Muzzleloader firm Knight Rifles is back in business after ceasing production last year. The press release says it all … Athens, TN: On March 15, 2010, PI, Inc., acquired the Knight Rifles brand, intellectual properties and real estate in Centerville, Iowa. For the [Read More…]
Jim Shepherd writes about the decline in gun sales (scroll down the page to see the article)… Over the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing – quietly- of cutbacks, layoffs and other “right-sizing” going on at companies where extra shifts were [Read More…]
Another industry lawsuit is over … Portland, OR (Vocus) March 25, 2010 — Leupold & Stevens, Inc. has dropped its lawsuit* against Carl Zeiss Optical, Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges that Zeiss and two other defendants infringe on a [Read More…]
I was checking out my blog statistics and noticed that the Bushmaster ACR is no longer the biggest search term used to find The Firearm Blog. The current champion is the HK416. Why? It is featured on the game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 which was launched a few weeks [Read More…]
Vltor Weapons Systems and Magpul have settled the rifle stock patent lawsuit.
My buddy over at Extreme Tolerance found this photo on Facebook. It purportedly shows a list of upcoming Magpul products and their launch date. If this is real it will be confirmed as soon as one of those upcoming products is released. UPDATE: It is real. It was taken [Read More…]
Remember at the end of last year when a guy named Jesse James won a Bushmaster ACR? Well, he had much more restraint, and foresight, than I would have had. Instead of taking his new baby to the range the moment he got it, he put it in his safe without firing a shot. Now [Read More…]
Over the next three years the Czech armed forces will be adopting the 5.56mm CZ 805 rifle, the 9mm CZ Skorpion EVO III (no relation to the original CZ Skorpion), CZ 75 Phantom (polymer version of the CZ 75) and CZ 805 G1 underslung grenade launcher. Česká zbrojovka [Read More…]
I have read through solicitation request for the Army’s M24 Sniper Weapon System upgrade. I am struggling to see how it can be considered an upgrade. The original M24 is going to have little in common with an upgraded version. As I read the solicitation request [Read More…]
WCNC reports … North Carolina investigators with the Department of Labor visited the plant last week and have been talking to current and former employees. Before the guns are shipped out, they must be test fired. Sources say employees have complained about [Read More…]
Tyler has photos from the new Hollywood Guns exhibit at the National Firearms Exhibit. This photo is of the Barrett M107 used in The Hurt Locker.
Michael Bane reports.
Anyone who has visited Vegas knows that there is money to be made selling range time to tourists. There are advertisements for machine gun shooting everywhere. Apparently it is also big business in the US territories of Guam. The Japanese monarchs and governments have [Read More…]
Yesterday PEO Solider had a media roundtable discussion. I should have phoned into the event but I only just realized it was on. One of the topics discussed was the Improved Carbine Competition. According to the PEO Solider twitter account, which was live updated during [Read More…]
NBC LA reports … Carranza was just a few feet away. She survived a gunshot to the chest, but the the bullet left a scar and deflated the implant. “She’s just one lucky woman,” Dr. Ashkan Ghavami told the LA Times. “I saw the CT scan. The [Read More…]
From The Arizona Republic, via. SayUncle … Cavalry Arms Corp. says on its Web site that it has been “engaged in an ongoing dispute” with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, for two years over “regulatory and [Read More…]
GunsAmerica has just launched an online gun magazine. I contributed an article entitled SHOT Show 2010 Insider’s Look. In the article I discuss a variety of new guns, including the .416 Barrett Model 82A1, American Tactical Imports AT-94 (9mm MP5 clone) and FN [Read More…]
Sabre published this press release in response to the BATFE raid … NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 17, 2010 – Sabre Defence Industries LLC, an established manufacturer of firearms and weapon systems to the United States military, state and local law enforcement, and [Read More…]
Its appears that Anvil Arms went out of business in November last year. Their website is still online but no products are listed. From Weapons Cache Forum … NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Fl St. s. 679.610 et seq., MILTON DISSER, LLC, as secured creditor, [Read More…]
AR-15 manufacturer Sabre Defence Industries has been raided by the BATFE. The Nashville Post reports … Federal law enforcement agents, led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, descended on Nashville’s Sabre Defence Industries this [Read More…]
This is not going to make customers happy … If you purchased a GSG 5 SD model with a barrel shroud (Fake Suppressor) ATF has now determined that this is regulated by the NFA and must be replaced. To all retail customers: On January 2010 American Tactical Imports [Read More…]
Back in August (2009) the Department of Justice published their intention to purchase AR-15 carbines chambered in .40 S&W from Rock River Arms. Their reasons for choosing the RRA LAR-40 carbine is that, because they already use AR-15s, training and maintenance will [Read More…]
This graph shows the price (MSRP) of 5.56mm rifles that were launched over the past year (and the HK556 which has not yet been launched). Looking at this chart, it seems unlikely that the ACR would have ever been launched at under $2000.
Rihanna’s music video for the song Hard features lot of guns. Plenty of M4′s (being fired in a very careless manner) and XM-8s can be seen. Seems that while Hollywood has figured out that the XM8 is no longer cool, the music industry has not. [Hat Tip: [Read More…]
Abrams Airborne Manufacturing, VLTOR’s parent company, is the third company in recent months to sue Magpul over patent infringement. VLTOR claim that Magpul’s ACS stock violates their Modular Firearm Buttstock patent. Both stocks feature a removable storage [Read More…]
Times of India reports … NEW DELHI: Maoists may have been dependent on weapons looted from armouries but now they have developed the expertise to clone sophisticated weapons, including assault rifles of AK series, in a development that should worry security [Read More…]
Over the past 6 months I have been following the Marines sly procurement of M45 1911 pistols (formally MEU(SOC) pistol) in small parts. The Marines have just procured 150,000 rounds of Federal Premium Gold Medal .45 Auto 185GR FMJ-SWC Match Ammunition. The procurement [Read More…]
Sadly Charles Daly / KBI are no longer trading … To all our friends, fans, supporters and consumers of Charles Daly and by extension, KBI products, I regret to inform you that the rumors of our demise are true. KBI is going out of business and closing its doors, [Read More…]
An FBI agent posed as a representative of an Africa nation. An S&W executive (and others) attempted to bribe the government official! WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – An executive of Smith & Wesson (SWHC.O) and 21 others have been charged with violating U.S. [Read More…]
Trijicon are under fire after it was discovered that Trijicon scopes supplied to the US Army contain a references to bible verses inscribed on them. ABC News reports … One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians [Read More…]
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