Good morning suppressor freaks and geeks, and welcome to the 50th edition of TFB’s Silencer Saturday. Thank you for stopping by to read my decibel rants every week – without you guys the series would have been dead by episode four. Last week we discussed the [Read More…]
Today we’re taking a look at the Barrett that never was, the XM109 AMPR. Originally known as the Objective Sniper Weapon (OSW), the XM109 now bears the designation Anti-Material Payload Rifle (AMPR). Using the existing lower receiver from the M82/M107 rifle, [Read More…]
Good evening everyone and thanks for joining us back here for another episode of TFB’s Silencer Saturday. As we charge full speed towards the holidays, we’ll spend some time discussing ways to spend your end of the year money on NFA gifts for friends, family or even [Read More…]
B&T USA has been awarded a contract to supply the Westchester, NY Police Department with integrally suppressed semi automatic carbines. And yes, Westchester’s new APC9-SD carbines take Glock mags. The APC9-SD is a 9x19mm semi automatic carbine with a 146 mm [Read More…]
Our friends at the American Suppressor Association are entering the last hours of their $15K raffle and membership drive. Join the ASA to support the legal and responsible use of silencers as well as helping to spread the joys of quieter shooting among American gun [Read More…]
Do you drive a Prius? Looking for an exciting new mod to spice up your daily commute? How about a 20mm M61 Vulcan Cannon? The team at Black Rifle Coffee Company have shared their latest project – a Toyota Prius with a mod that probably voids the manufacturers [Read More…]
In the early 1900s Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the inventor of the Maxim gun, began developing early suppressors which he christened ‘silencers’. It wasn’t long before the US Army took interest in these new silencers and began testing them. The US Army [Read More…]
A Brief Overview Three years ago a batch of Dead Air Sandman silencers arrived at my local gun shop. It was clear in only a matter of minutes that these would be a game changer for the quick detach silencer market. Dead Air Sandman silencers have no barrel length [Read More…]
The Istanbul based ATA Arms brought out their 40x46mm BA40 standalone and UBGL grenade launcher to the show in Indo Defence 2018 this year. The launcher is the first such design from ATA Arms, which actually won a major contract this year for 8,000 launchers from the [Read More…]
Hello fellow pewpew lovers and thank you for joining us here at TFB’s Silencer Saturday, where the only thing better than leftover turkey sandwiches are discount silencers and fast Form 4 approvals. Speaking of which, this week I have put together a Holiday Deals [Read More…]
When I visited GSL Technology they had a few projects they were working on. At the time I could not post about them since they were still works in progress or they were waiting on patent pending like the GSL Technology Boss emergency suppressor. One of their other [Read More…]
Today we’re taking a closer look at the General Dynamics GAU-19. Originally called the GECAL 50, this electrically driven gatling gun chambered in 50 bmg entered the design phase in 1982 at General Electric. Originally the design called for six barrels, instead [Read More…]
The RPD was the culmination of Soviet light machine gun designs that began with the DP-28 of pre-World War Two days, and ending with the RPD, or Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova. It was a lightweight, belt-fed from a drum, gas operated machine gun chambered in the Soviet M43 7.62x39mm cartridge. Some [Read More…]
In this article you will meet a brand new Romanian Cugir WS1-63SB chambered in 7.62×39 mm. The rifle is available for just a little short of 900 Euro or roughly 1 000 US Dollars in Germany. Step by step it will transform, like Dracula, into an AK47 Short Barrel [Read More…]
A corrupt border officer has been prosecuted for attempting to smuggle drugs and firearms into the UK. A joint operation involving the UK’s Metropolitan police, National Crime Agency and French police arrested two other men in connection to the smuggling. The [Read More…]
Hello everyone and thanks for reading TFB’s Silencer Saturday, where only good boy and girls get NFA toys. This week officially marks the beginning of the 2018 Holiday Season. With Thanksgiving Day and the dreaded (or glorious) Black Friday following just hours later, [Read More…]
The 40x46mm low-velocity SL40 grenade launcher has been in Australian Defence Force service for some time now, serving primarily as a modular under-barrel grenade launcher attached to the 5.56x45mm NATO F90 service rifle within the infantry at the squad or section [Read More…]
Schrombo from Germany continues to deliver another interesting project, this time in 300 Blackout. This project is also an example of how different Gun Laws can be from nation to nation, state to state. DOLOS sounds like a disease you really don’t want to get, but [Read More…]
Welcome back everyone and thanks again for joining us here for TFB’s Silencer Saturday, where we hope to one day be the silent majority. Today we we we touch on the regulatory, legal and yes political (gasp) challenges of shooting quietly. And ultimately what options [Read More…]
The Burmese state-owned arms manufacturing wing Ka pa sa Industries (Defence Industries) has a long history of working within limited resources to meet the operational requirements of the Tatmadaw (Burmese Military). Operationally this has been seen in the cycle of [Read More…]
Can we all agree that paying a $200 tax and waiting six to nine months to cut a rifle barrel from 16.1 inches to 14.5 inches is extremely ridiculous? Yet, if you live in the United States, legally making a rifle with short barrel requires an application process that [Read More…]
GSL Tech posted this photo of an old Gemtech Raptor. As you may recall Greg Latka of GSL Tech was the one who designed and manufactured most of Gemtech’s suppressors when he was President of Gemtech. This Gemtech Raptor has seen over 1 million rounds and no longer [Read More…]
Griffin Armament have launched their latest offering, the Paladin 5. The latest instalment of the Paladin series the 5 is a .22 calibre suppressor rather for everything from .22LR to .22-250 Remington. The Paladin 5 is user serviceable and weighs just 12.5oz, with a [Read More…]
A combined operation between Australian Border Force and the Western Australia Police has arrested a man for having more than 20 illegally owned firearms, including a .50 calibre machine gun. Australian Border Force officers intercepted a package from Slovenia carrying [Read More…]
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us for TFB’s Silencer Saturday, where the NFA repeatedly punishes us for trying to prevent noise pollution. This week we will take a brief look at the Sig Sauer SRD762TI-QD suppressor – a tubeless, quick [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James brings you another year of nonsensical Halloween pumpkin pounding, but this time we’ve got plenty of machine guns to assist with properly celebrating this holiday. A very special thanks to DJ Deville for allowing us to use this killer blend of the Halloween [Read More…]
In what is probably one of the coolest historical recreations to happen at a national machine gun shoot in recent years, the folks from the Bomber Camp program out of Stockton Aviation Field Museum actually got a Sperry Ball Turret (as used on the prolific B17 and B24 [Read More…]
Fantail Fire – the subject of Today’s Photo Of The Day here at TFB. The aft close-in weapons system on the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima reminds me of R2D2 in Star Wars. A close-in weapon system, or CIWS for short, is a point-defense weapon [Read More…]
At the end of the past year, we reported about the merger of James D. Julia auction house with Morphy Auctions. The former became the division of the latter. That’s why the online catalogs of their firearm auctions are now hosted on Morphy Auctions website. I was [Read More…]
Last time I visited GSL Technology they had some items that were not yet ready for public announcement. Their Boss emergency suppressor was one of them. Well they have just decided to offer their Pill Box suppressor to the public for the first time. The Pill Box Origin [Read More…]
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