended ambidextrous safety lock, an upswept beavertail grip safety, a 3-hole aluminum trigger, and a lowered and flared ejection port. $2000+

Ed Brown Special Forces Carry is built for pure performance and extreme use, the Special Forces Carry pistol I and II has everything you need for serious performance.

All the engineering, precision manufacturing, and hand-fitting the Brown family is famous for is included, with a severe use coating for improved wear resistance and rust protection. A unique and highly durable Chainlink III pattern provides a secure grip for severe applications. $2,400+

Springfield Armory 1911 Pro Model Rail is stainless steel mill spec gun is built on a full frame and slide with a bead-blasted matte finish. A 7 + 1 round, .45 ACP, single action pistol that weighs in at 2.3lb with an extremely accurate 5” barrel and walnut grips. $3500

Wilson Combat Tactical Supergrade is a combination of breathtaking aesthetics and functionality within a single pistol. With the beauty and workmanship that have made the Wilson Combat Supergrades the standard to which all other custom pistols are compared, the Tactical Supergrade is handcrafted from carbon steel for use as the ultimate defensive handgun.

The Tactical Supergrade sophisticates the world of handguns, and is the finest full-size defensive pistol in today’s market. $5000+

Heckler & Koch P7 s a German 9×19mm semi-automatic pistol designed by Helmut Weldle and produced by Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K) of Oberndorf am Neckar. It was revealed to the public for the first time in 1976 as the PSP (police self-loading pistol) The P7’s spring extractor is contained within the slide, while the fixed ejector is a surface on the slide catch.

The grip of this pistol features a built-in cocking lever located at the front of the grip. Before the pistol can be fired, this lever must be squeezed; thus this lever acts as a safety. The P7 is fed from a single-stack box magazine with a capacity of 8 rounds $1,100+

Smith & Wesson Performance Center Shorty a compact, metal frame .40 that is as accurate as any compact out there.. An added feature, this gun can share magazines with many other Smith & Wessons including 669, 6906, 469, 59, among others. $1000+

Rohrbaugh R9 Stealth Elite was a semi-automatic pistol produced by Rohrbaugh Firearms of Long Island, New York. It was chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum, and was designed to be a lightweight, compact self-defense weapon.

The R9 was rated for standard pressure 9mm ammunition. Firing +P or +P+ ammunition in the R9 was not recommended by the manufacturer. The Rohrbaugh R9 Series Pistol was the NRA “Shooting Illustrated” magazines “Handgun of the Year” for 2005. The Rohrbaugh R9 had no manual safety, locking slide, or magazine disconnect; the weapon could be fired with no magazine inserted. It had no sharp exterior edges or protrusions.

The Stealth versions of both the R9 and R9s that had blued slides instead of the standard stainless steel slide. A rare ‘Covert’ version of the R9, similar in appearance to the Stealth, was also offered with additional improvements provided by customization at Wilson Combat. The R9 weighed 13.5 ounces empty, the six-round magazine weighed 1.6 ounces empty. The R9 weighed approximately 18 ounces fully loaded with 7 rounds (magazine loaded with six rounds inserted in the pistol and one round loaded in the chamber). $1200+