Happy Friday listeners and readers. As we get ready to celebrate the unofficial end of Summer, I thought we should cap off GLOCK week (retro P80 and updated slimline guns) with our SHOT show interview with product manager Jacob Witten. In this episode, we talked about [Read More…]
As hunting season approaches Hawke Optics has unveiled its latest offering to the Straight-Wall, Slug, and Muzzleloader gun optics scene. The Hawke Vantage IR scope is a 3-9x40IR scope which is said to bring more accuracy to your muzzleloaders and other hunting guns. [Read More…]
As you may know, Heckler & Koch is under new ownership. The Luxembourg-based financial holding company, Compagnie de Développement de l’Eau (CDE), took a majority stake in the company earlier this year. Today they release their first official press release and [Read More…]
Welcome back dear readers (and listeners) to our latest installment of TFB’s Behind The Gun podcast featuring informative conversations with firearms industry leaders and experts in their field. Today we welcome our friends at SureFire, Andrew Wright and George [Read More…]
It’s no secret that the gun industry is going through a massive period of high demand right now. Regardless of the reasons for this increase in demand a lot of you are probably looking to buy more guns or perhaps, your first gun. The problem here is that while [Read More…]
Timnney Triggers is offering 10 lucky people the chance to become beta testers for its latest offering. Timney Triggers is offering up a replacement trigger for Heckler & Koch and PTR HK91-type rifle platforms. The HK91 Replacement Trigger looks to be a drop-in [Read More…]
If you’ve ever shopped for gun stuff for more than a few seconds, chances are pretty good that you’ve come across Primary Arms. What started as a small budget optics maker has spent the last thirteen years growing into one of the firearms industry’s [Read More…]
Viridian Weapon Technologies has been in business for a little over fourteen years. In that time, they have grown from offering a green aiming laser for pistol-mounted applications to providing a broad spectrum of weapon-mounted lasers and other accessories, as well as [Read More…]
Welcome back to TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast series – today we are joined by Zach Hein from CZ-USA. We took a brief summer hiatus but we are back with conversations with more firearms industry leaders. There are a few additional interviews from SHOT Show 2020 [Read More…]
Horyzen Tactical is an Australian company based in Melbourne, Victoria. They specialize in creating Kydex holders for magazines, and other shooting accessories. Horyzen Tactical have recently released their first pistol magazine carrier called the Universal 9/40. The [Read More…]
This episode of TFBTV is an interview with SIG Sauer where James Reeves asks Tom Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer at SIG, these 20-ish questions that Patreon and SubscribeStar supporters mailed in. James nerds out in this interview and Tom gives us the details on the SIG MPX (maybe in 10mm?), The [Read More…]
We live in interesting financial times. Though unemployment is reaching record levels, firearms and ammo purchases have skyrocketed. It has become exceedingly difficult to find most common gun industry products in stock, and what little stock there is typically [Read More…]
Aquila International, LLC, a US Defense contractor, have announced that they will provide Daniel Defense rifles to various Argentine military organisations. Aquila are the South American distributors for Daniel Defense and have been awarded contracts to supply the [Read More…]
The Italian ammunition manufacturer, Fiocchi, is looking to expand its operations in the US with a new manufacturing facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new Little Rock plant will operate alongside Fiocchi’s current facility in Ozark, Missouri. Fiocchi [Read More…]
A few weeks ago we covered how Remington appeared to be preparing to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy a second time. It turns out that everything except for the buyout by Navajo Nation came to pass over the past couple of months which saw a massive spike in gun sales amid [Read More…]
Many of you will be familiar with the CAA MCK or Micro Conversion Kit for Glock and SIG Sauer pistols. Essentially the MCK takes your handgun and places it inside a stabilizing frame to give you better stability for sport and target shooting. The MCK P80 is now [Read More…]
A Luxembourg-based financial holding company, Compagnie de Développement de l’Eau (CDE), which has been shareholders in Heckler & Koch AG for a number of years, has taken over a majority stake in the company. HK returned to profit in 2019 for the first time [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV filmed at Thunder Ranch, James Reeves interviews legendary trainer and good friend, Clint Smith, about his five favorite guns. Clint taps into a half-century of firearms training experience and his personal preferences to tell TFBTV viewers which guns he loves the most. [Read More…]
Hey everyone and thanks for joining us for the latest installment of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast featuring our friends Jordan Wilson and Mike O’Dell from CMMG. Growing from an internet parts seller to a firearms industry powerhouse in just a few years, CMMG is [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV – part of the “TFBTV Goes to Hollywood” series – James Reeves visits Larry Zanoff of Independent Studio Services to talk about the REAL gun (or guns, as it turns out) used by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Larry talks about the origin of the gun, how [Read More…]
As much as I would like to relocate all social media to the burning dumpster fire part of the internet and close the door, for businesses it can be their main channel of communication with potential customers. Unwelcome guests that we are, our gun-loving thoughts, ideas [Read More…]
In 2019 TFB reported about ongoing changes at Cobalt Kinetics, from starting to manufacture a line of 1911 derivatives to ceasing the production of AR-15 models. On top of this, the company also cooperated with MARS Inc. to, unsuccessfully, compete in the US Army NGSW [Read More…]
Although I don’t have a Federal Firearms License (FFL), I thoroughly appreciate the industry information and analysis from the professionals at Orchid Advisors. Already providing a suite of solutions to help FFL’s take care of business, Orchid Advisors and our [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves takes you behind the scenes at ISS, Independent Studio Services, for the making of the gun from Pirates of the Caribbean. A lot of work goes into making and using the black powder firearms from movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, and Larry Zanoff of ISS [Read More…]
Many of us started our passion through firearms as hunting during our youth years. Some of those experiences would have been incredible to capture on camera – let alone to have a professional cameraman follow some of our crazy exploits. Well, with Hosted Hunts [Read More…]
Welcome back to another episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast where we take a behind-the-scenes look at the firearms industry. Today we talk with Jeremy Gresham, Director of Sales and Marketing at Israel Weapon Industries (IWI). Jeremy and IWI have been our friends [Read More…]
It appears that what many of us were predicting finally happened yesterday: GLOCK Gen4 guns are no longer being produced in favor of the Gen5 GLOCK pistols. Residents of California and other more restrictive states have nothing to fear: the Gen3 GLOCKs will continue to [Read More…]
Virtually any institution with a history spanning more than two centuries is almost certain to experience its fair share of ups and downs over those many years. America’s oldest gun maker, the Remington Arms Company, is no exception. Since its founding by [Read More…]
For anyone looking into a career in the firearms industry, Ruger is now hiring multiple positions throughout seven locations across the United States. There’s a wide range of positions Ruger is currently hiring for, such as Production Associates, Industrial Tech [Read More…]
Last week we saw the peculiar experience of John Rigby & Co. during the British lockdown, now we have a look at another great firm from London: James Purdey & Sons. Here we’re invited to stay safe at home (yeah, we may have heard it already…) and we [Read More…]
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