My friend TC posted this photo of his display. It looks clean and professional. What you are looking at is a DIY weapon display he made. It is just peg board that he painted silver. Fooled me. I thought it was metal sheets with holes. And to top it all off, those are [Read More…]
Back in 2011, TFP published a “reader” Ronaldo Olive contribution (https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/02/11/fmap-dm-cam-1-the-argentine-stg44-clone/) on CAM 1, the Argentine copy of the WWII German Sturmgewehr assault rifle granddad made in that South American [Read More…]
KE Arms, producer of the DMR Trigger, has licensed the manufacturing and distribution rights for the patent pending Sear Link Technology trigger system from M&M Manufacturing. Before this release, the SLT-1 was tested with tens of thousands of rounds in traditional [Read More…]
I have been eyeing the the light and laser combos from Steiner for the better part of a year but have yet to pull the trigger. Sadly, my night vision fund is much too deficient to take advantage of a visible light/laser and IR illuminator/laser device. The newest [Read More…]
The US Army’s M17 Modular Handgun System, derived from the SIG P320 handgun, has crossed one of the final hurdles on the track to full replacement of previous service handguns (including chiefly the Beretta M9). The United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force [Read More…]
Recently we’ve been looking at a number of high-profile developments that came out of Special Operations Executive. Namely the infamous Welrod and Welwyn suppressed devices, and the Norm and Welgun experimental submachine guns. In this video, we take a look at some of the much lesser-known [Read More…]
One of the more captivating and fascinating designs to come out of Russia in the past several decades, the 5.45x39mm AN-94 has recently been covered in great detail by Ian of Forgotten Weapons, in conjunction with Armament Research Services on The Hoplite Blog. If you have a chance, go over to The [Read More…]
Recent photographs out of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib show a thorough manufacture of improvised anti-material rifles, all in 14.5mm. Local gunsmiths in the rebel-held city appear to be using the discarded barrels of 14.5mm KPV heavy machine guns, of an [Read More…]
The S&S Precision Holster Extender Gear Retention Track (GRT) is a three position adjustable belt adapter for a duty holster. Depending on your gear and your needs you may want your holster to be lower than your belt line. You can get offset spacers to drop the [Read More…]
Aklys Defense is owned by Joe Meaux. You may recognize the name and face from the Sons of Guns show. Well at the NRA Annual Meeting, the brought out a new suppressed gun just in time for the show. Their latest product is a modified Ruger 22/45. It uses their Kopis .22LR [Read More…]
it seems that the flat faced trigger is growing in popularity so fast that Apex is burning the midnight oil and rolling out new triggers at a breakneck pace. Thanks to our sponsors: Proxibid – Shop For Home Defense Pistols Online Here Ventura Munitions – Retailer of quality ammunition. [Read More…]
Axon, formerly known as Taser International, is now offering an instructor certification program for the commercial market. Called the Civilian Training Program, the course is a train the trainer style of instruction that allows instructors to teach non-law enforcement [Read More…]
We saw how well the MagPump loader worked at SHOT Range Day but didn’t really get the chance to show you guys how it worked. Thankfully Patrick ran across their booth at NRA 2017 so you can have a closer look. Thanks to our sponsors: Proxibid – Thousands Of Guns At Auction On [Read More…]
While at NRA Annual Meetings we ran into a couple of fans that had some of the nicest products in their respective areas of the industry. Blue Alpha Gear makes some of the nicest web gun belts in the industry for much less than the “cool guy approved” companies sell theirs for. They [Read More…]
Accura Outdoors makes plated bullets but it was their folding USPSA style cardboard target that caught my attention. Their design does not require staples. So far they have not experienced one blowing off the stand due to wind. These are not competition sanctioned due [Read More…]
We are pushing out a quick post in support of our friends at Breach Bang Clear and Soldier Systems. This notebook went missing at the NRA Annual Meetings today and it obviously has sentimental value to its well respected owner, Dave Reeder. Several rewards have been [Read More…]
NCStar and VISM makes some unique products for people on a budget. However there was a diamond in the rough here at the NRA Annual Meeting and it is their Glock magazine dissassembly tool. It is cast in metal and makes removing the base plate off a Glock effortless. The [Read More…]
Mean Arms is the genius behind the clever workaround of fixed magazine for California compliance. In California you have two options to stay legal with your AR-15 and not register. Either have a featureless rifle which maintains the removable magazine but no pistol [Read More…]
Radian Weapons has one of their rifles on display at the Brownell’s Booth. Luckily Nick Booras of Radian was there to explain and share some info about Radian Weapons. Some of you may or may not have heard of AXTS. But I am sure many of you know of the Rainier [Read More…]
Pachmayr has introduced an accessory which is designed to help to rack a semi-auto pistol slide. It is called RACK-IT. It mounts on the front portion of the pistol slide and provides a better gripping surface to manipulate the slide. Inside of this device, there is a [Read More…]
Springfield Armory officially debuted the new Springfield Armory XD-E today at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Springfield XD-E is a slimline 9mm pistol that features a manual safety and a hammer. Hammer and a safety? Yes! Springfield chose to [Read More…]
Chip McCormick of CMC Mags has been designing 1911 pistol magazines for decades. His latest development of the 1911 magazine is pretty interesting. What makes these mags different is the design of the feed lips. As you can see in the images, the metal in feed lip area [Read More…]
A brief introduction to one of the most accurate, over-built service pistols of all time – the 9mm SIG P210. This particular one is a very early pre-commercial P49 version, issued to the Swiss Army from about 1950 until the mid-70’s when it started to be displaced by the P220 / P75. [Read More…]
As much as people want to shun the FN 509 for being yet another polymer framed striker gun that is easy to overlook the hidden greatness, Brink’s saw the benefit in the new plastic wonder gun. The adoption of the FN 509 by Brink’s marks the first major [Read More…]
CZ-USA has announced that the new CZ Striker gun, the P10C, has just landed on US shores as of yesterday evening. This means that in just a few short days they will be on their way to dealers all over the US. Expect them to be rather hard to find, but they will be out [Read More…]
This new AR-15 trigger introduced by Viking Tactics is actually a collaboration of VTac with TriggerTech and Christensen Arms. Logos of all three companies are engraved on the trigger housing. The new trigger is called Truss because its appearance resembles one. As you [Read More…]
Eric Norman was one of the small arms designers at Special Operations Executive Station IX during the Second World War. The Norm Gun and Welgun were two of his designs that although never reached serial production, are interesting in their own right day, if anything due to their simplicity of [Read More…]
Among the dazzling amount of weapons displayed at the LAAD 2017 Defence & Security exhibition in Rio de Janeiro (April 4-7), a lesser-known name called the attention in the South African Pavilion, the Rippel Effect, a privately-owned military equipment and systems [Read More…]
When nauseating substances hit the fan, as it most often happens in civil riots and similar manifestations, LE forces have to count on whatever equipment items that may help them to deal with the very complicated process of applying progressive use of force, or the [Read More…]
The Safariland Group announced it will show new concealed carry holster options at the National Rifle Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta. The new rigs will be offered under the company’s Safariland and Bianchi brands. Here is a quick overview of some of the [Read More…]