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Australia’s famous Lithgow factory, which originally opened just before the first world war to produce Enfield rifles for British Commonwealth troops, stopped producing civilian rifles decades ago and instead focused on military weapons, such as the Australia/New [Read More…]
If you have not heard of them before, The Ballistics By The Inch project tests cartridges by shooting them through a rifle-length barrel, noting the velocity, then cutting an inch off the end of the barrel and repeating until the barrel is just 2″ in length. This [Read More…]
UPDATE: The rumor was wrong. They are actually just between production. I have been hearing rumors from credible sources that FNH-USA will soon be telling dealers that they will no longer be selling the FN FS2000 bullpup rifle (the civilian semi-automatic version of the [Read More…]
An X-Ray technician uploaded this X-Ray taken of a person shot by an “AK” (non-shooters call just about any gun an AK, so lets just assume it was a semi-automatic rifle). The patient will require “two really long plates and some bone graft.”. [Read More…]
Redditor Halvors7 has published the printable parts to build his FN P90-inspired Charon AR-15 lower. The Charon features an integrated buttstock, handgrip and trigger guard. The stock is fixed but can be adjusted for length-of-pull by using spacers. The lower even [Read More…]
Rheinmetall Defence are developing a new 7.62mm medium machine gun called the RMG 7.62 which takes a unique approach to dealing with heat, the age-old machine gun nemesis. At first glance it looks like a small version of the M134 Minigun, but the RMG is no Minigun. [Read More…]
Tomorrow’s Powerball jackpot lottery has hit $600 million! This, along with the news that Savage has just been bought out for a cool $315 million, got some of the TFB staff thinking what gun companies they would buy if they won. The first thing I would do if I won [Read More…]
TFB’s resident South American gun expert Ronaldo Olive sent us these photos of a Colt M16A2 Commando (Model RO735B) owned by the Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (the Rio de Janeiro State Military Police). The upper receiver has been blown apart, the [Read More…]
Each year the National Shooting Sports Foundation surveys FFL retailers around the country to see what products are the biggest sellers and what demographics are buying guns. The highlights from the latest survey are … For the third year in a row, the number of [Read More…]
Rob Curtis got the scoop on a new SIG Personal Defense Weapon. The SIG MCX, as Rob speculated it will be named, is the big brother to their recently launched SIG MPX pistol-caliber carbines. Internally all we know is that it uses a AR-15 style rotating bolt and a [Read More…]
The Inteliscope is a picatinny mount for the iPhone which unlike, other phone picatinny mounts which we have blogged about before that mount a smartphone for use as a ballistic heads up display, allows the phone to be used as a digital scope. An app for the phone [Read More…]
Nick Chen emailed me about a nifty camera mount called the Swivl that, using infra-red, can track people as they move about, making it perfect for shooting video downrange without putting a cameraman in harm’s way. Nick wrote … It is a small base that you [Read More…]
Forbes has published an article about some of the modifications and upgrades that the 3D printing community have made to the open source DefCad Liberator Pistol. Andy Greenberg writes … Travis Lerol, a 30-year-old former military software engineer in Glen Burnie, [Read More…]
Trijicon has announced thier first VCOG riflescope. The VCOG (Variable Combat Optical Gunsight) is a zoom scope, in contrast to their famous ACOG line of combat scopes which have a fixed magnification. The first VCOG will be a 1-6x power with a 24mm objective lens. A [Read More…]
The Daily Mail has published a few interesting photos of guns used by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF … who did you think the title referred to?) in the Philippines. One of the guns, an M16, caught the eye of a TFB reader. The barrel is a little strange, [Read More…]
When browsing TFB today I noticed that we are running an advertisement for a new ammo tracker website called WikiArms. They have a very simple layout, which I like, and seem to be updating pricing about every 10 minutes. Disclaimer: There are some that don’t [Read More…]
Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), have acquired the Caliber Company for $315 Million. The Caliber Company is the parent company of Savage Sports Corporation. From the press release … ARLINGTON, Va., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ATK (NYSE: ATK) announced it has [Read More…]
Indie game developer Wolfire has developed a FPS shooter where things like reloading involve having to issue separate commands for each action that would be required in real life to operate the guns. For example, reloading a 1911 pistol involves issuing a command to [Read More…]
Unique-ARs are a new company which offer handguard making services. They will manufacture custom AR-15 handguard to your specifications. If you want a red handguard with a communist hammer and sickle design, no problem, they can do it (and have done it!). If you are not [Read More…]
In the 6 weeks since his last video, Rick has gotten some serious tactical tattoos.
