These images were taken from a Chinese TV program about the Snow Leopard Commando Unit (SLCU, 雪豹突击队) training program. The Snow Leopards are a special police unit officially known as 3rd Group, 13th Detachment, People’s Armed Police Beijing General [Read More…]
Arsenal is calling it quits on the 5.56 NATO chambered AK. The SLR-106 line of rifles and pistols broke new ground when introduced nearly a decade ago, and remain popular among AK aficionados and those who want the toughness of the Kalashnikov platform and ammunition [Read More…]
Strike Industries emailed us CAD drawings and renderings of a prototype AR-15 grip they are working on. The grip attempts to solve middle finger pain associated with intense and prolonged magazine reload drills. When reloading an AR-15 or AK the middle finger takes up [Read More…]
Magpul announced a slew of new products last week, and I had a chance to examine them firsthand at the NRA show in Houston, Texas. Probably the most notable were the MBUS Pro backup sights made of metal, not Magpul’s signature polymer. At first I wasn’t sure [Read More…]
The new Arsenal/K-VAR SAM7K-02 is a new addition to the company’s line of AK-pattern pistols. This model uses an original Bulgarian handguard made of polymer with a built in flashlight. The flashlight runs on two CR 123 batteries. MSRP is $1499. [Read More…]
The Big 3 East in Florida is an expansion of the original Big 3 event held at Kansas every Fall. Both events were started by writers for writers. The Big 3 stands for Tactical gun, Tactical gear and Tactical training. All the companies and writers were handpicked and [Read More…]
The fertile minds at Defense Distributed have announced the existence of The Feinstein Mag. Available for free download from their website at defcad.org, The Feinstein Mag is not a [Read More…]
TAPCO is making a smooth-sided version of the company’s INTRAFUSE AK-47 magazine. The mags hold 30 rounds of 7.62×39 ammunition and are modeled after the Bulgarian steel magazines that have a similar appearance. The magazines are polymer with an anti-tilt [Read More…]
TFB reader Chris as unhappy with the mil-spec wire stock his Tantal rifle was supplied with so he modded it up bending the stock down and adding a cheek weld. Quite a nifty mod if you ask me! Chris wrote on the TFB Facebook page … The original Tantal stock has [Read More…]
Rail and mount maker Samson Manufacturing has filed for bankruptcy in order to avoid paying a $933,000 court judgement awarded to their competitor Troy. Troy had sued Samson for using trade secrets covered by a confidentiality agreement to make competing products. [Read More…]
Arsenal has redesigned the muzzle brake on their SLR-106UR AK-style pistol. The new design make it easier to fire one-handed. From the press release … This redesign puts Arsenal’s muzzle break among the most efficient within the firearms industry and stays in [Read More…]
Vice has produced a 30 minute documentary on Cody R Wilson’s quest to develop a 3D printed AR-15. Much of the documentary is political in nature, but it has enough [Read More…]
The bodyguard of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un have been photographed with enormous helical magazines on their AK rifles. The round capacity could be anywhere between 75-150 rounds. I cannot identify the rifles. They are probably North Korea’s domestically [Read More…]
Izhmash will debut the long anticipated Saiga MK-107 at the IWA show in Germany tomorrow. This gun is the first ever civilian-legal variant of the AK-107 / AK-108 with its famous balanced recoil system. The balanced recoil system moves a counter weight forward when [Read More…]
