James is at LMT to talk about their .300 BLK PDW – an ultra-compact, lightweight AR-type rifle built from the LMT MRP platform. Check the video for more details. Enter to win the 5.11 SHOT Show 2024 Sweepstakes: 5.11 Tactical’s Win James’ SHOT Show Look Sweepstakes ««« GEAR USED IN THIS [Read More…]
The U.K. might be considered the Old World by us Americans, but the U.K. Royal Marines are on the absolute cutting edge with their newest DMR. Specifically, the Royal Marines have adopted an LMT AR-10-type rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor with HUXWRX suppressors and the Leupold [Read More…]
TFBTV and James Reeves are at Brownells covering GunCon 2023. In this episode, James speaks with his good friend, Joe Hajny of LMT, about LMT’s new suppressor line. Well known as a premium supplier of military and Law Enforcement M4s, AR-15s, AR-10s, and similar carbines, it only makes sense that [Read More…]
LMT Advanced Technologies and LMT Defense have teamed up to offer LMT AT ION 30 rifle suppressor buyers the eligibility to receive a free LMT lower receiver. The ION 30 LMT AT suppressor is optimized to provide shooters with maximum at-ear decibel reduction while [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and it’s time for a visit to New Zealand. Apart from the soldiers, the “star” here is the LMT MARS-L produced by Lewis Machine & Tool Company. Note the Monolithic Rail Platform. The rifle now serves as the standard service rifle of [Read More…]
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the YHM Turbo K rifle suppressor. Last week we got a preview of the new SIG Sauer SLH rifle suppressors – we’ll get back to shooting [Read More…]
LMT unveiled the newest addition to its lineup with the MARS-L9. The L9 incorporates features from the legendary MARS family of rifles and looks to make a big splash in the PCC market. From the factory, the MARS-L9 is fully ambidextrous and truly carries all your controls over to the right-hand side [Read More…]
LMT unveiled the newest addition to its lineup with the MARS-L9. The L9 incorporates features from the legendary MARS family of rifles and looks to make a big splash in the PCC market. I had the chance to shoot the MARS-L9 and talk with LMT about it during Shot [Read More…]
Good morning everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the YHM Turbo K 5.56 rifle suppressor. Last week we got a look at the Seismic Ammo 2.5 ounce subsonic shotgun shells. For today, since it’s [Read More…]
LMT, the manufacturer well known for manufacturing everything from AR-15 rifles, grenade launchers, and everything in between for both the defense industry and the consumer markets, has launched a spin-off division called LMT Advanced Technologies (LMT-AT). Their first [Read More…]
LMT Defense (Lewis Machine Tool) has been a long-time supplier of both the United States military as well as law enforcement and commercial consumers. The company is popular for manufacturing high-quality AR-15 rifles and parts as well as some heavier hitting items [Read More…]
Breaching by explosives is pretty hardcore, and in our Photo Of The Day, we’re looking at just that. These are combat engineers from the New Zealand Army. They are carrying the MARS-L rifle made by Lewis Machine & Tool Company, with the Trijicon ACOG optic [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day features a rifle you don’t see every day – the LMT MARS-L made by Lewis Machine and Tool Company in the hands of reservists from New Zealand, as they conduct a fighting patrol through the Malaysian jungle. Replacing the Steyr AUG, the [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV‘s #GunFest2021 coverage, James Reeves speaks with Joe of LMT about new LMT rifles, uppers and a new 2-stage trigger all being introduced by Lewis Machine & Tool for 2021. ««« GUN AND GEAR GIVEAWAYS »»» PLEASE check out our Patreon and Subscribe Star pages if [Read More…]
LMT Defense is bringing a civilian copy of the Estonian contract rifles to the US market for civilian purchase as the Estonian Reference Rifle. TFB first reported LMT’s selection by the Estonian military back in December 2018, the contract award was confirmed by LMT in May 2019 and the contract [Read More…]
Lewis Machine & Tool’s Estonian rifle contract has been news for some time, of which TFB has covered, but the LMT Shot Counter technology that was also rolled out with that rifle hasn’t attracted much attention. One reason for the lack of coverage could be the [Read More…]
LMT has confirmed the beginning of rifle deliveries to Estonia. Last summer Estonia selected LMT’s 5.56x45mm MARS and 7.62x51mm MARS-H as their new service rifles. The MARS-L has been procured in 12 and 14.3in barrel lengths. It also appears that LMT’s M203 40mm [Read More…]
This week it was announced that LMT Defense had gained a contract from the United States Army for $17,031,520 firm fixed price for a new production run of the M203/M203A2 40MM Grenade launcher. The order is estimated to be complete by September of 2025. The full press [Read More…]
At SHOT Show 2020, we spoke to our friends at LMT about their latest military contract with the Estonian Defence Forces (Eesti Kaitsevägi). LMT gave us the low down on the contract, the Estonian rifles’ and their new factory. We first reported LMT’s [Read More…]
The Estonian Defence Ministry and LMT Defense have signed the contract to provide Estonia’s Defence Forces with an initial procurement of 16,000 rifles. We’ve reported on LMT’s success in the Estonian rifle trials previously, reporting their selection [Read More…]
LMT Defense has announced the opening of their new facility located in Eldridge, Iowa. The construction works of the facility began in 2018. This decision was made to allow the company to expand and fulfill the new orders and contracts, namely, the recent Estonian [Read More…]
LMT Defense have confirmed their award of the contract for the Estonian Defence Forces new 5.56×45 and 7.62x51mm rifles. We have been closely following the Estonian rifle trials here at TFB and back in December 2018, we reported that Estonia’s military had [Read More…]
LMT Defense (Lewis Machine & Tool Company) attended SHOT Show’s “Industry Day at the Range” and brought with them some very cool firearms like many companies in attendance. All of our left-handed shooters in the audience will be glad to hear that [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV’s continuing #SHOTShow coverage for 2019, James visits the LMT booth on the SHOT Show floor to check out their newest integrally suppressed close quarter battle AR-15 as well as their new 37 mm and 40 mm grenade launchers, including an unbelievably compact shorty 40 [Read More…]
A while back I took delivery of a Trijicon AccuPoint 5-20×50 for T&E, and I just recently got it mounted on a rifle and was able to take it out and start messing around with it on the range. I shot this scope alongside a completely different scope from Leupold [Read More…]
The New Zealand Herald has reported that the 9,040 LMT 5.56x45mm MARS-L rifles purchased by the New Zealand Defense Force have suffered critical parts breakage in certain components of the rifles, specifically the firing pins, bolt carriers and inside the trigger [Read More…]
At Poland’s MSPO 2018 exposition LMT have had their new Confined Space Weapon (CSW) on display. The LMT CSW is a suppressed PDW chambered in .300 Blackout with an extended forend covering the weapon’s suppressor. Poland’s MilMag have some photographs [Read More…]
Over the last few month the New Zealand Army has begun fielding its new standard issue infantry rifle, the LMT MARS-L. The MARS-L is replacing the F88 Austeyr which has been in service since 1988. The decision was made to replace the Stey AUG-based F88 in 2015, [Read More…]
As previously reported Estonia is in the process of selecting a new service rifle. Estonia is moving forward with further testing of rifles submitted by three manufacturers. The contract is reported to be worth €75 million (approx. $86 million) and calls for as many [Read More…]
In today’s episode, we follow Miles to Shot Show 2018 Media Day at the Range and visit the Lewis Machine and Tool (LMT) booth. Adam from LMT introduces us to their new AR platform in .224 Valkyrie and the great potential of this impressive new cartridge. The Valkyrie allows for a great deal of [Read More…]