I stumbled across this oddity. It is a Glock 21 with an odd looking muzzle brake and an H&K styled vertical grip typically seen on an MP5K. While I have seen some people try to add a vertical grip onto a Glock before, this one is different. It appears there is a [Read More…]
The team at Rebel Silencers have strung together six of their SOS-Hunter .308 suppressors to form what they are calling the longest suppressor in the world. In the video below you can see the yard stick-sized silencer hanging off the end of a bolt action test chassis. [Read More…]
Tom Bostic made this MP5SD for a friend. His friend already had an MP5SD in .40 cal so he wanted something a little different. I rarely build Roller locks but a buddy of mine wanted something that looked like it it should be in some futuristic space movie. He already [Read More…]
I know that I am not going to make any friends by writing this, but that never stopped me before, so why not? Here goes: Pistol caliber carbines don’t make a whole lot of sense for the American rifle buyer, or at least not most of the offerings on the market right [Read More…]
This video shows a small amount of firearms supposedly used by Russian Special Forces. They start right off with the folding machine gun PP-90. This appears to be a MP-443 “Grach” pistol. Stechkin Automatic Pistol (APS) Below is a [Read More…]
WWII warbirds have always interested me since I was a kid, I used to build model kits of P-51 Mustangs, Mitsubishi Zeros, Spitfires etc. A while back I posted a pretty cool video of the Twilight Tear, a P-51 Mustang test firing her six .50 caliber M2 Browning machine [Read More…]
I recently picked up my Osprey45 on Pi Day, 3/14/17. Strangely enough it is the same day I picked up my SpectreII suppressor from the same FFL back on 3/14/15. Well as soon as I got home with my Osprey 45, I began putting it on everything and making a variety of [Read More…]
Just like many countries around the world, Brazil also has its share of illegal guns being seized by police authorities, some of which have occasionally been shown in TFB and, even more often, in Impro Guns (https://homemadeguns.wordpress.com/). This example was [Read More…]
This past week a Serbian product, the 40mm/6 M11 made by Yugoimport SDPR J.P. was seen in use by the Safwa Islamic Brigade & Suqur al-Shamal opposition groups in northern Aleppo. The launcher isn’t very prevalent outside of Serbia and thus it’s [Read More…]
The VSK-94 is a rarely seen Russian semi-automatic precision rifle firing a 9x39mm cartridge from a heavily modified Kalashnikov receiver with an integral suppressor. The rifle was an attempt to make a cheaper version of the VSS Vintorez chambered in the same 9x39mm [Read More…]
TPM Outfitters recently came across a 1980’s Hensoldt light. Old school HK optic made by Hensoldt that projects light with a crosshair in the beam. It runs on 5 C batteries and weighs as much as the MP5 itself. Back in the day SAS ran Maglite flashlights ontop of [Read More…]
Steyr Arms took to Facebook last week to tease the upcoming release of “something big”. Displaying a picture of 300BLK ammunition and the signature charging handle of an iconic bullpup rifle, consumers can either assume that Steyr will be producing an [Read More…]
B&T USA has announced that the USW A1 is now blessed by the ATF for importation and sale in the United States. The tedious compliance process, required of all firearms entering US commerce, can take up to six months and includes a physical inspection of at least one [Read More…]
Manticore Arms and Preppers Gun Shop have teamed up to design and manufacture US-Made magazines for the CZ Scorpion. The mags hold 32 rounds and count as three parts towards 922r compliance if your Scorpion is configured as a short barreled rifle (SBR). The magazines [Read More…]
Jorge aka @silencers_1909 of Capitol Armory shows off his impressive suppressor collection and his Remington 870 storage space. It is one of those wooden pallet flags with a compartment hidden behind it. Here is the list of suppressors These are just his SilencerCo [Read More…]
If you’ve worked the pits at a high power rifle match you probably already know what it sounds like to be shot at from a distance. If you’ve been downrange for Uncle Sugar, you might also know. But thankfully, most folks don’t know what bullets sound [Read More…]
Thompson Machine is now offering an integrally suppressed 17 HMR rifle based on the Savage 93R. The Savage 93R is a bolt action rifle that comes in a variety of styles. One such variant comes with a threaded barrel. However, Thompson Machine decided to go with [Read More…]
Not long after SHOT Show, I got the chance to interview Mrs. Kori Phillips, former program officer for the Army’s Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program, and current program officer for the Cased Telescoped Small Arms Systems (CTSAS) program. We talked [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James investigates a rumor he heard emanating from the basement where the TFB writers are kept: Is the Walther PPK barrel too kurz to go supersonic? In other words, is the Walther PPK in .22 unable to accelerate even high velocity rounds to supersonic velocities? This is of [Read More…]
During TFB’s recent series of posts on Brazilian gun designer Nelmo Suzano (such as in https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/02/02/socimarte-bergom-phase-guns-nelmo-suzano/) , it was often mentioned that he was closely associated with a friend called Luiz Gonçalves [Read More…]
Yes you read that right. Iraqi soldiers are using a tactic from ISIS. They apparently have been using shuttlecocks on grenades. The shuttlecocks add stability to the grenades and improving their accuracy. From the photo below it looks like there is a custom adapter that [Read More…]
On an episode of R. Lee Ermey’s Gunny Time, Kirsten Joy Weiss was invited to come out and shoot some revolver grenade launchers with The Gunny. I got a chance to shoot a revolving grenade launcher M32A1 at SHOT Show 2016 Range Day. The 12 lbs weight is not [Read More…]
The US Army RDECOM published a YouTube video on the Picatinny Arsenal YouTube Page about Additive Manufacturing, which includes 3D printing, and the Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistics Ordnance or RAMBO Launcher. RAMBO, in this case, is fundamentally a 3D printed [Read More…]
Earlier we posted about Mark Serbu, his daughter Val, and a YouTuber called Dan shooting an MP5 from a Cessna circling above the Gulf of Mexico. The new stories let on that the police had been called by one of the wet blankets that help run the Peter O. Knight airport [Read More…]
On 9:th of March 2017, a 36-year old suspect was detained after an axe attack that injured nine persons in the main train station in Düsseldorf, Germany. One of the pictures that caught my attention was this FN SCAR-L Short with a 10″ barrel and an EOTech sight. [Read More…]
In a decision that could have broad implications throughout the silencer industry as well as with shooters/consumers, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATFE or ATF) has notified silencer manufacturer Dead Air Armament that the wipes used in their Ghost M [Read More…]
When taking a second look at my recent post (https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/12/07/brazils-pasams-mauser-schnellfeur-pistols-plus/) on the PASAM modified Mauser Schenellfeur selective-fire pistols used by PMERJ – Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro [Read More…]
For today’s POTD, I came across this photo of a Chinese Swat member using a Norinco NR08 MP5 clone. Back in 2010 we posted an article about the NR08. Click here to check it out.
In this episode of TFBTV, James and Patrick interview representatives of Battlefield Las Vegas and Heckler and Koch to get some basic information about the mysterious H&K MP7 Submachinegun. Of course, James and Patrick (as well as TFBTV’s camera guys, who had never shot a gun before SHOT [Read More…]
During the beginning of the year the SBU (The Security Service of Ukraine) managed to discover and stop channel smuggling of some very powerful illegal firearms. The gun traffickers seems to have had an acquired taste in both firearms and optics. For sure, this is not [Read More…]
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