When Ruger’s President and CEO Michael Fifer took the helm the company was not participating in some of the fastest growing segments of the firearm industry. They did not have a striker fired pistol, an AR-15, a 1911 or a sub-compact polymer carry pistol. The [Read More…]
Blaser just announced that they are chambering their fantastic R8 hunting rifle in the equally fantastic 6mm XC cartridge. Wonder Twin powers, activate! If you haven’t heard of 6mm XC, don’t feel bad, you probably aren’t an NRA High Power competitor. [Read More…]
The Ruger Q4 2012 earning call was particularly enlightening as to the environment gun companies are operating in at the moment. Ruger’s sales have been soaring. NCIS background checks for Q4 rose 41% while Ruger’s sales (from distributors to retails) rose [Read More…]
Webster defines ricochet as a glancing rebound of a projectile off a flat surface. It is quite common physical effect observed by most of regular shooters. It can be deadly if not accounted for (thus a popular firearm safety rule – Never shoot at a flat, hard [Read More…]
The new .45ACP Glock 30S was born from a “hack” where Glock shooters tinkered a bit and married a 30SF frame with a 36 slide. These hackers felt that the 30SF was too bulky for concealed carry and that the 36, with its 6+1 capacity, did not hold enough [Read More…]
Bushmaster Firearms is starting to use Magpul MOE stocks on a lot of their rifles. Among the rifles now sporting MOE gear are the company’s Varminter, Predator and 308 Hunter lines. Four different Bushmaster Varminter rifles are now using the Magpul stocks: [Read More…]
If you have a full auto M16/AR15 lower, and you want to run a .22 LR conversion, take a look at the CMMG kit that was designed for you. The Auto Sear Trip and Anti-Bounce Weight Kit is designed to keep the bolt from bouncing after it has closed into battery. [Read More…]
Earlier this month I wrote about Argentina’s experiments converting the FN FAL from 7.62mm to 5.56mm. Ronaldo Olive sent me an article he wrote back in the mid-1980s about a FN FAL 5.56mm kit developed in Brazil … … from the November 1986 issue of the [Read More…]
Polish arms manufacturer Fabryka Broni Łucznik (FB), a division of the Bumar Group, had their sub-carbine on display at SHOT. The BRS-99 is the semi-auto variant of the current issue Polish SMG line. The gentleman working the booth [shown below] replied to my question, [Read More…]
Ammunition manufacturer Buffalo Bore is now offering a new low recoil load in .30-06. Buffalo Bore states the company created the low recoil .30-06 ammo for the “youth and small stature female shooters…[that] do not like the recoil.” The company also [Read More…]
SureFire’s new model 2211 WristLight is intended primarily for law enforcement officers who don’t have a weapon light mounted to their sidearm. The light is tilted “upward” from the wrist at a precise angle, and thus shines straight ahead when [Read More…]
Yesterday I blogged about the weapons used by the Malaysian military and police during the Lahad Datu Standoff. These photos show a group of men believed to be members of the Royal Army of Sulu. They were taken during peace talks between another [Read More…]
I have not announced them on the blog before but we have been doing weekly product giveaways on the TFB Facebook page. This weeks giveaway is for four sets of Strike Industry Pistol Buffers. Enter the giveaway here. If you have not already “liked” our [Read More…]
Earlier this month a group of armed Filipino men calling themselves the “Royal Army of Sulu” invaded a small Malaysian village. They were funded by a man claiming to be the Sultan of Sulu. The long-defunct Sultanate of Sulu once ruled the area until [Read More…]
Nepal’s Bira gun is a fascinating steampunk-esque hand-cranked machine gun that is notable for being developed and manufactured at a time when true machine guns were being adopted around the world. It is also notable for being the first (or one of the first) [Read More…]
Nikon is the latest company to roll out a specific bit of gear designed around the .300 AAC Blackout cartridge. The P-300 is a rifle scope that is specifically designed for AR-style rifles chambered for the 300 BLK round. The new Nikon P-300 is a 2-7×32 scope [Read More…]
Wired Magazine has published an excellent long form article explaining what the AR-15 is and what it is not to Wired’s geek/tech audience. From the morning that ArmaLite opened its doors in 1954 to the present, most of the innovation that has gone into the AR-15 [Read More…]
CNSNews.com reports that ammunition prices at Hyatt Gun’s in NC have doubled since December … We “immediately started rationing” as there are “a lot of unknowns for deliveries of products,” Hyatt said. The 5.56mm was selling for $0.50 [Read More…]
As many readers know my family and I have a cattle ranch in the highlands of central New Mexico. In order to effectively manage our herds and mitigate calf mortality, coyotes and other predators must be culled. Aside from coyotes…there has been a recent surge in [Read More…]
FN outbid both Colt and Remington to win the $77 million contract to supply the Army with 120,000 M4 Carbines and M4A1 Carbines. Remington orginally won the contract but Colt filed protests with the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The contact went back out to [Read More…]
About four years ago I published photos of the amazing double barrel machine guns developed by John Mihaita of ITM Tool and Die, Cleveland Ohio. Combining a fully automatic .308 Win. with a 9mm submachine gun is either madness or genius, four years later and I still [Read More…]
762PR Defence PR borrowed a Heckler & Koch G28, the Bundeswehr’s new Designated Marksman Rifle, from a local dealer for a photo shoot they were doing for one of their clients. The photos of are beautiful, as is the rifle … I had [Read More…]
The Daily Mail (UK) published a photo purportedly of an unarmed Thai policeman with a police dog that is packing a Glock pistol in a holster strapped to its side. I am very skeptical. It makes no sense that the officer would be unarmed but his dog has a pistol. I [Read More…]
I used to be a Hoppe’s No. 9 guy, and I’ve tried other CLP (cleaner, lubricant, preservative) products and they work fine. But I’m always in search of products that make my life easier. Over the past few months, FrogLube has kept my guns clean and well [Read More…]
For those unfamiliar with the concept of Back-Up Iron Sights (BUIS), they are just that, irons that fold out of the way when not in use, but can be quickly flipped up if for some reason an optic fails, and the shooter needs to be able to aim without the optic. Such a [Read More…]
What many of you don’t know is that TFB’s Phil White is something of a policing pioneer. Long before Texan cops started mounting .50 cal Barrett rifles on their patrol vessels, Phil was experimenting with .50 BMG Ma Deuce machine guns and speed traps [Read More…]
IndoDefensa is reporting that the Army of Peru will be purchasing 8,110 FN SCAR-H rifles from FN Herstal. The deal is worth $31.5 million. FN won the contract over local weapon maker FAME who are already manufacturing IWI Gailil ACE rifles under license for the Army of [Read More…]
A new company called GunPon has launched. They are looking for gun-related companies who want to do Groupon-style deals. Group buying has been popular with the online gun community long before GroupOn was a thing, these guys have a good chance of succeeding. I wish [Read More…]
The Atlantic has a photo essay showing the DIY weapons in used by Syrian rebels. The grenade launcher pictured above is a converted Baikal shotgun. The Baikal is a cheap, but well built, single shot. I own one and I can tell you they are very slow to reload and they [Read More…]
Brite-Strike Illumination is a company producing high end flashlights for police as well as the civilian market. The company was started by two police officers and is still officer owned and staffed. The company was started by Officers Brian Bushee and John Neal. These [Read More…]
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