Most Expensive & Crazy Cool Big Guns From SHOT Show 2025
$175K Dillon Aero Minigun, Barrett M107, SIG SAUER MCX-SPEAR & More In Our Top 6 Guns From SHOT Show 2025
It’s not hard to dump a holy fortune on guns and gear these days. Each year in January, more than 50,000 gun geeks descend upon Las Vegas to paw over the latest and greatest cool-guy guns and gear at the annual NSSF SHOT Show. For those recent lottery winners among us, here are some of the spendier offerings that caught Hook & Barrel’s eye.
SIG SAUER MCX-SPEAR
The MCX-SPEAR is the semiautomatic civilian version of the US military’s newest combat rifle. Featuring an indestructible two-position short-stroke gas piston-driven action and all the bells and whistles, Uncle Sam claims this is the finest combat rifle on Planet Earth. Because SIG is so freaking awesome, they also offer a semi-automatic version for us normal folks as well.
Owning the same state-of-the-art smoke pole that our Rangers are packing downrange isn’t cheap. Parking one of these bad boys in your gun safe will set you back $4999.99 without glass or accessories. That’s just what it costs to be the apex predator nowadays. The MCX-SPEAR is currently available in 7.62x51mm NATO. The same rifle in the Army’s new .277 Fury is coming soon.
Ohio Ordnance Works M2-SLR
John Moses Browning began designing the M2HB .50BMG heavy machine gun back in 1917 as a tool to shoot down German observation balloons. The Ma Deuce has gone on to become the longest-serving infantry weapon in American military history. This monster weighs 128 pounds with all the support stuff, is 65 inches long, and fires cartridges as big as your hand.
Ohio Ordnance Works will sell you a semi-auto version of Mister Browning’s inimitable masterpiece that transfers just like any other conventional semiautomatic firearm. Even cheap .50 BMG ammo is around four bucks a round, but you will certainly make some new friends the next time you drag this puppy to the range. This .50-caliber beast can be yours for a cool $17,298.85. Make that $20,000 with the tripod.
FN M249S Para
The FN M249S SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) has got to be the most adorable belt-fed gun ever contrived. Tipping the scales at 16 pounds while featuring a stubby 16.1-inch barrel and a collapsible stock, the semiauto version of the paratrooper SAW feeds from either STANAG M4 magazines or M27 linked belts. The M249S is a dead ringer for the 5.56mm belt-fed machinegun US troops have carried from Grenada to Afghanistan.
Available in either long or short-barreled versions in both black and FDE, the M249S has all the latest DOD upgrades along with a quick-change barrel and mil-spec awesomeness. Maintenance is a snap, and you can’t kill it. The MSRP for the M249S Para is a paltry $11,094.
HK MR-A4
On 2 May 2011, Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group used HK416 rifles to send Osama bin Laden off to meet his 72 dark-eyed virgins. As celebrity endorsements in the world of tactical firearms go, that’s as good as it gets. Ever since then, the American shooting public has been clamoring for a semi-automatic version of the HK416 we could own on this side of the pond. HK has finally heard our plaintive cries and come through with upgraded semi-auto versions of the legendary HK416 action in both 5.56 and 7.62. They call the new gun the MR A4. These guns aren’t cheap, but they do have all the bells and whistles.
These weapons come in three broad flavors—rifle versions in either 5.56 or 7.62 sport 16.5-inch barrels and adjustable HK buttstocks. The pistol variant ships with a bare buffer tube for the pistol brace of your choice and an 11-inch barrel. All MR-A4 guns incorporate the same clean-running, short-stroke, gas-piston-driven action that defined the legendary HK416. This system is easily user-adjustable for suppressed or unsuppressed operation using nothing fancier than a standard set of human fingers. It comes from HK, so everything is as perfect as humanity can make it. The MSRP ranges from $3,999 to $4,799 depending upon caliber and particulars.
Barrett M107A1
We all want to be prepared. Personal defense is the number one reason to buy a modern sporting rifle or combat handgun today. However, what if the bad guys show up in armored vehicles or are hiding behind garbage dumpsters? That’s when you need the Barrett M107A1 .50-caliber anti-materiel rifle.
An upgrade over the legacy M82 Light Fifty, the semi-automatic .50-caliber Barrett is familiar to anyone who has ever played Call of Duty or seen Robocop or Navy SEALs. This is the MAC daddy of long-range precision rifles. Throwing a 660-grain bullet to nearly 3,000 fps, the M107A1 means not having to say you’re sorry in all the world’s recognized languages.
Featuring a 29-inch barrel, a 10-round magazine, and a stripped empty weight of 28.7 pounds, the M107A1 is neither concealable nor readily portable. However, it offers unparalleled downrange thump. The gun’s long recoil action is philosophically similar to that of the classic Browning Auto-5 shotgun. The MSRP is $13,499.99.
Dillon Aero M134D Minigun
Weighing 66 pounds empty and sporting more sex appeal than Sydney Sweeney on her very best day, the M134D minigun from Dillon Aero is the ultimate iteration of the GE electrically-powered, rifle-caliber Gatling gun pioneered during the Vietnam War. The M134D is arguably the most reliable automatic weapon in the world, and it cycles at 3,000 rounds per minute. That’s fifty shots per second.
Dillon has sold the M134D to free nations’ militaries around the globe. Uncle Sam has put them on helicopters, armored vehicles, and assault boats. With a basic mount, feed system, and sundry particulars, one gleaming brand-new M134D will set you back a cool $175,000.
Don’t break out your checkbook just yet. Keep in mind that you’ll also have to score some island someplace and set up your own free and fair democratically-elected government to be eligible to purchase one. Once you factor in those incidentals, we’re starting to talk about some serious money.