Few months prior to the 2013 SHOT Show, Hi-Lux Leatherwood launched the new CMR-AK762 model in their popular Close Medium Range (CMR) 1-4x24mm series of tactical scope with a ballistic reticle made for the 7.62x39mm and 300 Blackout calibers. I had the opportunity to [Read More…]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is offering $100,000 in aid to member businesses affected by the devastating tornadoes that recently hit Oklahoma and Texas. The funds are intended to help those businesses with “significant financial [Read More…]
It has taken a long time, and a lot of drama, but the DoubleTap pistol is finally shipping. The good news is that the pistol design has been updated and now features interchangeable barrels so you can easily swap between .45 ACP and 9mm. Pricing starts at $499 for [Read More…]
Black Aces have developed a One Piece Tactical Rail for the Saiga 12 platform. The quad rail replaces the standard barrel handguard and, for added stability, also attaches to the Saiga’s side optic mount. It looks very cool, weighs only 16 ounce and cost just [Read More…]
Ryan Cleckner, a former Army Ranger Sniper Team Leader who is now the Long Range Instructor at Texas Triggers, was filmed shooting a Barrett M107 off hand (standing up) at a target 1000 yards away, and hitting it. The Barrett M107 weighted 37 lbs! That is one [Read More…]
A Get Home Bag “is designed to provide provisions and tools appropriate to help you get home (or other suitable shelter) should an emergency emerge while you are going about everyday life.” When I read this on the Echo-Sigma website, I got a better [Read More…]
Andrew Tuohy spotted the ultra-rare HERA Arms H3MAG at the LAN World, Utah gun shop. Right now there are only four species of these H3 magazines in the country. Hera does not even list them on their German website, but LAN World, the distributor of them in the USA, [Read More…]
3D Printer-extraordinaire WarFairy has expanded his P90-styled Charon printable AR-15 lower from a single design into an entire line of printable rifle and pistol lowers. The original Charon receiver design has been upgraded to version 0.2. The updated model [Read More…]
Slide Fire recently announced on their Facebook page that their new SSAR-22 bump fire kit for the popular Ruger 10/22 rifle is now available for pre-order. Available for both left and right-handed shooters, the new SSAR-22 kit includes one of Slide Fire’s SSAR-15 [Read More…]
A controlling stake in German Sport Guns GmbH (GSG) has been purchased by the L&O Group which owns a number of gun manufactures, most notably SIG SAUER, but also smaller European gun makers such as Blaser, Mauser, J.P. Sauer & Sohn and John Rigby. GSG has been [Read More…]
The AIM Active Shooter Training System (AIM-ASTS) from Intelligent Target Systems is a dynamic target system designed to improve law enforcement and the military training when engaging multiple moving targets with multiple moving “friendly” or “no [Read More…]
Night Optics USA, a Bushnell company, is now selling night vision adaptor kits for the iPhone 4/4s/5. The new kits allow a user to use the video recording capabilities of the iPhone through a variety of night vision weapon sights and vision systems. MSRP on the kits [Read More…]
TFB writer Richard Johnson is giving away a copy of Chris Kyle’s American Gun: A History of the US in Ten Firearms over at his personal gun blog, Guns Holsters & Gear. If you win it you will receive the book before it goes on sale to the public.
There are few gun-related toys I want more than The Crazy Quail … It is funny to see one guy with a double barrel shotgun, next to a bunch of guys with Nordic +9 magazine extensions attached to their semi-automatics.
SWR have published some interesting videos to their Youtube channel recently. In their latest video they use a balloon, a high-speed video camera and their new SWR Specwar 762 suppressor to show the difference in muzzle blast between a suppressed and [Read More…]
The SmartReloader SR5000 Modular Gun Vise assists the rifle owner with rifles, short and long. The “modular” part refers to the two rubberized clamps which can be moved to six different locations to accomodate different rifle lengths. The modular clamps do [Read More…]
The German government is investigating a German arms manufacturer, Ministry of Defense employees and Bundeswehr general staff for corruption regarding a recent rifle acquisition. Apparently this unspecified rifle, which the media report as being [Read More…]
Egypt has announced that it purchased 50,000 9mm CZ P-07 Duty, “several hundred” 9mm Scorpion EVO III submachine guns and an unspecified number of CZ 805 BREN A1 assault rifles from Ceska Zbrojovka (CZ) for an undisclosed sum. Interestingly, just [Read More…]
Last week I blogged about the Lithgow Arms LA101 CrossOver, Australia’s first production rifle in four decades. A Australian kindly gave us permission to publish the below photos. The rifle will be going on sale for under $1000 Australian Dollars (~$950 USD) [Read More…]
These videos were produced by a member of the US Navy Band who is also a TFB reader …
Earlier this year, Winchester announced the new 17 WSM (Winchester Super Magnum) rimfire cartridge that is capable of 3,000 fps. The SAAMI specs for the cartridge and chamber are now online and available for download here. Although I have not been able to find the [Read More…]
A reader came across a diner in Apple Valley, a small town in Utah situated between Hurricane, Utah and Freedonia, Arizona, with an interesting dinner menu. I will have a Musket, with the .45 Caliber and the AK-47.
KRISS was planning on exporting pistol components from their factory in Switzerland to their US factory ,where they would be incorporated into guns being exported to Saudi Arabia, until the Swiss government refused to approve their export license. The guns [Read More…]
Ruger CEO and President Michael O. Fifer recently said on a shareholder analyst call that the company needs a lot more gun loving engineers. From the call transcript … Brian Gary Rafn – Morgan Dempsey Capital Management, LLC: Mike, you talked about your new [Read More…]
Australia’s famous Lithgow factory, which originally opened just before the first world war to produce Enfield rifles for British Commonwealth troops, stopped producing civilian rifles decades ago and instead focused on military weapons, such as the Australia/New [Read More…]
Arsenal is calling it quits on the 5.56 NATO chambered AK. The SLR-106 line of rifles and pistols broke new ground when introduced nearly a decade ago, and remain popular among AK aficionados and those who want the toughness of the Kalashnikov platform and ammunition [Read More…]
New from Aimpoint is the 9000SC-NV, a night vision compatible version of the non-magnifying (1x) optic developed for the sport shooting and hunting markets. This is the first night vision compatible 9000SC brought to market by Aimpoint. The 9000SC-NV has a 2 MOA red [Read More…]
Over the course of my life, I have probably waddled into no fewer than twenty or so indoor gun ranges. I love a quick visit to an indoor range to test a few pistols, have a short bit of fun, and get out quickly because the facility is usually either too hot or cold [Read More…]
If you have not heard of them before, The Ballistics By The Inch project tests cartridges by shooting them through a rifle-length barrel, noting the velocity, then cutting an inch off the end of the barrel and repeating until the barrel is just 2″ in length. This [Read More…]
TriStar announced the addition of left-handed Viper G2 shotguns. The shotguns will be nearly identical to the set ups found on the right-handed guns. The shotguns will be available with a black synthetic stock and with a camo patterned synthetic stock. Both guns [Read More…]
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