The Self-Defense Photo Of The Day. Above you have it, an Austrian Glock pointed at an attacker armed with a knife – way too close for comfort and bound to leave a mark or two somewhere, somehow, at least on someone. Luckily this is only melee training for the [Read More…]
Most individuals who are relatively new to the concealed carry market will typically go the way of semi-autos and be done with it. There’s still a large group of individuals who carry a revolver on a regular basis, and I will admit I am usually one of those [Read More…]
Knowing the speed of your bullet is an important factor in hitting distant targets. If you know the ballistic coefficient (BC), the speed of your bullet and combine it with the environment you’re shooting in (i.e. wind, pressure and temperature) you’ve got a [Read More…]
Elite Tactical Systems, or ETS for short, has been cranking out affordable magazines for the world’s most popular pistols and rifles. Last year, TFB announced ETS’ 40 round magazines for Glock 9mm pistols, and they’ve recently just added 40 round [Read More…]
Christmas is always a wonderful time for giving back, spending time with loved ones, and thinking way too much about what you’d REALLY like from Santa. This year I decided it was time to dream just a little bit bigger. How big? We’re talking a .50 BMG GM6 [Read More…]
Cabot Guns OAK Custom Collection consists of one-of-a-kind 1911 pistols that look more like art museum exhibits. These guns represent a combination of the most amazing design ideas, rarest materials, and most complicated manufacturing and finishing techniques that [Read More…]
Sport Systeme Dittrich (SSD) is a German company specialized in making reproductions of historical German firearms. Besides that, they also make modernized versions of the legendary WW2 German paratrooper rifle, the FG-42. The SSD’s modernized FG-42s feature a [Read More…]
Viva Italia! Brazilian Law Enforcement agencies have ordered up to 159,000 units of Beretta’s APX striker-fired semi-automatic pistol. The pistol is going to be used by the National Public Security Force and the regional police forces of several of Brazil’s [Read More…]
In what may go down as a Christmas miracle, the ATF has rescinded the notice pertaining to weapons with stabilizing braces. The potential rulemaking would have had a massive effect on both individual owners as well as the firearms industry, redefining pistols as rifles [Read More…]
Happy Holidays TFB fam! Hope you are surviving this circus known as 2020 well. As the year draws to an end I am expecting my latest tax stamp to arrive. Earlier this year I was offered a screaming deal for a SIG Sauer SRD556-QD. I bought it on the spot and [Read More…]
In previous Photos Of The Day articles, we have looked at Russian Combat Swimmers with the APS Underwater Rifle and US Naval Special Warfare Military Diving Operations. We also had the postcards from the German Kampfschwimmers from a much warmer place than Sweden. Above [Read More…]
Revolvers can be deployed for a multitude of applications from self-defense, target shooting, hunting, and simply for the pure enjoyment of firing them. A smaller niche that some sportsmen/sportswomen might be shopping for is pest control. We are swiftly approaching the [Read More…]
After seeing Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only, I wanted nothing more than to be James Bond. I even have a similar Walther PP to the one he used in Dr. No. While knowing James Reeves is a close second to that dream, our James will probably have a much harder time [Read More…]
Competition shooters are on a constant lookout for products that save them time during a course of fire (or products they think or hope will save them time). Over the years, Armanov have developed several interesting products both for sports shooters and reloaders. [Read More…]
With regards to night vision, I am pretty much squared away and then some. But when it comes to thermal devices I have yet to get something good. All I want for Christmas is an NVision NOX, SKEETIRx and ammo. NVision Optics NOX Over a year ago I reviewed the NVision [Read More…]
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing recently announced that they have received the first order for the ASR (Advanced Sniper Rifle) from the US Special Operations Command. The $50 million contract to provide the ASR was awarded back in March 2019. The ASR tender as [Read More…]
Glock versus 1911. Nine millimeter versus .45 ACP. The length of James’s shorts. There are many hotly debated topics in the world of guns. One thing we can all agree on, however, is that more rounds are always better. One cannot attend a contest of shooting [Read More…]
Karl Vreski, German terrorist-thief and second in command to Hans Gruber, discusses his life since Die Hard. On this TFBTV Christmas special, Karl talks about the difficulties he had with his Steyr AUG during the Nakatomi Plaza job, and what he has done since his embarrassing defeat at the hands of [Read More…]
One of the main ergonomic issues (for a modern shooter) of the Makarov pistol is the heel magazine release. With some practice, you can do reasonably fast magazine changes, but you still can’t get even close to the speed of the thumb actuated magazine release [Read More…]
I’ve come a long way in the 25 some odd years I’ve been playing around with firearms. As a child, all I wanted was the simple stuff, more ammo, some soda cans to shoot at, and time out on the range with my buddies and my dad. Although quality range time with [Read More…]
In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have 17 nations working together for defence and deterrence in NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia. Here they are in Estonia as part of the multinational exercise called Spring Storm. Above you can see [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 77th Edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a sweet [Read More…]
I wonder how many of our readers own a Ruger 10/22 and if anyone kept it stock? At SHOT Show Kinetic Research Group (KRG) introduced a KRG Bravo chassis for the Ruger 10/22. With over 7 million rifles made, and more to come, it’s a pretty safe bet to make a [Read More…]
We can all agree that sometimes the “Gucci Glock” modifications go much further than they need to. However, one upgrade is considered almost mandatory among many Glock shooters. The factory sights on a Glock leave a lot to be desired for some. Sure, [Read More…]
Once we all become adults, Christmas begins to mean a lot less to us and is more about what we can give to others. We start families, have children, work relationships, business acquaintances, and endless others we hunt down gifts for. It is not like when we were [Read More…]
The latest addition to the product line of Form Rifle Stocks, a British company specialized in manufacturing wooden firearm furniture, is a series of stock sets for different Marlin lever action rifles. These stocks were apparently first introduced at the beginning of [Read More…]
Savage Arms has unveiled the latest camouflage pattern for their RENEGAUGE shotgun, for those that live throughout the West and Midwest locations of North America. The RENEGAUGE shotgun has been a popular choice for waterfowl hunters across the nation and now it is [Read More…]
Vortakt Barrel Works is a Wisconsin based barrel manufacturing company that is entirely focused on the barrel making process. The company provides both complete barrels in virtually any caliber from .17 all the way up to .50 and lengths of up to 30 inches. The company [Read More…]
OK, let’s start with an honest disclosure: I won’t get these guns for Christmas 2020, nor I will get any firearms, for that matter. However, this doesn’t mean I can’t dream. And since we’re just dreaming here, I will dream big and list a few “lifegoal” [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – For the first time in a very long time we got a tip from one of our readers “down-under” and quite an interesting one. The picture is from a New Zealand Army sniper course. One of the two soldiers who managed to pass the course is [Read More…]