The Firearms Guide- 4th Edition, is a DVD for Mac and PC which contains a library of 57,000 firearms, airguns, and ammo from 630 manufacturers. They have some really nice high resolution pictures, 500 printable targets, and 4,300 gun schematics. [Read More…]
Semi-automatic versions of the Degtyaryov DP28 machine gun are being sold in the United States through AIM Surplus. The DP28 MG was used by the Soviet Union during World War II and beyond. It used record-like, 47-round magazines. Due to the shap of the magazines, [Read More…]
Crowdfunding has brought us a plethora of new firearm products and parts over the last year or so, from AR-15 upper and lower receivers to gun lock boxes. Well here’s a new product for the AR-15 that’s a bit, different. The BeowulfX Picatinny Rail mounting [Read More…]
Guns & Ammo magazine have produced this video featuring the Heizer Defense PS1 “Pocket Shotgun” and its creator Tom Heizer … It looks like a gun little gun, but for $499 it is going to be a niche product. I do think it would make a nifty survival gun for [Read More…]
Today marks the anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK-47, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows a dapper young Hungarian revolutionary named József [Read More…]
Strike Industries have just Facebook’ed a photo of their new patented picatinny ultra low profile sling attachment device. It can be mounted on a picatinny rail without getting in the way of anything above it. It could be, for example, mounted underneath a [Read More…]
The Romanian Army has publicly unveiled the prototype of their new 5.56x45mm service rifle at the Expomil 2013 military exhibition in Bucharest. The rifle does not yet have an official name and is just being referred to as the “New 5.56mm Army Rifle”. [Read More…]
A number of DIY guns were recovered by the Philippines army after the the rebel siege of the southern city of Zamboanga. They include 40mm grenade pistols, a gun vaguely patterned after an M4 and a Mac-10 clone. Many thanks to Mike for the photos.
MAC has produced a video review on his Colt USMC M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistol. Apparently Colt is only producing eighty of these each month for the civilian market …
Robert Kaiser, CEO of PPSS Group, demonstrates that his company’s ballistic vests work by getting one of his staff to shoot him at point blank range with a 9mm Glock 19 … The vest he was wearing is 1/4″ (6.5mm) thick. It will save your life, but it [Read More…]
Well hello. Y-man here again. Hope y’all doing well. I will be coming to the US again in early 2014, yay! I am meant to attend a work-related seminar, conference kind of thing in the USA in late January, early February, and I look forward to adding on a few days of my [Read More…]
H&K USA has just released new polymer 30 round magazines for the AR15/M16 platform: Oddly enough, there is not much competition in the way of transparent M16 pattern magazines. The biggest player has been the Lancer L5 mags, which cost $19.99 from Brownells and I [Read More…]
Pictured are various simple hand built submachine guns primarily recovered by police in and around Haifa District. Yet more examples of how an infinite supply of cheap and effective firearms will always be available to criminals and the wrongfully [Read More…]
Suddenly the US Army’s obsession with lead-free ammunition makes perfect sense, it was about security not the environment. A reader writes … The last remaining lead smelter, in Herculaneum MO, is closing down. This will undoubtedly affect the price of [Read More…]
N.R. Jenzen-Jones writes that the Libyan 11th ‘Lightning’ Battalion, a special operations light infantry battalion, have procured Arsenal AR-M9F AK rifles chambered in 5.56x45mm … The image above shows members of Libya’s 11th ‘Lightning’ [Read More…]
After reporting my new find in a previous TFB article, I just got some actual trigger time with a Bullpup Unlimited Remington 870. In review, what’s neat about this product is that you take an existing Remington 870 pump shotgun, remove the stock and forearm, and [Read More…]
Sturm, Ruger & Co. announced the release of the new SR-762 rifle. The new rifle is chambered in 7.62 NATO (aka 7.62×51) and uses a two-stage piston system like the one used in the SR-556 rifles. The 16.12″ barrel is chrome lined and threaded for the [Read More…]
Last year the PLA sent in a flamethrower after a Chinese villager was killed, and dozens injured, by Asian Giant Hornets living in a giant hive five feet in diameter. Interesting technique used to control the flame thrower. I feel for the soldier whose face was inches [Read More…]
Precision Remotes is offering a solar-powered, remote-controlled sniping kit for both ambush and counter-sniper applications. The man-portable unit weighs 46 pounds (with weapon) and is contained in a backpack. A soldier can set up the T192 and control it from up to [Read More…]
Joel Allen, who was the lead tech at Noveske Rifleworks from when John Noveske founded the company up until, has started his own gun parts manufacturing business called V7 Weapon Systems. From the companies about page … It all started back in 2000 when a young [Read More…]
Earlier this year I wrote about the Lithgow Arms LA101 CrossOver rifle, a Thales Australia and Winchester collaboration. It was unveiled at the end of May at an Australian gun expo. I thought it was about to go into production but apparently the general public had a [Read More…]
An employee of Field & Stream recorded a presentation given to the sales team on the Remington 2020 scope system by a Remington representative. The rep covers everything you could possibly want to know about the scope system. The final video shows the sales team [Read More…]
I’m here at the Blue Ridge 3-gun match, a fun, challenging match over natural terrain at the Rockcastle Shoot Center near Bowling Green, Kentucky. A company called Rubber City Armory (whose Director of Operations is none other than Chris Cerino, of Top Shot fame) [Read More…]
Every time the 5.7x28mm cartridge comes up in a discussion, you always hear someone talk about its ability to penetrate a row of Abrams tanks and then continue on into the next county, but there is not a lot of information out there to prove the manufacturer’s [Read More…]
MasterPiece Arms based out of Comer, Goergia recently debuted two new suppressors, the the MPA556S-II and the Murmur II that they make entirely in-house. Their new MPA556S-II suppressor features a monocore design that allows shooters to clean and service it without [Read More…]
New from Manticore Arms is their ARClight rail for the Tavor bullpup rifle. The ARClight, or Advanced Rail Chasis-lightweight, rail replaces the Tavor’s polymer forend and allows you to mount lights, lasers, grips and other accessories to your Tavor rifle. It [Read More…]
Zlatoust Machine Building debuted their new KSO-9 “Krechet” semi-automatic carbine recently at the Moscow 2013 Arms and Hunting Show. Based off the Russian Kedr submachine gun, it’s chambered in 9x19mm and features a Picatinny quad-rail, a compensated [Read More…]
Often when I discuss reloading with fellow shooters, I hear this common complaint: “I would get into reloading, but I just don’t have the space.” Well, in a recent move, I’ve gone from having plenty of space, in a smallish garage that I took over, to having [Read More…]
Hodgdon announced a new powder designed to reduce copper fouling in handguns. The CFE Pistol is a spherical powder that was originally developed for US military applications. CFE stands for Copper Fouling Eraser. Hodgdon has been selling CFE 223, a rifle powder that [Read More…]
A reader wrote … I called [the BATFE] today and Vicky (a pleasant sounding lady who answered the phone) said they have been affected by the government shutdown. Staff furloughed, no applications are being processed, nor can they check status. My Form 4 was [Read More…]
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