Archive: January, 2014

Crye Precision Six12 Bullpup Shotgun

Crye Precision debuted their double-action Six12 modular bullpup shotgun. Designed as a safer and more efficient door breacher, the Six12 is a 12-gauge, 6-round cylinder-fed modular shotgun platform. The bullpup layout brings the weight closer to the shooter and allows [Read More…]

Faxon ARAK-21

Faxon ARAK-21

Faxon Firearms is showing the new ARAK-21 uppers at the 2014 SHOT Show in Las Vegas.  The units are piston AR uppers designed to be used with any milspec lower.  The ARAK-21 has a folding charging handle (non-reciprocating) that can be user-located on the right or [Read More…]

Magpul Releases AK Mags and 10rd .308 Mags

Magpul has released the long awaited polymer AK/AKM 30rd magazines at SHOT this year.  On hand was several AK’s on their wall sporting the new magazine.  According to their reps, the magazines have not yet been shipped to distributors, and speaking with RSR, [Read More…]

Colt SWORD: Bringing Guns, Android Phones and Drones Together

The Colt SWORD (Sniper Weapon & Observer Reconnaissance Devices) Technology Demonstrator connects a variety of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) and MOTS (Military Off-The-Shelf) components together into a deployable package. The system is hard to describe in a single [Read More…]

Remington R51 Photos

Phil White reviewed the Remington R51 a few weeks ago and I don’t want to repeat what he said but I will say it is a slick looking gun. Here are photos I took of it at SHOT Show today, including the Crimson Trace laser grips and the threaded model with a AAC [Read More…]

Nemo Pratka .300 Win Mag

The “mini” Glock 42

The first Glock compact, slim frame, single stack pistol has arrived.  What many have wanted, but most considered would never arrive, has finally materialized in the form of the Glock 42 in .380 caliber.  The long awaited “mini” Glock is finally a reality. Meet [Read More…]

FN's FN15 Carbine and Rifle

FN Decides to build ARs

Who would have ever guessed that FN would make the leap to manufacturing AR-15 based carbines and rifles? Seems like everybody is jumping on that bandwagon these days. Though they’ve produced the guns for quite a while, they’ve only had a few regular [Read More…]

BROWE Sport Optic

Yesterday I noted the Browe Combat Optic, a titanium-housed optic that automatically sets reticle brightness based on lighting at the target. But not every shooter needs (or can afford) that kind of performance. As an alternative, Browe offers the Browe Sport Optic [Read More…]

SIG P238 Black Pearl

SIG P238 Black Pearl

SIG Sauer is showing a new version of the P238 called the Black Pearl.  It features a polished and engraved slide plus custom wood grips.  The Black Pearl is outfitted with SIGLITE night sights. Like other P238 pistols, the gun is a SAO pistol with a manual thumb [Read More…]