The above shotgun is currently being auctioned at Guns America.
This year, the Remington Arms Company stands honored to roll out the 10,000,000th Model 870 shotgun, and would like to thank the millions of shooters and hunters, and great men and women who serve our country in military and law enforcement for making this proud moment possible. For the past 51+ years, you and the industry we serve have helped make the Model 870 the most trusted shotgun ever produced.
You can register to win one of ten commemorative edition shotguns over at Remington's "10,000,000" website.
Last week I blogged ...
I have also heard from a trustworthy source (I cannot reveal the source) that the Gen-4 G17 and G22 models
This is now doubly confirmed. RSR Group, a firearm distributor, has listed the Glock 17 and 22 GEN4 on their website.
Who has login access to the RSR Group website? If you do, please see if pricing information is available.
[ Many thanks to the reader who emailed me the info. ]
Earlier this year an H&K employee said, in an interview with Guns America (skip to 1:30), that Heckler & Koch would launch a H&K P30 pistol chambered in .40 S&W in the fourth quarter. So far the pistol has not been seen.
H&K enthusiasts have confirmed that a .40 S&W P30S/LS and P30/L will be launched at SHOT Show.
UPDATE:
Confirmed! Bubs Gun Shop is listing the pistols.
There are three .40 S&W models. All have 15 round magazines. Price is $831.
[ Many thanks to a reader for emailing me this infomation. ]
I came across Imperial Defense, a British company, who manufacturer M16 and M4 clones.
Imperial Defense MG4A5 (M4 Carbine clone)
Imperial Defense MG4A6 (M4 Commando clone)
According to this post at the MP.net forum, the guns are manufactured in Vietnam! This makes Vietnam the second communist country to manufacture M16s.
I would guess that the guns are copied off China's Norinco CQ 5.56 (M4A1 clone).
This is not the first time a Vietnam company has manufactured clones of Western weaponry. They notably manufacture a Lee Enfield clone, the AIA M-10, much to the frustration of American Lee Enfield enthusiats who cannot import the rifle due to BATFE rules which ban firearm imports from Vietnam.
Yesterday I blogged about Jesse James receiving the first consumer ACR rifle. He has had the rifle photographed and posted the photos on ar15.com. Ignore all Spike's Tactical logos, they were added to the photos and are not on the actual gun.
Left Side. Note "multi-caliber".
Lower and fire control group.
Jesse says ...
- Mid length gas system, 16" barrel, m4 profile, AAC break for m42000 Can. New ratchet and lock design.
- Gen-4 Rail system with removable pic rail sections. Rail moves a little in rear if twisted. (See Shoot Photos)
- Came with both the new style folder with spring lock and the fixed stock.
- New style gas block, no bayo lug,
- Gun is Black.
- All kinds of Q/D options on both sides of the rifle.
- Charging handle can be flipped left or right, up or down.
- Great fit and function, and is very easy to figure out. Rear upper pin hangs slightly when in out position.
- Trigger is 100% better than SCAR and is very crisp. (Looks to be a standard AR style, might be wrong though)
It is great to finally see what is, almost certainly, the final civilian version of the Bushmaster ACR.
The suspected reason for the KB was a round fired out of battery.
A couple more photos can be seen at Carolina Shooters Forum and Blue Gun Blog
[Hat Tip: Blue Gun Blog]
From what I read in the media, I had thought that the Swiss tradition of reserve troops taking their military assault rifles home with them was soon coming to an end. Sebastian reports that this is not so.
I am very pleased that our Swiss friends will continue to enjoy their unique, and very practical, tradition.
Uncle has got the scoop!!!!
I looks like I may have been correct regarding the new texture.
Great to see that the fishscale slide serrations were dropped.
Guy Sagi has just blogged about an interesting shotgun. The TriStar Cobra Force incorporates a spring-loaded fore end to speed up cycling the action ...
Enter the TriStar Cobra Force shotgun with a spring-loaded fore-end that, quite literally, assists a shooter in bringing the shotgun back into battery. According to Garrett Bader, of TriStar sporting Arms, “You can fire this gun almost as fast as a semi-auto.”
The gun, which is manufactured in Turkey by Armsan, comes with a formidable looking flash hider that can be replaced with Beretta/Benelli-style choke tubes. The receiver has a Picatinny rail already mounted, the fore-end has another rail, and up front a fiber-optic sight provides quick target acquisition in low light and operates well as a post in virtually no light.
It gets exhaustive testing in the January issue of Shooting Illustrated magazine that's available on newsstands today, and there were some surprises uncovered, including its unusually crisp trigger with a consistent 5-pound let-off weight.
The idea makes sense to me. I look forward to reading the review in the magazine.
The Army was recently demoing the upgraded, and long-overdued, version of the M2 Browning machine gun. Army.mil reports ...
The M2 A1 is an upgrade to the M2 machine gun. It provides a quick-change barrel and fixed head space and timing to reduce Soldier errors and associated safety risks, according to a report prepared by the Small Arms Branch. The Army is also working on a lightweight .50-caliber machine gun to augment the M2 A1, Henthorn said.
Also on demoed was the light-weight version of the M240, the M240L, which will be deployed next year ...
One of the weapons showcased was the M240L medium machine gun, a lighter alternative to the M240B machine gun. The M240L weighs 21-and-a-half pounds, six pounds lighter than the M240B.
"Lightening Soldiers' loads is a key element of what we want to do," Henthorn said. "We are carrying a lot of weight downrange on missions because we want capability. Every pound we take off a guy is a pound he doesn't have to carry up and down a hill."
Along with reduced weight, the branch is shortening the barrel and providing a collapsible butt stock for the M240 L, said Troy Harris, deputy chief of the small arms branch.
Henthorn said Army-wide fielding could begin in 10 months.
[ Many thanks to Lance for emailing me the link. ]
