Posts by Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson

An advocate of gun proliferation zones, Richard is a long time shooter, former cop and internet entrepreneur. Among the many places he calls home is http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/.

CA UPPER

Christensen Arms Rifle Components

Christensen Arms announced the company is now selling individual rifle components including carbon fiber handguards, forged uppers and lowers, flash suppressors and carbon wrapped barrels. In addition to rifles and rifle components, Christensen Arms manufacturers some [Read More…]

MGI Survival Package

MG Industries (MGI) announced the introduction of the Survival Package.  The kit is based around the MARCK-15 Hydra rifle, which is an AR-style gun that uses interchangeable parts to quickly swap calibers. The base rifle in the kit comes in 9mm with a 16″ bull [Read More…]

IRHunter

IR Hunter Thermal Sights

IR Defense Corp. launched a new website:  IRHunter.com.  The site discusses the benefits of using thermal imagins technology for hunting and offers a number of comparison photos between third gen light amplification technology and thermal imaging. Thermal imaging [Read More…]

458 dropbear

New Cartridge: 458 dropbear

Inspired by the recent introduction of the 45 Raptor, an Australian shooter using the screen name of Quan-Time worked up another bigbore round based on the 308 Winchester case.  The new round is called the 458 dropbear. Quan-Time details the cartridge and the process [Read More…]

Ammo Subscription Service

A new service promises to deliver uninterrupted, regular supplies of ammunition to subscribers starting in July 2014.  The new service, AmmoReady.com, will initially offer ammo subscriptions for popular handgun calibers. There are several things not yet known.  For [Read More…]

Nikon M-300 BLK

Nikon M-300 BLK Rifle Scope

Nikon announced the company is now selling a 1.5-6x 32 scope with a 30mm main tube that is specially designed for the 300 BLK cartridge.  The M-300 BLK scope uses the Nikon BDC SuperSub illuminated reticle.  Illumination is adjustable with 32 levels of intensity. [Read More…]

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Home Made HK P7 HCA

Albanian AR15.com member prestonlennox recently published photos and videos of a home made HK P7 “half cock action” (HCA) pistol.  Working on rumors of a new Heckler & Koch striker-fired pistol, the poster took a Umarex SP9 and Browning HP parts to make [Read More…]

G42 laser

G42 Laser from LaserLyte

LaserLyte is now shipping a laser aiming unit for the Glock 42 pistol.  The new unit uses a red laser that mounts to the front of the trigger guard. The unit will have two laser housings one to fit the G42, and the second to fit the G26/G27 pistols.  This would allow [Read More…]

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SIG X-Five

The SIG SAUER  X-Five series of handguns are now being sold in the US.  The guns are competition guns that are a bit more expensive than the regular SIG offerings.  The guns being sold are the: XFIVE ALL AROUND, MSRP $2,245 XFIVE CLASSIC, MSRP $2,679 XFIVE ENTRY, [Read More…]

Billet Stock

Modular Billet Stock

JL Billet is now selling the Modular Billet Stock.  The aluminum buttstock is designed to fit all AR-style rifles with a Mil-Spec buffer tube. By itself, the stock weighs 16 ounces.  Other than the cheek pad and base, no plastic parts are used in the stock.  A [Read More…]

SureFire Hellfighter 5

SureFire Hellfighter 5

The new HellFighter 5 ARC light from SureFire will be shipping soon according to the staff I spoke with at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa, FL.  The HellFighter 5 is the latest member of the HellFighter portable searchlights from the [Read More…]

Relia-Bolt

The Sharps Relia-Bolt

The Sharps Rifle Company is selling a new AR-15 bolt called the Relia-Bolt.  Some of the features the new bolt offers are: redesigned lugs to “…virtually eliminate the most common MSR malfunction, the bolt to barrel extension jam.” machined from S7 [Read More…]