Checkmate! This game of Chess with bullets from RUAG is quite special. Some, if not all, bullets seem to have some kind of surface finish over them, like PVD coating, Ionbond or metalization process. Unfortunately there’s no record of which calibers used [Read More…]
Remington’s new handgun has reached the hands of consumers, and the first reviews of the newest striker fired pistol from America’s oldest gunmaker are out… And you all know what I’m going to say next. Just the facts: I watched five reviews of [Read More…]
Olympic Arms sent out a notice to dealers and distributors today stating that after many years they will be closing their doors. The letter that was sent out does not go into detail as to why. The end of February will be the last day of operation for the business [Read More…]
Badger Ordnance has been a very innovative precision rifle accessory company for some decades now (this year the 35th anniversary). The companies products have been used in competition and in Military/LE circles for almost just as long. New for 2017 included this 60mm [Read More…]
Blackhawk! is coming out with a suppressor line. Crazy world right? The company has tooled up, worked with sub-contractors and gotten together with Silencerco for some of the adaptors provided to bring a value suppressor line to the market. The MSRP prices listed are [Read More…]
Checkmate! This game of Chess with bullets from RUAG is quite special. Some, if not all, bullets seem to have some kind of surface finish over them, like PVD coating, Ionbond or metalization process. Unfortunately there’s no record of which calibers used [Read More…]
Maryland based Leitner Wise Rifle Company (LWRC) brought out a number of rifles and product enhancements this year at SHOT 2017. Possibly the biggest innovations are the California-legal modifications that can be added to any rifle in the line up, .300 BLK, M-Lok as a [Read More…]
We’ve written a number of posts on TFB about the Pakistani company Daudsons. Far from the rough copies hammered together (although remarkably accurate) in the gunmaking village of Dharra Adam Khel in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Daudsons is really [Read More…]
Not long ago we did a video review of the Wilson Combat AR9G 9mm Carbine. Since James had a few feeding problems I wanted to test this carbine myself. I contacted Wilson and requested they send me the same carbine we previously tested. Not to call into question James [Read More…]
Slide Fire debuted its own belt fed AR-15 at Shot Show 2017. It is a modified AR15 with a detachable belt receiver. The belt fed into the side of the AR with the help of the feed system. The feed system is attached to the side of the modified AR receivers and can be [Read More…]
Today’s post on the work of Brazilian gun designer Nelmo Suzano (1930-2013) brings to light a somewhat unique 12-ga shotgun you TFB readers may have never heard about, the Pentagun. In the mid 1980s, Nelmo Suzano had one more prototype gun materialized during his [Read More…]
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 in Davos, Switzerland, was busy and the high-altitude resort was as usual highly protected. With new threats comes new kinds of protection and new types of “guns”. In these pictures captured by Simon Dawson you can [Read More…]
M+M Industries is a budding small arms design firm out of Colorado that has been bringing the 7.62x39mm M10X rifle to market for over a year. The overall goal of the design was to bring a modular rifle to the civilian market (LE/Military also a possibility) that has a [Read More…]
The ultimate kit for a prepper? Steyr Arms Inc. showed a prototype at SHOT Show of a Steyr AUG Survival Kit. The rifle, in high visibility orange, comes in a Pelican case and includes two 30 round mags, two 42 round mags, a serrated survival knife, a flare gun, a [Read More…]
TorkMag showed off a few new products at the 2017 SHOT Show. They debuted a new 20 round Glock magazine as well as a conversion kit for the AR-15 that allows you to use Glock mags. If you don’t remember TorkMag, a few years back Patrick R did a review of the [Read More…]
Springfield Armory debuted 6 new products for 2017 at SHOT Show. They had a really nice, large booth that was packed with people throughout the show. New products include the SAINT 5.56 AR-15 (technically debuted late last year), EMP4 Concealed Carry Contour 1911, [Read More…]
Axel is a long time friend of the Blog, and at SHOT 2017 he brought out one of the shotgun prototypes. He took a Remington 11, turned it upside down, then welded an MG42 grip to the bottom portion. He attached to an Ace stock, while folding a piece of metal on top of the […] Read More [Read More…]
This year at SHOT Springfield introduced a couple of new revisions to current models, one of those being the EMP4 Concealed Carry Contour chambered in 9mm. We all know that sharp corners and edges on a gun can make it hard to hide under a shirt and no one knows that [Read More…]
Springfield Armory debuted 6 new products for 2017 at SHOT Show. They had a really nice, large booth that was packed with people throughout the show. New products include the SAINT 5.56 AR-15 (technically debuted late last year), EMP4 Concealed Carry Contour 1911, [Read More…]
I think it’s fair to call this a “Shot Show Secret” isn’t it? C-More is primarily known for their optics lines, but they also produce a special line of short barreled shotguns for the US Army. These shotguns are now fully available to civilian owners in the USA, along with a [Read More…]
Hill & Mac Gunworks’ flagship is their ambitious project to create an affordable, shootable reproduction of the WWII-era German StG-44, but another thing they have been working on is a recreation of the CETME-L Cold War era Spanish assault rifle. Unlike their [Read More…]
I saw this Boba Fett inspired painted SCAR 16S at the Kinetic Development Group’s booth at Shot Show 2017. It was painted by JB Gates @baxta914. Here is a close up from Gate’s Instagram account.
Long range shooting is a sport that requires a lot of gear. Long range shooters try to consolidate their gear as much as possible. One item that caught my attention at the 2017 SHOT Show was the new 55 inch Deluxe Shooters Mat from Galati Gear. Not only is the Deluxe [Read More…]
The BAAINBw (Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support) has released an order for new assault rifles for Germany’s Special Forces. They will purchase a total of 1 705 rifles between September 2017 and June 2019. The [Read More…]
One of the most interesting firearms for me at the 2017 SHOT Show was Hill & Mac’s quasi-reproduction of the WWII-era StG-44 Sturmgewehr. We’ve covered this weapon twice before at trade shows, including SHOT 2016 and the NRA 2016 Annual Meeting, and I am [Read More…]
Nelmo Suzano’s venture with the ill-fated ENARM company in the early-to-mid 1980s was, regrettably, the last time his ideas were transformed in actual working prototypes. However, during the 1990s, conceptions were still to reach the surface of his drawing board, [Read More…]
The staff at Battle Arms Development with their white lab coats were at it again this year, showing off AR15s you swear are works of art instead of rifles, save for the 5.56x45mm stampings on the receiver. Specifically new for 2017 was the companies .300 BLK rifle [Read More…]
C-More has traditionally been more known for the companies competition sights than shotguns. But starting with the Master Key program in the 1990s at Picatinny Arsenal to get slide action shotgun mounted to an M4/M16, C-More submitted a bid and won the contract. [Read More…]
Operation Solutions International is a company in the United States that is bringing in an interesting take on magazine carriers with a single point of entry and insert. The working concept has been around for a year or more, but with OSI’s involvement in [Read More…]
With SIG’s recent win of the $580 million dollar contract for the US Army’s Modular Handgun System pistol, many are asking just how the American outlet of the Swiss-German SIG Sauer could have won such a large contract, especially against what many perceived [Read More…]
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