TFB’s favorite German garage gun inventor is back with another devilishly clever device. It’s well known that the Beretta 92FS’s slide-mounted safety lever has a serious drawback: When the slide is racked vigorously, it is very easy for the safety to [Read More…]
As we learned in a recent TFB article, Accuarcy International (AI) is one of the leading suppliers of sniper rifles to various armed forces. We have no statistics, perhaps no one has, but the brand seems to be the preferred or at least a very popular choice. In the user [Read More…]
It seems that for the first time ever, Germany is going to get a more permissive gun law. As an Amendment of the Federal Hunting Act comes into force, it is now legal to hunt even with 20 round (perhaps even more?) magazine if you put only 3 rounds in. This is even [Read More…]
The Vintorez is a suppressed rifle currently in use by a number of Russian Special Operations units. It was used extensively in the Chechen conflict, in addition to popping up in Syria as well. It fires a special 9x39mm SP5 cartridge in addition to an armored piercing [Read More…]
If you looked at this photograph and thought to yourself, “This looks like a 40x46mm Low Velocity grenade launcher, but it is unlike any launcher currently used by any Military/LE force”, then you’d be halfway to a solid conclusion. However if you are [Read More…]
Wilson Combat has introduced a new finish for their firearms called Combat-Tuff. It is essentially a two stage Armor-Tuff finish, which allows reaching that distressed, well-used look. The application process involves multiple coats of their Armor-Tuff spray-on coating [Read More…]
TFB avoided clickbaiting during the election. I even killed a number of grey-area stories that my team wanted to write. This resulted in us conceding a lot of traffic to our competitors, but I could hardly claim we are not about politics if we suddenly become [Read More…]
There are about 58 million people living in the England and Wales (excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland.) As most know, it’s not the friendliest place on Earth for owning firearms. Especially the 1997 Firearms Act, and amendments, were devastating news for [Read More…]
Red Oktober is an entirely Kalashnikov themed competition that took place at Southern Utah Practical Shooting Range in St. George, Utah. It was primarily by Rifle Dynamics, along with a number of other industry sponsors that all pitched in to really support the two day [Read More…]
Dead Air Armament is a Utah based company that makes a number of suppressors for a variety of platforms to include rifles, handguns, and shotguns. We’re written some posts about the company but haven’t been able to get this in-depth with one of their [Read More…]
Sabrewerks has been making a very indigenous optics mount that replaces the Kalashnikov factory rear sight blocks. The initial unit requires some gunsmithing or least knowledge of complete Kalashnikov disassembly (removing the OEM rear sight block). Once this is [Read More…]
Brownells has been a trusted source for gunsmithing supplies, gun parts and more recently ammunition. Brownells has been serving the shooting community for over 75 years. Earlier this year they dipped their toes into the gun market when they opened their 7,000 sq. [Read More…]
Inland Manufacturing posted on their Facebook page pictures of their new Inland T3 rifle. It is a reproduction of M1 Carbine with T3 scope mount, also known as T3 Carbine. They’ve developed this rifle based on huge customer request of a scoped version of the M1 [Read More…]
France has just adopted the HK416 as its new standard infantry rifle, replacing the FAMAS, and Germany is on a path to a new weapon, aiming to divest herself of the controversial G36. This raises the question: Will Germany and France adopt a unified arm? These two [Read More…]
Circle 10 AK showcased their line of muzzle brakes and flash suppressors at Red Oktober this year. In regards to their muzzle brakes, the company makes two thread sizes, 14mm for standard Kalashnikov muzzle threading, and 24mm for AK74 or a number of AKSU inspired [Read More…]
Joe Firearms is a Utah based company that specializes in outfitting Kalashnikov rifles in addition to offering their own line of AJAK-47 and AJAK-74 rifles. Most significant is their flared magazine well that is welded to the receiver, their extended magazine releases, [Read More…]
We first wrote about Kalashnicohn in 2014, when the small company began introducing their pistol caliber AKs. Compared to a number of larger manufacturers bringing the platform to market, Kalashnicohn has encountered a successful selling point considering that the [Read More…]
This is not a political post of any sort: it’s always interesting to study arms and ammunition sales just ahead of any United States presidential election. At least it might give you some explanation as to why your order isn’t shipping. I remember the last [Read More…]
The new rave seems to be producing the best hollow point or defense handgun round possible. A flurry of companies have re-engineered their staple offerings and new competitors continue to emerge to the market. Names that come to mind are the Ruger ARX… Sig Sauer [Read More…]
Berger announced on the 1st of the month their introduction of 3 new bullets into the Classic Hunter line. The Classic Hunter bullet from Berger, for those who are not familiar, is meant to be a highly accurate reloading tip that effectively feeds from a magazine. It [Read More…]
Monsieur Benjamin Gineste (France) has successfully shot a target at 4150 meters, or 4540 yards. He used a .408 CheyTac caliber rifle, with a scope mounted in an extreme 270 MOA inclination. From what I can understand from the french press release he fired 12 rounds and [Read More…]
So the Internet seem to have gone mental with the release of the HERA Arms CQB stock and front grip. To complicate things further, there were a few random pictures released filling up my social media flow. Was it the HERA once again, or another concept? They looked very [Read More…]
A particularly unusual variant of the Vz61 Machine pistol has arrived in the Great White North. A newly manufactured (no milsurp parts) short barreled rifle from Czech Small Arms (CSA) chambered in the universally popular .22 rimfire has seen a limited release across [Read More…]
With day one of the SAINT media event out of the way, we met back up at the Paris hotel’s valet at 8 am and loaded back up in the Springfield vehicles. A short drive later we pulled up at Pro Gun Club Vegas clubhouse for breakfast. Next up was a quick briefing by [Read More…]
The Polish firearms company Fabrykę Broni has brought their redesigned 40x46mm Low Velocity Under Barrel Grenade Launcher to the public. The company had a previous 40mm UBGL that incorporated a slanted grip with the trigger almost underneath the muzzle of the grenade [Read More…]
After weeks of advertisements, videos, and other vague references to the Springfield Armory SAINT the anticipation has to be killing you, or at the very least driving you a bit crazy. After I threw up my hastily written sneak peek, some of the theories I saw in the [Read More…]
FAB-Defense from Israel just launched a bi-pod support. This time it’s a product for both AR15 and AK47 / AKM users. The AR-podium includes the AGR-43 pistol grip and the Podium bi-pod. The AK-Podium is called AGR-47, and also includes the pistol grip and the [Read More…]
A source has told TFB that the New Zealand Defense Force will soon be announcing the adoption of the Barrett M82 for use as an anti-material rifle and the Sako TRG M10, chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum, as a long range sniper rifle. Our source, who has not led us [Read More…]
A Ukrainian company has introduced a series of wrist mounted sighting systems to be attached to various small arms and viewed through an LCD screen on a shooters wrist for shooting around obstacles without exposing the shooter. Their smallest unit is designed for short [Read More…]
At the recent European IPSC Hangdun Championship in Hungary, Italian Tanfoglio had a booth to support its customers (thanks very much for the spare extractor, my gun ran without problems the last 2 days). They also showed some improvements and news, like the Tanfoglio [Read More…]