Looking for a cheap way to increase magazine capacity? Enter the Maghack, it’s a clamp that connects two magazines together making it into one large magazine. Just remove the floor plate from the top magazine, attach the Maghack and voila. OK there’s a [Read More…]
The below video of a 3D printed Ruger 10/22 Charger has been making the rounds on the internet, upsetting tech bloggers who never realized that people have been legally printing firearm receivers for other guns, such as the AR-15, for years. The designer of this 3D [Read More…]
One of the developers working on the video game Homefront: The Revolution, due to be released in 2015, is also a TFB reader and he has been working on the gun mechanics of the game. He and his co-developers are aiming to make the guns as customizable as possible. One [Read More…]
Yugoslavian AKs are very neat and stand out amongst their peers by having some very unique features. The gas cut off valve allows for rifle grenades to be fired (some folks modify this to reduce gas pressure when running a suppressor), they come equipped with night [Read More…]
Pat Cascio at AllOutdoor reviews the North American Arms Guardian Pistol chambered in .380 ACP and .32 NAA … Either Guardian retails for $449.00 dollars. That’s not cheap, but we are talking almost custom-quality little pocket rockets. These are really sweet [Read More…]
X-Products, known for their 50 round drum magazines and now infamous for the Can Cannon, is now shipping the X-15-9mm drum magazine for Colt-pattern weapons. X-Products touts it as the “most compact 9mm drum magazine on the market.” Built entirely from metal [Read More…]
There are range “bags” that are designed to hold gear and then there are “range bags” that beg to be hauled and mauled. The 5.11 Range Ready Bag is the latter, now having stood up to my grueling usage for over six months with nary an issue. So [Read More…]
According to IHNED.CZ the Egyptian Police increased the number of pistols they ordered from Česká Zbrojovka and are now purchasing 130,000 pistols. CZ is expecting to produce a record 250,000 firearms this year and has had to bring on additional staff to handle the [Read More…]
For those in restrictive states, Thorsden Customs may be a very familiar name. Thorsden is the shop that created the one of the first compliant non-pistol grip AR stocks that now typify NY and some CA-compliant rifles. Further expanding their compliant products is the [Read More…]
What does an Estonian reader of TFB do after he has purchase a €1,750 Steyr AUG rifle, €1,000 worth of optics and a €200 muzzle brake? Spent €2 on a DIY bipod, of course! The trick is cut off the articulating pads found on the end of cheap spring [Read More…]
Sintercore has released their new Tripwire charging handle, which looks to be a very simple, with far less points of failure over a traditional locking handle. Something that I have always questioned was the need to actually lock the charging handle, and how much of a [Read More…]
In the early Sixties, just as the Indochina conflict was beginning to draw serious attention from the Americans, the Army noticed a gap in effectiveness between their then-new rifle, the M14, and the new Soviet AK series of rifles (commonly known in the West as the [Read More…]
Earlier this year we posted pictures of the new rails for the AK-47 from Troy Industries, well now they’re finally available. Known for their high-quality rails for the AR-15, this is their first for the AK-47 variant rifles. The Troy Battlerails for the AK-47 are [Read More…]
Sightmark has released their latest red-dot sight, the Ultra Shot M-Spec. Those with keen eyes will see that it is very similar to their other red-dot models in terms of general size and shape. The Ultra Shot M-Spec’s new feature is Night Vision modes and a 65 MOA [Read More…]
Lidová Obranná Střelba, aka LOS, translates to People Defensive Shooting. It is a Czech shooting competition. It was started by the LEX Association. They are an association for the protection of rights for gun owners. They started LOS back in 2005. It is similar to [Read More…]
One of the moderators at Canadiangunnutz modified a SKS for a friend of his who suffered a stroke and can no longer use his right hand to cycle the bolt or dis/engage the safety. I worked on the scope mount. Easy enough to level the mount with the receiver, a few [Read More…]
While staying in Brno, CZ I went to a local range to try out some Czech made firearms. The range is called Trigger Service. They have two ranges. Range A is your traditional range with lanes and electronic pulley system for setting paper targets out to a set distance. [Read More…]
TangoDown has produced a line of spectacular SCAR accessories to help users of the rifle enhance their shooting experience. Pictured below is my SCAR with all of TangoDown’s bells and whistles: The first and most important accessory to me is the turned down, low [Read More…]
In December 2010 the city of Birmingham, UK installed the ShotSpotter, the controversial gunshot detection system. It cost approximately $257,000 to install and $36,000 each year to maintain but now, 20 months later, has now been deemed an outright failure. The BBC [Read More…]
The recent political upheaval in Egypt has fueled demand for cheap weapons for personal defense giving way to a variety of locally produced guns. Most commonly seen are patterns for simple homemade single shot shotguns and pistols circulating [Read More…]
As a direct results of the positive response from the prototype, X-Products has confirmed on their Facebook page that the Can Cannon will be headed to production. Posted on July 4th, X-Products stated that they are needing ATF approval and will have pre-orders online [Read More…]
Tactical-Life posted this up, Taser has a small POV camera that is targeted for Law Enforcement. It has 130 deg field of view but only standard resolution of 640×480. The device is rather small and they could have gone with higher resolution however I do [Read More…]
I was browsing a large historical gun auction at ProxiBid and this cannon caught my eye. It is an eight barrel hand cannon, apparently from somewhere in Asia, and is just 9″ in length. The small size, combined with the fact that each barrel has its own [Read More…]
Landed in Prague on Friday. Hotel check- in isn’t until 2pm so I left my luggage at the hotel baggage room and headed for the Česká Zbrojovka store. I asked about taking photographs and they were a bit cautious about it. They were concerned that I was casing [Read More…]
Mossberg is now expanding their plant in Eagle Pass, TX by adding another 116,000 square-foot addition for manufacturing and distribution. This comes as many other companies are leaving firearm-unfriendly states for southern states that are more 2nd amendment [Read More…]
DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) have done their first live-fire test of a optically guided .50 caliber bullet. Watch it hit a target in the below thermal video … From Darpa.mil … DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program [Read More…]
The REX ZERO 1 pistol is a new conventional hammer-fired steel pistol made in Slovenia by REX Firearms. We don’t have a lot of information about this pistol, or even the manufactures website address. What we do know is that it is probably chambered in 9mm NATO, [Read More…]
Alex C, TFB’s resident machine gun expert, shows us the “Texan Bellagio” located at the Trinity River …
Updated. Your eyes do not deceive you. That is not a free-float fore-end. It is indeed a pump-action AR-15, named the UMOS by Bentwood Gunsmithing of Nevada. The UMOS, or Universal Manual Operating System is a novel retrofit kit for AR-15s that utilizes [Read More…]
Hogue has expanded their popular line of AR accessories with the introduction of their overmolded butt-stocks for carbines. The collapsible stocks have the trademark Hogue overmold on the buffer tube section of the stock and recoil pad ensuring the stock does not slip [Read More…]
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