[SHOT 2026] EAA Brings Back Affordable Combo Guns

European American Armory was back at the SHOT Show for 2026 with a booth full of their usual mix of imported firearms—handguns, shotguns and rifles. And in one corner, they had a few firearms that were both shotguns and rifles at the same time. They’re bringing combination guns into the U.S. market soon, and they should be affordable—a hard thing to find these days.

Combo guns @ TFB:

• POTD: Percussion Rifle and Duck Bill Blunderbuss Combination Gun
• The Rimfire Report: The Savage Model 24 Combination Gun
• The Rimfire Report: The Discontinued (again) Springfield M6 Scout
• The Original M6 Aircrew Survival Rifle

What’s a combination gun?

They’re rarely seen in the field these days, at least in North America, but once upon a time, combination guns were relatively common. A combination gun, or a combo gun as they’re sometimes called, is a firearm that has both a shotgun barrel and a rifle barrel, almost always in an over/under configuration (you can also find dual shotgun barrels combined with a single rifle barrel; these are called drillings).

There are a couple of reasons people buy combination guns. First, depending where you’re hunting and what you’re hunting, it might be very convenient to be able to switch between a rifle or shotgun without having to carry two separate firearms. Say you’re partridge hunting and see a deer—you can easily switch to an appropriate rifle round, instead of pointlessly blasting birdshot. Or say you’re varmint hunting and want a rifle that can handle coyotes at a distance, but also flatten them with buckshot up close.

The second reason to buy a combination gun is that some countries limit the number of firearms a private citizen can own. Having a firearm that combines the usefulness of two hunting guns makes sense in a place like that.

Chiappa then brought the Double Badger to market, but most of those are in rimfire/shotgun combinations; they’ve made centerfire/shotgun combinations in the past, and still produce some. These are the only such firearms widely available in the States.

New from Balikli

Now, EAA says it’s bringing combination guns in from Turkish manufacturer Balikli. We’ve seen these guns before; Balikli was exhibiting them in a corner of the SHOT Show basement in 2024. At that time, we noted that they had some unusual chambering choices, including .300 Winchester Magnum, .30-30 and .357 Magnum—not that there’s anything out of the ordinary with these calibers, but they’re rarely found in combination guns made in Europe.

We don’t know exactly which calibers EAA will bring stateside, and we don’t know pricing. But if you keep an eye on their website, we’d expect to see them show up soon.