Hello and welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 69! With the Thanksgiving holiday over, we are well on our way to Christmas and the new year, both of which usually bring new additions to our firearms collections whether they be brand-new offerings on the market or ones [Read More…]
Hello and welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 70. Everyone here in the TFB bullpen is getting amped up for SHOT Show 2023 with tons of expected and unknown firearms, gear, and ammunition to be revealed at the annual expo. This week we’ve brought you a few good episodes [Read More…]
Longtime readers and viewers of TFB and TFBTV will know Miles V fairly well. Miles is most well known for covering a lot of older firearms, their history, how they were used, as well as who they were used by. Miles is also fairly well known for just how well-traveled he [Read More…]
Hello everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Behind The Gun podcast. Last week we spoke with two of TFB’s editors, Matt and Hrachya. This week we get a rare chance to nail down long-time TFB and TFBtv contibutor Miles Vining. Miles is a man-of-the-world who is [Read More…]
Good morning firearms lovers and thanks for joining us on the latest episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun podcast. Last week we talked with Aaron Hampton from EOTECH – who I personally thought was a great interview. This week we dive into the internal workings of the [Read More…]
The AKS74U is perhaps one of the more interesting Kalashnikov variants that has spawned a following all over the world due to its compact size and effects as a status symbol in the United States, Middle East, and Central Asia. The name itself is one such example of that following that continues [Read More…]
Kyrgyzstan is one of the former Soviet Republics that is not on the firearms media radar too much today, but there is certainly a civilian firearm following in the capital of Bishkek where we went to talk to shop owners, shooters, and instructors about some of the trends and interests in Kyrgyzstan. [Read More…]
I think we can all agree that for better or worse, outside of gunsmithing colleges there has been a poor representation of the study of firearms within any university certainly in the United States, possibly in the world as well. Again I say this emphasizing “for [Read More…]
At this year’s KADEX 2018 held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the Kazakh state-owned GIS Center had a virtual reality headset that is designed to work with a Kalashnikov-patterned service rifle. The headset portion integrates (and likely licenses) software from a Russian [Read More…]
To be quite honest, the old Kabul Arsenal never needed to be “relocated” as it had never been lost, destroyed, or otherwise essentially altered. What this post is adding to the conversation is that someone who had a very legitimate interest in the arsenal [Read More…]
The ability to execute complex operations in conditions of low light or complete darkness has been an asset unique to NATO militaries since the 1990s when fighting against local insurgencies. Often within planning sessions for OIF, OEF, or the current Resolute Support [Read More…]
Select-fire 5.56x45mm NATO Beretta ARX-160 rifles have been adopted en masse by the Turkmen armed forces, most recently seen in the media through the 26th anniversary of the country’s Independence Day parade held in the capital of Ashgabat. Replacing previous AKM [Read More…]
A recent photograph has been posted on the Kurdish forum Kurdistan Sky Scrapers depicting a Peshmerga fighter with a Beretta Defense Technology 5.56x45mm NATO ARX 160A2 with a 12 inch barrel instead of a standard 16 inch. The rifle sports factory sights, and has an [Read More…]
In our final installment of looking at the handmade wonders of the gunmaking village of Darra Adam Khel, we finish it off with an in-depth examination of the Krinkov patterned Kalashnikovs produced in the village. Some of them display an excellent resemblance to the original AKS74Us, however others [Read More…]
Recent photographic evidence has shown that Assad’s Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is equipped with DNS-1 Day & Night Vision Sights from the Belarusian company “Belarusian Optical & Mechanical Association”. These optics have been seen mounted on both [Read More…]
Malhama Tactical is a Youtube and Twitter tactical training entity that is the creation of a certain Abu Rofiq, an Uzbek who claims to have served in the Russian Airborne Forces. Rofiq speaks Russian, and all his media is also in Russian, but that doesn’t [Read More…]
German firearm giant Heckler & Koch has finally given up selling firearms to countries that are not NATO Members or NATO Partners following years of concerted effort by the German government to hamstring the company’s export sales. Reuters reports … [Read More…]
The story of the M1 Garand in Iran highlights a tale of interwoven politics that spans decades and is still being seen today. More than just the story of a service rifle in the Middle East, North Africa, (MENA)/Central Asia region, it crosses political and historical [Read More…]
This article is an English-language translation of an article written for Мир увлечений: Охота & Оружие (World of Hobbies: Hunting & Weapons) magazine, by Andrey Donets and Dmytro Adyeyev. TFB reader dnepr0mike graciously aided the [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…]
South Korea looks to be the first country to deploy a next-gen airburst grenade / assault rifle weapon in combat. Korea Times reports … South Korean troops to be deployed in Afghanistan will be armed with the latest K-11 airburst assault rifles for self-defense, [Read More…]
Happy November everybody! Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday (yes even over Christmas) and it also happens to be one of the best times of the year to pick up sweet deals on guns, ammo, and gear for yourself, your friends, and your loved ones. We have a lot to [Read More…]
If you gave me 6 million dollars to build a house, said house would absolutely contain: Guns on walls; A Star Wars room; Batman; Mounds of cocaine. And apparently, photos of Dr. Phil’s house – now for sale – show that he and I have the same taste in [Read More…]
According to a recently published interview with the current director of Česká Zbrojovka in a Czech media platform, the small arms company is currently in the process of launching a small arms plant in Egypt. The director Lubomír Kovařík mentioned in the interview [Read More…]
I was compiling my database of all my firearms, pictures of them and their serial numbers when at the end of my cataloging, I realized I had 18 guns. That’s not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things to do with collecting but it is alot for me. More importantly [Read More…]
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…]
Browsing the Kahr Arms website, I noticed an advertisement (pictured below) that claimed Kahr was 100% American owned and operated. This surprised me because it is commonly accepted that the company is owned by the Unification Church of South Korea. Wikipedia states [Read More…]
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