What if one of your friends came up to you with a grin on his face and told you that he went out and intentionally bought the worst pistol ever produced? Well, I happened to be that guy in this instance. I was watching one of my old favorite shows the other day called [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…]
Browning sent out this teaser image of their upcoming 1911-22 Composite pistol. The Composite model, which features a polymer frame, will be offered alongside the standard aluminum-frame models. The new polymer version will weigh a couple of ounces less and have a [Read More…]
An exhibit of Philip Luty’s famous homemade design previously displayed at Dortmund Bodegam in Oslo, Norway. Produced by engineer and artist Cameron MacLeod. “A Book and a Pistol comprises of an installation, both of a homemade 9mm submachine gun and the [Read More…]
Pat Cascio reviews EnGarde T.R.U.S.T. Body Armor over at our sister side All Outdoor … I wore my sample T.R.U.S.T. vest around for several days, and it was very comfortable. The Ceramic material makes these hard armor plates lighter than all-steel plates. EnGarde [Read More…]
LaserLyte introduced a new training pistol that is a compact version of the existing Trigger Tyme trainers. The new compact guns are roughly the size of the Smith & Wesson Shield and Springfield Armory XS-S pistols. Unlike an actual striker fired pistol, the [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…]
It is always nice to be pleasantly surprised. When I received this lantern from Streamlight my first thoughts were, “ho hum – another lantern.” Shame on me. Plus, I was in the middle of relocating my family from northern Virginia to Alabama and you will [Read More…]
IWI US, the United States-based subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries, is now selling the UZI PRO pistol. The UZI PRO is based on the original UZI submachinegun and is chambered in 9mm. The guns are shipping with a 20-round and a 25-round magazine. MSRP is listed [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…]
It’s funny how guns and knives just go together. I’m willing to bet that if you own a gun, chances are that you own at least one knife. I think I own 10 — I lost count somewhere along the way. I don’t know if the converse is true where many knife [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…]
American Tactical Imports have announced their relocation from Rochester, New York to Summerville, South Carolina. They will be creating 117 new jobs in the region. Earlier this year, after New York passed the seven round magazine bill, I spoke to a company employee [Read More…]
Meet Ken Clark and Matt Sidley. These men are the proprietors of a modest shop and gunsmithing operation called TPM Outfitters in the town of Carrollton, Texas and between them have two decades of experience tinkering and working on firearms. While there are many [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…]
DoubleTap Defense have just announced the availability of the DoubleTap Defense Pocket Pistol chambered in .40 S&W as well as a .40 S&W Barrel Conversion Kit so that existing Pocket Pistol’s can shoot the .40 S&W. To concert a pistol all [Read More…]
The Royal Danish Army have been running a competition to select a new GPMG/medium 7.62mm machine gun. I was told that all the well known manufacturers of 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Guns entered into the competition, but my source is bound by an NDA and could not [Read More…]
The first illegally manufactured 3D has been confiscated by UK police during a gang raid. The guardian reports … Component parts for what could be the UK’s first ever 3D printed gun have been seized by police in which they called a “really [Read More…]
In some ways, the US law enforcement market is a bellwether for handgun trends. In the 1980’s, for example, law enforcement began to move en masse to the semi-automatic pistol and much of the buying public did as well. Some would say the early adoption of the [Read More…]
I’ve always loved the reliable old lever action rifle. Of course back in those days what kid didn’t? Our heroes were a very young Clint Eastwood in Rawhide and of course John Wayne and all of his westerns. There were others of course like Chuck Connors in the [Read More…]
Russian Special Forces have not given up on the underwater machine gun concept. The new Tula ADS has just been declassified and put on display at the Interpolitex 2013 expo. RT.com reports … The weight of the machine gun with the grenade launcher is approximately [Read More…]
Magpul is coming under fire from The Internet for not moving their manufacturing facilities out of Colorado fast enough. Same writes at The Examiner … Magpul Industries is now beginning to take heat from consumers over their lack of motivation to move out of [Read More…]
The Ruger Red Label shotgun was discontinued in 2011 due to poor sales. It seems that since then the Ruger engineers have been busy improving the design. The new Red Label has the same handsome silver/black/walnut look but with improved internals, improved barrels, [Read More…]
The DPMS LR-308 is not a new rifle by any means. In 2005 the original LR-308 was named “Gun of the Year” by the NRA publication, American Rifleman. Since 2005 DPMS has released 8 different rifles built on the same receiver in various in different [Read More…]
Magpul’s new all-steel MBUS Pro sights were released fairly recently, yet it seems like knock offs are already making their way from China. Magpul copies are nothing new, fake Magpul PMAGs and polymer MBUS sights have been all over the internet for quite some [Read More…]
If you have ever trained with dummy ammunition, it is very possible that you have been disappointed with some aspect of it. Often, the training cartridges are much lighter than normal ammo, they can be of an improper length and far too often they don’t stand up [Read More…]
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