This guest post was written by a friend of mine, Curtis, and edited by myself. Here’s a short overview of Chinese weapons, featuring: Types of launchers that explode for various reasons for various goals currently used in the world. Let’s begin shall we? [Read More…]
Before your mind runs wild, the Naked Ammo Holder is a magnetic ammo management system for people shooting stainless steel projectiles from a sling shot. Consisting of a carabiner, paracord and a rare earth magnet, the Naked Ammo Holder keeps your ammo readily [Read More…]
Lantac Tactical showcases their muzzle brakes in this beautifully shot video. The cinematographer uses a little bit of J.J. Abrams’ style and has lens flare galore in some of the early product shots. Then in the following scenes we get slow motion shots of an [Read More…]
Alan Lardieri uses a cutaway AR lower and a high speed video camera to capture the full range of motion of the Geissele SD3G trigger. He shows it at 300, 600, 1200, and 2400 FPS.
Alan Lardieri goes inside Geissele and talks to Bill Geissele about their triggers and how other trigger systems work. Then they go on to showcase their sister company, ALG Defense. It is owned by Bill’s wife and they make mag wells for gen 3 glocks, free float [Read More…]
MattV2009, famous for pushing Glocks and AK-47s wayyyyyy past their failure points with twinkies, hot sauce, and Silly Sludge has found a new calling testing gun cleaners with a red hot muzzle brake after killing his G17 with marshmallow. While I was hopeful that the [Read More…]
I have always been a fan of firearm art, in every manner of the term. There is something elegant about using ammo, brass and even rifles and handguns as art pieces. I personally have several pieces and firearms that hang on my office wall for display. While they [Read More…]
A Virginia man is filing a lawsuit against Kel-Tec and ProMag Ind. after the failure of a ProMag vertical foregrip led to an accident that resulted in the loss of most of his hand: It appears that their client was shooting a Kel-Tec KSG equipped with a ProMag [Read More…]
Lone Wolf advises they now have pistol variants of the G9 carbine lowers available. These pistol lowers can be had with a short buffer tube, or with a longer tube designed for use with the SIG SB15 arm brace. One of the things that set these lowers apart from other [Read More…]
Sig Sauer makes a .22LR version of their popular P938 pistol. They also make a conversion kit for those of you who already have a P938. They are available on Sig’s website for $302.00 MSRP.
You can never get tired of seeing or hearing about the A-10 Thunderbolt and the weapon it was built around. The GAU-8 Avenger. “It is essentially a flying cannon providing 30mm worth of American air power” Here is a video released by the 127th Wing giving us [Read More…]
Asymetric Technologies has come up with a clever upgrade for body armor to address the problems with repeatable shouldering of an AR-15 style weapon. The ASP uses rare earth magnets in a small pouch that is attached to the shoulder straps of body armor. Then there is a [Read More…]
I’ve made no secrets that I am a fan of airsoft. Yes, it has its training limitations but it is an excellent force-on-force substitute for those without access to sim rounds. RatedRR put put a video showing the differences between an airsoft gun (which fires with [Read More…]
Arstechnica reports that a three-judge panel in the Chicago-based circuit court of appeals has dismissed a lawsuit against Armslist.com alleging negligence and that Armslist was promoting the illegal sale of firearms. The full Opinion for the Court is available here, [Read More…]
Savage Arms announced new rifle packages featuring the AXIS II XP rifles matched with a Weaver KASPA 3-9x 40mm scope. The packages will be available in a range of calibers and with two youth model options. Rifles all use detachable magazines, button-rifled barrels and [Read More…]
Week 20. So some of the tweaking did pull in some odd results, and I obviously did not check every link (1000 rd tumbler, etc…). I went a little more conservative with the data this week and spot checked a lot more. My overall goal is to add more data points so [Read More…]
Anyone else remember filling in bubbles with #2 pencils back in school? Well, that same technology is now available for competition scoring. Orion Scoring Systems has announced the release of Scannable Scorecards, which promises to “provide a much more efficient [Read More…]
The Matra Group manufactures steel AK-47 magazines in Bosnia. Here is a video showing all the steps of their manufacturing process. A lot of it is still done by hand as opposed to automated manufacturing.
Brownell’s posted up a video at the beginning of the month showing off their magazine and a glimpse into how they are manufactured in house.
Wembley is an area within the London borough of Brent, on the far western side of the city. Beginning in the 1950s, large numbers of immigrants from the Asian subcontinent began migrating to England and thus it is rich with the Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi [Read More…]
Royal Nonesuch, made his own .410 revolver carbine out of some scrap metal. It is a four shot revolver and even though it is rough looking, it seems to shoot rather well. Later in the video he shows how dangerous this gun build is, with regards to the [Read More…]
United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake has made a ruling in the Marlyand assault weapons ban lawsuit, Outdoor Wire reports: “Upon review of all the parties’ evidence, the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly [Read More…]
Many people that carry concealed do not want to have all of the bulk that goes along with everything that you can put on your belt. Carrying a spare magazine is always prudent though, allowing you to engage a threat and top off your pistol in the event that there [Read More…]
From the NSSF president, via Shooting Wire: NEWTOWN, Conn. – Last year was an extraordinary one for firearm sales, a year unlike any other in the industry’s history. That’s a fact to be mindful of when comparing estimated sales through the first seven [Read More…]
Somehow I have been drafted as “The Charging Handle” guy here at TFB. At first, I was suspect of the role, but have grown to enjoy it immensely. I have been witness to innovation on one of the most benign and often neglected AR parts. Also, I have been [Read More…]
Earlier this year TFB writer Nathan S., who worked in the defense industry, told me he wanted to pursue his dream of working in the gun industry. Even though I knew this might mean I would lose one of my team members, I supported him, as I would any one else on my team. [Read More…]
Demolition Ranch tries to out perform the Bow-mag. Demolition Ranch thinks the problem is constraining the explosion of gun powder. To solve this problem, he takes a Glock barrel and puts it inside a wooden shovel handle. He rigs it up so when he throws the spear shaped [Read More…]
TA Vision Studios and LEGOVulcan made a working replica of a M134D Vulcan. It has a ROF of 2500 RPM. It does not really fire but it spits out yellow technic pieces like spent brass.
This video says it is Shaghai SWAT. However the commentator is speaking Mandarin. Not unusual but Shanghainese is the main spoken dialect of the region. Linguistics aside, this officer is running on a wrapped ankle and is getting all his shots. 120 secs par time seems a [Read More…]
Stag Arms announced the introduction of their first 9mm carbines. The Model 9 and Model 9T are AR-15 style guns with adjustable buttstocks, charging handle and other features typical to the platform. The guns use Colt 9mm AR-type magazines, Stag states the guns have [Read More…]
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