Ruger (NYSE-RGR) has issued a safety bulletin for Ruger Precision Rifles in a specified serial number range. Please note that this is NOT a recall, but a safety bulletin that only affects SOME Ruger Precision Rifles. Rifles that have a polymer bolt shroud are not [Read More…]
Heckler & Koch, Germany, have been renaming their weapon systems. It’s been going on for a while and I’ve been trying to decipher this ever since I saw some of the new HK firearms at Enforce Tac 2017, Germany. Could there be errors in my list? Yes, [Read More…]
Josh Brolin is portraying the Marvel character Cable in Deadpool 2. Recently photos were posted of Brolin in costume and he is seen carrying a KRISS Vector. However it looks like a KRISS Vector after a mall ninja had his way with it. As you can see in the photo above [Read More…]
Thumbing through my Instagram feed a few weeks ago, I came across an interesting post by our friends at The Armory Blog. Originating at the sub-reddit r/3gun, the above image is a MAG Tactical aluminum and Magnesium hybrid lower which was originally advertised as being [Read More…]
Sticking with the simplistic-functionality theme, the Catalyst Arms team has just released the Leg Locking Levers for the Harris Bipod. Slipping over the knurled leg adjustments, the levers are used to quickly and easily adjust each leg individually using one hand. In [Read More…]
News footage from a Kurdistan24 television crew, and overhead drone footage taken from a so-called Islamic State propaganda video both show a so-called IS attack in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where Kurdish SDF forces are battling the rebel group with the support of the United States. Driving heavily [Read More…]
We recently wrote about MBW STOCKS from Poland and their Ruger 10/22 stock kit with parts from the AK47. Founded in 2017 MBW Stocks have not been around for long, but they make wooden stocks for various firearms. They claim to be focused on quality and use only [Read More…]
My friend Andrew H. is building a clone of the Knight’s M110 rifle and this is the suppressor that goes with it. Size matters and in this case the Knight’s M110 is rather virile. Here is the M110 SASS rifle. Here it is with the suppressor [Read More…]
The US Army has released a solicitation for a new 7.62mm infantry rifle to replace the M4. The Interim Combat Service Rifle program, known to be in the works since April of this year, would replace M4 Carbines in use with combat units with a new weapon in the 7.62x51mm [Read More…]
It isn’t a secret that the standard collapsible stock on an AR-15 can be a bit on the weak side thanks to the pin that holds the stock in place. If you have ever had to mortar your rifle to clear a malfunction and forgot to collapse the stock you know what can [Read More…]
Greyboe – moving from McMillan’s offshoot to its own stand-alone enterprise – has been hard at work getting new products out the market. Originally launching with their “Renegade” and “Outlander” stocks, the [Read More…]
Sureshot Armament Group is working on a project of chambering an SVD rifle in .300 Win Mag. Initially, this was just a project for them. However, according to the company’s officials, the amount of interest towards the project may eventually lead them to sell the [Read More…]
Recently, my local FFL and Range held a Range Demo Day featuring products from Wilson Combat, Silencerco, Heckler & Koch, Blue Bullets, and Vortex Optics. I was Volunteering my time for the most part, but got to try some products at the end of the day. One of [Read More…]
The Magpul ACR stock seems to go well with almost any rifle. Polenar Tactical posted up this AK on their Instagram account and it is sporting an ACR stock. Here are some other popular examples of ACR stocks on non-ACR rifles. Which one do you think makes [Read More…]
With over 6 million Ruger 10/22 made it’s no surprise that there are several stock kits available. MBWSTOCKS from Pszczyna, Poland, has just added another option if you want to upgrade yours. What is extra cool with this one is that the under folding stock in [Read More…]
Elements of the Israeli Border Police, Yasam riot control unit and the Jereselum police force have been dealing with Palestinian protesters over the previous week in the vicinity of the Al Aqsa mosque over a dispute with security entrances that came about because of the [Read More…]
Have you ever wondered what it looks and sounds like when over 50 precision rifles open fire at a single target at the same time? In Finland they just tried this, and the video is now available for us to see. In less than half a second there are around 40 impacts on and [Read More…]
Initially losing to Simonov’s AVS36, Tokarev’s design was later retried and adopted as the SVT 38, later becoming the SVT 40 after the Finnish Winter War debacle that the Soviet Union found itself in, just prior to the Second World War. Very forward thinking in many aspects of the [Read More…]
Bergara Rifles is reporting that their new B-14 model is in high demand with the current shift in the gun market. What shift? The one where every retailer has put on their try hard pants and is doing their absolute best to move modern sporting rifles like the good [Read More…]
Yet another rebate to add to the Summer O’ Rebates, this time from KRISS USA. They have committed to give one free Vortex SPARC AR optic to everyone that buys a non-NFA KRISS Vector through an authorized reseller from now through September 30, 2017. Where some [Read More…]
While Richard already ran a story on the new Velocity Triggers Model 700 offering, there were no photos available at the time it was written. In order to give you guys a better look at the new option from Tom Vehr’s company. Velocity has quickly become known for [Read More…]
The Republic of Georgia’s state owned “State Military Scientific-Technical Center “Delta” has recently unveiled an entire line of body armor that was first fielded in 2016 by the Georgian Armed Forces in Afghanistan, and then later in the [Read More…]
This image of a rigged 7.62x39mm AKM has recently been making the rounds on social media, one of the first being the Twitter account of KufriusMaximus, a pro-Kurdish commentator. From what the chatter is telling us, the photograph is of an AKM recovered in the [Read More…]
Shooting subsonic ammunition in a properly suppressed host is a real eye opening event for the uninitiated. My first suggestion to anyone jumping into the silencer world is to pick a gun that can reliably run ammo specifically loaded to stay at around 1050 feet per [Read More…]
IDEF 2017 occurred in May of this year, but we missed this important Turkish development when it comes to ammunition. MKEK, the Turkish state-run armament company, and privately owned Aselsan signed agreements at IDEF 2017 to cooperate on the design and manufacture of [Read More…]
Politics aside I am sure there are some of you, like me, who are not well versed in older style firearms. Ignorantly I would assume all flint locks and “old timey” guns are all the same. However I am wrong and happy to learn more. This photo was shot by Oleg [Read More…]
The Best Damn Gun company announced that it was now offering a new chassis for the Remington Model 700 action. The new chassis is designed for the short action and follows on the heels of the long action version that was introduced at the 2017 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. [Read More…]
An integrally suppressed variant of the AK called the Gopak was on display a recent demonstration at the Goncharivske trial grounds in the Chernihiv area of Ukraine. In two videos released via YouTube this week, the rifle is demonstrated firing and being inspected by [Read More…]
Maxim Defense recently announced that the company was now making its CQB Stock for the SIG SAUER MPX and MCX platforms. This new stock is a variation of the existing CQB Stock that the company currently manufactures for the AR platform. The new stock weighs between [Read More…]
TOR (means fireball in one of the local languages) is a Venezuelan firearm designed by a gentleman named Fernan Altuve Febres. It was designed in 1995 and initially chambered in 5.6x36mm (a cartridge unknown to me). It was tested by Venezuelan paratroopers, tank and [Read More…]