Over at AllOutdoor, Oleg Volk reviews the GWACS Lower, an updated version of the polymer lower that used to be manufactured by Cavalry Arms. The Cav Arms lower was popular back in the day but the company went out of business and sold off their designs and equipment. [Read More…]
American Tactical Imports (ATI) showed the .22 LR GSG MP-40 at the 2011 SHOT Show, but has yet to deliver any to the public. But, it looks like that will change in the coming months. As you might imagine, there has been pent-up demand for such a gun. Unfortunately, [Read More…]
Plinker Tactical is releasing three new .22 LR upper conversion kits for the AR-15 rifle. The three kits are the standard, bull barrel and SBR. Uppers are forged 7075 T6 aluminum alloy and should fit all MIL-SPEC lowers. Quadrail handguards are standard on all [Read More…]
Mission First Tactical is making a 7″ aluminum quad-rail for the AR-15. Called the T-MARC (Tekko Metal AR Carbine) Integrated Rail System, it replaces the standard handguard with a unit that has four Picatinny rails. No screws or gunsmithing is needed to install [Read More…]
A Chinese TV station has broadcasted footage of Chinese PLA Navy drivers with their clone of Russia’s APS Underwater Assault Rifle. The existence of this gun was confirmed only three years ago and until now I have not seen clear above water photos of the gun. [Read More…]
A reader noticed this strange looking short barreled rifle being auctioned off on GunBroker. The upper receive resembles the Sten submachine gun’s receiver and its lower looks to be a modified AR-15 lower with a AR-15 pistol grip and a A2-style stock. Despite [Read More…]
The Rosch Works SL1 SIGHT-LIGHT is a very nifty front sight for any picatinny railed firearm that has a built in 250 lumen LED flashlight built in. This is one of those products I wish I had thought up myself! The specifications are … 250+ lumen LED lighthead [Read More…]
Aspar Arms, an Armenian company, is chambering two rifles for the .300 BLK (aka .300 AAC BLACKOUT) cartridge: the AS300 and the ASR300. The AS300 is an integrally suppressed AK-style rifle that is adorned with a variety of rails and has an adjustable length stock. The [Read More…]
Bravo Company is now making a third generation Gun Fighter’s Grip for M-16/M-4/AR-15 style rifles. The Mod 3 changes include: 1/4″ wider than the Mod 0 and Mod 1 grips forward tang is baked into the Mod 3 (it is modular on the Mod 0 and Mod 1) has a [Read More…]
At the AUSA Expo a Colt Advanced Piston Carbine (APC) was on display with a new monolithic upper. Instead of the regular Colt APC quad rail, this version only has a picatinny rail along the top. It is tapped and drilled for picatinny rail sections, or other compatible [Read More…]
Ten Pound Monkey sent us these photos from the AUSA Expo of the upcoming SIG MCX PDW. The upper receiver contains a short stroke gas piston system with a forward recoil spring, doing away with the need for a buffer tube and [Read More…]
With a sufficient order, a firearm manufacturer will make a limited run of guns for a distributor. Ruger is well-known to work with distributors to make interesting variations of guns, and the latest collaboration between TALO and Ruger is no different. Ruger is [Read More…]
Rock River Arms announced an upgrade to the company’s varmint rifles. The new rifles now use a proprietary free float handguard called the Top Rail Octogonal or TRO. The TRO design allows for better airflow around the barrel for cooling and more options on the [Read More…]
My Russian friend and military photographer extraordinaire Vitaly V. Kuzmin sent us high resolution photos of the new Tula ADS Underwater rifle. It is quite an elegant design when viewed up close (rather than low resolution mainstream press images). The 40mm grenade [Read More…]
The Trapdoor rifle design is not one you hear about often. It was a breach-loading stopgap between the end of the muzzleloading era and the emergence of bolt actions. Most of the world went straight to the bolt action. Prussia adopted the bolt action Needle gun [Read More…]
Semi-automatic versions of the Degtyaryov DP28 machine gun are being sold in the United States through AIM Surplus. The DP28 MG was used by the Soviet Union during World War II and beyond. It used record-like, 47-round magazines. Due to the shap of the magazines, [Read More…]
The Romanian Army has publicly unveiled the prototype of their new 5.56x45mm service rifle at the Expomil 2013 military exhibition in Bucharest. The rifle does not yet have an official name and is just being referred to as the “New 5.56mm Army Rifle”. [Read More…]
N.R. Jenzen-Jones writes that the Libyan 11th ‘Lightning’ Battalion, a special operations light infantry battalion, have procured Arsenal AR-M9F AK rifles chambered in 5.56x45mm … The image above shows members of Libya’s 11th ‘Lightning’ [Read More…]
Sturm, Ruger & Co. announced the release of the new SR-762 rifle. The new rifle is chambered in 7.62 NATO (aka 7.62×51) and uses a two-stage piston system like the one used in the SR-556 rifles. The 16.12″ barrel is chrome lined and threaded for the [Read More…]
Earlier this year I wrote about the Lithgow Arms LA101 CrossOver rifle, a Thales Australia and Winchester collaboration. It was unveiled at the end of May at an Australian gun expo. I thought it was about to go into production but apparently the general public had a [Read More…]
Estonia is not a place I would have associated with the M14, but apparently the rifle has become very popular in the country. In the early 2000s the US government gave Estonia M14 rifles and their troops fell in love with them. The Estonian [Read More…]
Two years ago I decided to practice what I was preaching and switch to exclusively using 1x zoom scopes or red dots (no magnification) when hunting small game. This was a fun and challenging experiment but there were many situations where the jackrabbit was just out of [Read More…]
The guys at Strike Industries have been experimenting with buffer springs. They emailed me asking if I knew why nobody sells progressive buffer springs for the AR-15. I actually have no idea why they are not made. A progressive spring is a spring that has a [Read More…]
This video is for everyone who believes they might one day have their hands tied behind their back while starting down the barrel of an AK-47 ...
San Tan Tactical is making an AR-15 lower that was designed to be completely ambidextrous, including the magazine release and the bolt release. Additionally, the lower has integrated QD sling attachment points on both sides. The magazine well is flared for faster [Read More…]
Small Arms Defense Journal has reviewed the K14, the Korean sniper rifle based on the Winchester 70 … The K14 is a bolt action rifle with turn-bolt action, in 7.62x51mm NATO caliber. It is a very typical bolt action with not too many special or exotic [Read More…]
At a recent event in Liberec, Ceska Zbrojovka unveiled three new rifles. The upgraded CZ 805A2 BREN (photos below) has a number of external and internal changes including a new charging handle, selector switch and flash hider. The BREN will now be available in a [Read More…]
Molot, which I believe is now part of the new Kalashnikov Group, has just begun selling their new Molot Vepr Carbine chambered in 9mm. I don’t have much information about it, all I know is that it uses regular Glock magazines, weighs 7.5 lbs, has an M4-style [Read More…]
The long awaited Colt LE901-16S 5.56mm conversion kit has finally gone on sale at Colt’s online store. The kit allows owners of the .308 Win. Colt LE901-16S rifle to use standard mil-spec 5.56×45 NATO upper receivers. Included in the kit is a magwell block, [Read More…]
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