Why This May Be the Best Tactical Shotgun Ever

By Brad Fitzpatrick

Kel-Tec’s new KSG-25 rewrites the book on defensive scatterguns with extended, dual tube magazines that hold 20 rounds of 3-inch, 12-gauge shotshells.

Most gun companies regularly offer new models, but only rarely do these designs represent a total departure from the familiar. There are “new” model 1911s, new ARs, new bolt-action rifles and new pump shotguns, but functionally they are similar in design and layout. Only rarely does a firearm come along that is something completely new – and revolutionary.

Kel-Tec offered up one of those rare out-of-the-box products with its original KSG, a pump shotgun that defied the traditional rounded-receiver, single-magazine-tube design that has been a hallmark of pump shotguns ever since Winchester offered up the Model 1912. It only took a century, but we’re learning to rethink the pump shotgun.

Kel-Tec’s new KSG-25 is an update to the original KSG. Both guns feature an arrow-straight profile with an in-line barrel, receiver and stock, and both have dual selectable magazine tubes that run from the receiver to the end of the barrel. In …Read the Rest

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