Next year Smith & Wesson will cease being the importer and distributor of Walther firearms in the USA. The owners of Carl Walther GmbH, the PW Group, have formed a new corporation called Walther Arms Inc which will taken over importing and distributing. Carl Walther [Read More…]
I am a gun chemical collector. I love buying and trying new solvents and oils. The more potent and foul smelling the better. What I don’t like is having that smell on me for the rest of the day. I also like to ensure I do not leave residual salts from my hands on [Read More…]
[ Many thanks to Halfbear for emailing us the link. ]
Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results). HamLund Tactical received this email and posted it on [Read More…]
Less than 300 of the Kimball .30 Caliber Carbine Auto Pistol were produced back in the 1950s. The operating system is fascinating. It is straight blowback, but upon firing the case expended into a ring machined into the chamber. The slide was force to swaged the case [Read More…]
The 14.9mm SOP is an incredible extra long range rifle project that a number of people at Snipers Hide have been collaborating on. The huge rifle fires a very long and heavy projectile with a high ballistic coefficient giving it extreme accuracy. It has 0.5 MOA accuracy [Read More…]
This photo was taken yesterday in Hamburg, Germany when the MEK (Mobiles Einsatzkommando / Mobile Tactical Squad) raided a bar after one patron killed another. What I find is interesting is a revolver being used by one of the leading officers. It is not often you see [Read More…]
The owner of an Army surplus store, United States Army Reserve Warrant Officer and commanders adviser on maintenance issues, wrote about his experiments testing how well Magpul PMAGs hold up against some of the chemicals that soldiers sometimes carry. I look forward to [Read More…]
I saw a red-colored high viscosity gun oil called “Zombie Blood” for sale on ebay. Y’all know I am not much of a zombie fan, but this product made me smile, it is a clever name. The manufacturer does not yet have a website (as far as I know) but they [Read More…]
Defense News reports that CZ has partnered with Sitno Holding to open a firearms manufacturing facility in Slovakia. Czech firearms manufacturer Ceska zbrojovka and Slovakia’s multi-industry manufacturer, Sitno Holding, have announced plans to open a new firearms [Read More…]
Jason Jackson has received a patent (#8,176,837) for a AR-15 gas system that can be switched from piston-mode to direct impingement-mode by the operator. The piston itself is the gas tube. By adjusting the system, the piston can be locked in place and opened up to allow [Read More…]
Chris Suprock attached a accelerometer to his Mini-14 to analyze what happens before and after the shot. [Hat Tip: Hackaday] [ Many thanks to Callum for emailing us the link. ]
This nifty spanish revolver fired off three 6.35mm rounds per trigger pull. The recent trend of double barrel guns is not so recent. UPDATE: I forgot to add the link. There is some disagreement about wether it fires more than one shot at a time. My interpretation of the [Read More…]
NOTE: This product review was made possible by GunsForSale.com. To get up-to-date information on where to find S&W guns for sale, please visit GunsForSale.com. In the last year and a half .380 pocket pistols have become very popular after years of a drop in [Read More…]
Over at Kit Up, Matthew Cox writes about the Meslas 10×40 Fire-Controlled Riflescope from Israeli firm Pulse Inteco Systems. The scope has a built in range finder and elevation calculator and adjusts the reticle according to the ballistic data uploaded into its memory.
SARG XS2012 is a rifle that a TFB reader has been developing for the past couple of years. The first prototype is being put together right now, with its first live-firing in the not-to-distant future. It has a very clever gas system. The piston extends all the way to [Read More…]
Azerbaijan is going to replace their AK inventory with locally produced IMI Tavor rifles. This is part of a $1.6 billion arms deal with Israel, which includes the purchase of a fleet of Israeli-manufactured drones. About six months ago the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense [Read More…]
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has announced that the Russian Armed Forces will be replacing the Makarov pistol with the Strizh Pistol chambered in 9x19mm. Arsenal Firearms jumped from obscurity earlier this year when they unveiled the Strizh Pistol, or Strike One [Read More…]
The folks at Hungarian gun magazine Gun Magazin had the opportunity to test the SERO GM6 Lynx, SERO’s lightweight and low-recoil shoulder fired .50 BMG semi-automatic rifle. I am looking forward to the full report, which they tell me will be published online in [Read More…]
Has anyone see case failures where the entire case was significantly elongated? (UPDATE: Commenters have pointed out that these are normal-sized cartridges jammed into separated case heads that remained in the front of the chamber when the new round was being chambered) [Read More…]
I think this is an old photo, and I may have blogged it before, but it is no less awesome, so I am blogging it again … Interestingly, the Soviets tried making the PPSh tacti-cool way back during WWII. This 1943 vintage PPSh has a primitive Gen-0 night vision [Read More…]
For those of you who are not familiar with it, the Bullet Button is a magazine release that cannot be operated with a finger, it requires a “tool” to release the magazine. A 5.56mm bullet is used as that tool. The reason for this is California law requiring [Read More…]
Imbel has their IA2 rifle on display at Magnum Show (the Brazilian SHOT Show). I would love to get my hands on this firearm. It is the youngest descendent of the FN FAL, although internally not a lot of the FN FAL remains. [ Many thanks to Rafael for emailing us the [Read More…]
This photo was posted on what I am told is the Syrian Revolution facebook page. The machine gun pictured is the 12.7×108mm DShK. The DShK was the Soviet WWII equivalent of the Browning M2. Its 12.7×108mm cartridge is very similar in size and power to the .50 BMG. [Read More…]
Unveiled last year in Europe, the Anschutz MSR RX22 is now being imported into the United States by Steyr Arms. The Anschutz MSR RX22 was jointly developed by Anschütz, German Sport Guns and ESC Ulm. It is essentially a ISSC MSR MK22 upgraded with Anschütz trigger and [Read More…]
Last year I blogged a photo of the prototype of the Strike Industries Sling Catch. They have begun selling it online. I plan on purchasing one. It looks like a comfortable way to carry a rifle when wearing a pack (or body armor). I think they should also target the [Read More…]
While other manufactures call their new assault rifle designs milti-caliber, but don’t produce them in anything other than 5.56mm, Beretta is shipping a 7.62x39mm version of their Beretta ARX160. It is one sexy rifle (I really like the Beretta style). This rifle [Read More…]
Lusaka, our man in Paris, had the opportunity to closely examine and review the brand new Thales/Steyr F90 rifle. [ Just to avoid confusion: the EF-88 is an experimental designation for the next-gen rifle being developed by Thales Australia for the Australian Army. The [Read More…]
Lusaka photographed the Gilboa Snake double barreled AR-15 which is on display at the Eurosatory ’12 expo in Paris. Silver Shadow deny that the gun was created simply to generated buzz and say it is a practical gun for CQB environments. The company claims this gun [Read More…]
One of the things I love about TFB is the healthy debates that do not end up in pointless flame wars. I would say only half the commenters in my post about LaRue agreed with me, but only a few attacked me instead of attacking my arguments. A good and healthy debate.
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