NOTE: This product review was made possible by GunsForSale.com. To get up-to-date information on where to find Taurus revolvers for sale, please visit GunsForSale.com. A short while ago Taurus released a new revolver in .40 S&W. The model 405 uses moon clips in [Read More…]
A reader sent me a fascinating photo taken by a friend of his who is a Malaysian defense journalist and photographer. The photo below was taken at a Malaysian counterinsurgency training exercise last year. The men pictured are members of VAT-69, the Royal Malaysian [Read More…]
Apparently the Marine Air Wing, America’s Navy’s Army’s Air Force, are using the new Leupold HAMR scope. Its combination of long eye relief and compact size make it a good choice for aerial overwatch. The Marine Air Wingers also appear to be Magpul [Read More…]
Over at the Kifaru forum, “Fairchase” wrote that his FN Five-Seven fired a round out of battery, blowing it up and doing severe damage to his hand and thumb. Last week my FN Five-Seven blew up causing severe damage to my left hand (I am right handed). There [Read More…]
“Deviant Ollam Cluebat Quartermaster” gave a fascinating talk at DefCon 19 on breaking open cheap gun locks and cheap gun safes. [ Many thanks to Aaron @ Weapons Blog & Simon for the video. ]
The Turkmenistan Army is now rocking Beretta ARX 160 rifles chambered in 5.56mm NATO. [ Many thanks to Albi for emailing us the link. ]
English Russia has a collection of photos taken at Orsis Armory plant where they make the Orsis T-5000 Rifle. They say that they plan on making Dragunov-style semi-automatics in the near future. [ Many thanks to mrsatyre for emailing us the link. ]
The Magpul phenomenon has reached Russia. Gennady M. Kozhaev, gunsmith and owner of a OOO Skat, has developed a range of modernized SVD rifles. The rifles are build using Izhmash Tigr receivers and Lothar Walther barrels. The rifle feature an AR-15 A2 pistol grip and a [Read More…]
Masterpiece Arms have updated their .380 ACP Protector pistol adding a few new features. A beavertail was added to the pistol to eliminate any slide bite and enhance the overall grip-ability of the pistol. New square serrations on the stainless and 4140 black steel [Read More…]
Sebastian and a friend have described in detail their latest successful attempt at making an AR-15 lower at home. They used a CNC mill to machine the lower out of a block of Delrin. Neither of the pair were machinists. Anyone with enough motivation can learn how to make [Read More…]
Hornady are recalling some lots of their .500 S&W 300 grain FTX Custom ammunition. Hornady® Manufacturing announced the recall of seven lots of 500 S&W 300 gr. FTX® Custom™ pistol ammunition. Hornady ballisticians have determined that some cartridges from [Read More…]
How much do you love your guns? Enough to put your gonads under the knife? In India, local government officials are offering to fast-track hard to get gun licenses in exchange for men agreeing to vasectomies. The LA Times reports … As gun culture spreads, local [Read More…]
Last week STK unveiled not one but two concept rifles on display at Singapore. The next-gen concept conventional design seems to be inspired by old H&K XM8. They also unveiled a next-gen concept bullpup. It looks a lot more compact than the STK SAR-21.
The pistol-sized rifle craze is hitting Europe. Beretta has revealed that they are developing a .22 LR pistol based on the Beretta ARX-160 rifle. I do not think the receiver or internals will be compatible with the full size 5.56mm ARX-160. A 7.62x39mm lower for the [Read More…]
Destin from SmarterEveryDay has taken some beautiful photographs of guns during recoil …
[ Written by gun optics guru Timothy Yan ] At SHOT Show 2012, the Hensoldt division of Zeiss released the Zeiss ZO 4x30i combat gunsight. The new sight, specifically designed as a combat optic for small arms, has a fixed 4x magnification, is robustly built and offers a [Read More…]
The last time we discussed the Singapore Technologies Kinetics (STK) Ultimax 100 machine gun was back in 2008 when General Dynamics unveiled the Ultimax 100 Mk5 as their entry into the Marine IAR competition, a competition eventually won by the H&K M27 IAR. At the [Read More…]
Leave a comment at 702 Shooter blog to win a rifle. At the moment you stand a 1 in 150 chance of winning 🙂 UPDATE: Just to be clear, leave a comment at 702 Shooter, not here!
FNH USA’s entry into the Army Individual Carbine competition is the FNAC (Advanced Carbine). The most notable difference between the FN SCAR and the FNAC is that the FNAC has a non-reciprocating charging handle and that the FNAC is 0.3 lbs lighter then a similarly [Read More…]
This week ST Kinetics (a subsidiary of ST Engineering), makers of the bullpup SAR-21 rifle, have been displaying a new conventional assault rifle at the Singapore Air Show 2012. The rifles looks a lot like the current generation of FN SCAR / Beretta ARX / Remington ACR [Read More…]
An elderly man down the street from me had his firearms stolen a few days ago. He had them in a locked box and hidden away but the thieves knew exactly where to find them, which makes me think it was an inside job (it is a bit awkward to ask someone if they have [Read More…]
A private Russian company called Arsenal Firearms has developed a new slick looking polymer pistol chambered in 9mm Luger/Parabellum. The pistol appears to be named “Strike One” although the YouTube video below says it is named Strizh, which I believe [Read More…]
More photos of new Izhmash AK-12, and the first video I have seen, have been published by Russia Today. Russia Today is calling the AK-12 the Kalashnikov 5.0. I declared it the 5th generation AK back in November and so am very pleased to see I counted up the AK [Read More…]
Clarksville online reports that the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division is the first unit to be issued the M26 MASS shotgun. The M26 is a bolt action magazine fed shotgun that can be used standalone or attached underneath an M4 barrel. It weighs 3.5 pounds, [Read More…]
Someone recently asked me which were the most high tech gun ranges in the USA. The range closest to Germany’s Müller Schiess Zentrum Ulm Range (see video below) that I know of would be the new Gander Mountain Academy in Lake Mary, Florida. One of the nicest [Read More…]
I just found out that in December 2011 Xe, the company formally known as Blackwater, was renamed to Academi. WSJ reported … On Monday, Virginia-based Xe plans to unveil a new name—Academi—and new logo. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Ted Wright, [Read More…]
After a few failed attempts, the Australian Army has finally decided on their next-gen rifle. They will be upgrading their Austeyr F88 (Australia’s Steyr AUG variant) to make is more modular, ambidextrous, lighter and easier to accessorize. New ammunition [Read More…]
You don’t make this kind of stuff up. A Bellaire man is held up at gun point, while the robber is distracted he takes the gun. The neighbor hears the commotion and runs out in his underwear and a Desert Eagle (a late model with picatinny rails) chambered in .50 [Read More…]
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Bryan captured the moment a .300 Win. Mag. round hit two blocks of ballistic gelatin during a demo of either the Remington XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle or the Remington Remington Modular Sniper Rifle (I can’t remember which was being used). [Photos © Bryan Jones [Read More…]
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