When visiting the NC Star booth at SHOT Show this year the big attraction was the company’s introduction of their new “Tactical Blue Laser” devices . Touted as the “first blue laser technology”, NC Star is hoping to promote blue light [Read More…]
SAAB, yes the Swedish Auto Manufacturer, has a defense division called SAAB Barracuda that develops things like this bullet proof wall. Here is their website. The “Soft Armour” uses Lemonhead candy sized ceramic balls as the bullet proof medium. It sort of [Read More…]
Minox is one of the oldest names in the optic business. At SHOT 2015, Minox USA introduced an entirely new tactical line of scopes, binoculars and spotting scopes. The Minox tactical scopes are built by Optronica in Germany. Optronica was the actual manufacturer of [Read More…]
Before Chris Costa strutted his stuff in Japan, in the now infamous #costagate2015, Chris Costa was already famous in Japan. Back when he was working with Travis Haley at Magpul Dynamics, a Japanese publication company immortalized Costa and Haley in a small Japanese [Read More…]
Ok so the premise of the video is misleading. They are not shooting desserts with bullets but rather using a 12 Ga shotgun and shooting what appears to be bird shot. There are four desserts/targets up on the line: Whipped Cream Ice Cream Chocolate Syrup British Custard [Read More…]
I was walking around the SHOT Show floor when something caught my eye, it was what looked to be a Chicago typewriter, a.k.a. a Tommy Gun. It was at the same booth as the company behind the DP-12 Double Barreled Pump Shotgun. There was something different about this [Read More…]
Archangel debuted their new AAP10/22 Precision Rifle stock for the Ruger 10/22 at the 2015 SHOT Show. Like with their other precision rifle stocks it features a click-adjustable cheek weld and an adjustable length of pull. It also features a flared magwell for easy mag [Read More…]
SADJ has posted an excellent interview with Donald Roebling Award winner Sal Fanelli, a supervising engineer for Infantry Weapons Systems at MCSC. Fanelli commented on the creation of Mk. 318, its modification into the Mk. 318 Mod. 1 “Silver Bullet”, and [Read More…]
Royal Arms was established in 1984 to manufacture specialized equipment for breaching, hostage rescue and CQB. They are known as being the original inventor (and oldest manufacturer) of “Breaching Stand-Off Device”, “12 Gauge Breaching Shotgun” [Read More…]
Has anyone here watched Wild West Alaska? I’ll be honest–I never have (and didn’t even know it was a show). I was running tight on my schedule and didn’t do any research before I hit the booth of Wild West Guns at SHOT. I was surprised at how [Read More…]
One of the more interesting technologies available at SHOT was some of the thermal imaging equipment. I had the pleasure of visiting the Armasight booths (they had a couple of locations due to some logistical issues with booth assignment). The main booth had a huge [Read More…]
The Ak5 is the Swedish military’s variant of the FNC carbine. The “C” variant is the short-barreled carbine model, now widely used by the Swedish Army. Shorter still, though, is this bullpup conversion of the Ak5, shown below: The image first appeared [Read More…]
IWI US will introduce several versions of the Galil Ace chambered in 7.62 NATO later this year. The new guns will be available as both pistols and rifles. The new guns will use SR-25 pattern magazines, and will ship with 20-round Magpul Pmags. Initial rifle offerings [Read More…]
ProMag debuted their new Rollermag at the 2015 SHOT Show. Their new 30 round Rollermags work with any AR15 pattern firearm and features four wheels on an anti-tilt follower. So instead of sliding up and down inside of the magazine it rolls, which Promag says reduces [Read More…]
As we wind down this week, putting behind us all the tactical gadgets, fine craftsmanship, and cutting edge technology of the 2015 SHOT Show, I thought it would be good to take a detour to look at something… A bit different. Sometimes it’s easy to put on the [Read More…]
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