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Being a lifelong firearms enthusiast, Hrachya always enjoys studying the history and design of guns and ammunition. He also writes for OvertDefense.com and SilahReport.com
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A couple of weeks ago we took a look at the new aluminum AK stocks from Kalashnikov USA’s Premium K-Series line of AK accessories. This family of KUSA products also has a wide selection of wood furniture sets for AKs with 5.5mm side folding rear trunnions. [Read More…]
SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute) have published cartridge and chamber drawings of a new rimfire cartridge called 21 Sharp which was developed and submitted for SAAMI acceptance by Olin Winchester. While this new cartridge uses a non-heeled [Read More…]
Devil Dog Concepts came up with an AR-10 version of their Hard Charger AR-15 side charging handle. Like the Hard Charger, the new Devil Dog Concepts HC-10 is a drop-in product that replaces the standard charging handle providing a left-side non-reciprocating charging [Read More…]
Kalashnikov USA have added two new aluminum AK stocks to their KUSA Premium K-Series line of AK parts and accessories. One of the new stocks is telescoping and is compatible with fixed-stock rear trunnions. The second one has no length of pull adjustment mechanism and [Read More…]
Benelli USA have announced a limited edition version of their Lupo bolt-action rifle dubbed Lupo KAOS. What sets the Lupo KAOS apart from regular Lupo rifles of similar configuration is the custom Cerakote finish of the stock, receiver and barrel. Let’s take a [Read More…]
Matrix Arms entered the handgun market about a year ago with the release of their MX19 line of Glock 19 parts-compatible pistols. The main feature that sets the MX19 pistols apart from other handguns on the market that use G19 parts is the machined aluminum frame. The [Read More…]
As the company’s name implies, Magne-Tech is specialized in designing firearm accessories that use magnets. Earlier we published an article about their magnetic accessory mounting system. Today we’ll take a look at a new product by Magne-Tech, the Magnetic [Read More…]
Adopted by the Russian military in 2018, the AK-12 rifle has since gone through several revisions that resulted in some design changes such as the replacement of the AR15-style stock and the introduction of the one-piece polymer pistol grip/trigger guard. Kalashnikov [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is from the catalog of Rock Island Auction Company’s upcoming Sporting & Collector Firearms Auction. It depicts a rotary manually operated firearm that is built with six Norinco SKS rifles. In other words, it’s an SKS [Read More…]
Expanding their line of stripped pistol slides, Brownells have added options for full-size and compact SIG Sauer P320 pistols. The company advertises these slides as the “perfect companion “top-half” for a custom pistol build“. Let’s see what [Read More…]
Nosler entered the silencer market at the beginning of 2022 when they released their SR family of hunting rifle suppressors. The company is now expanding its suppressor product line and has just introduced the new SR-30 K or Nosler K-Can 30-caliber silencer (K stands [Read More…]
Back in September of 2022, the mad scientists at MDT built a bolt action rifle chambered in .308 Winchester that had a six-foot long barrel made by screwing together two barrels. As you can imagine, that’s not an easy task because you have to make sure that the [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics have announced a new series of AK rifles called Mark II which is based on their earlier released Quickhatch AK pistols. The main difference from their older rifle models is that instead of using standard AK lower handguards with UltiMAK railed gas tubes, [Read More…]
Fierce Firearms have released a new 45-caliber bolt action muzzleloading rifle called Carbon MZ PRO which is an improved version of their previous muzzleloaders. In bolt action muzzleloaders, the ignition element of the system (in this case Arrowhead GEN 2 LRMP [Read More…]
Kalashnikov USA entered the optics market back at the end of 2020 with the release of the BARS micro red dot sight. The company is now expanding its presence in this market and announced a new line of reflex sights called Core. According to Kalashnikov USA, these sights [Read More…]
Proof Research are expanding their rifle line into the rimfire world with the introduction of the new Latitude bolt action rifle. The Proof Research Latitude is a precision rimfire rifle built with premium components and comes with a factory guarantee of 1/2 MOA [Read More…]
One of the product lines of Italian firearm accessories manufacturer ROME (Rottigni Officina MEccanica) is a family of suppressors called Signum. The one we see in today’s Photo Of The Day is a big-bore can with an interesting fluted front design. The big-bore [Read More…]
North Forest Arms, a company located in Burlington, NC, makes interesting pistol night sights called Dual Picture sights. The rear sight of Dual Picture sights is a large aperture with a notch cut on top and tritium dots on its sides. The front sight houses a tritium [Read More…]
The Italian/American rifle stock manufacturer WOOX are expanding their line of hybrid aluminum/walnut stocks with the introduction of two new competition models dubbed Furiosa Ultra and Titano. The Furiosa Ultra is designed for Precision Rifle Series (PRS) and the [Read More…]
SIG Sauer AG, the Swiss small arms division of SIG Sauer, still produces the SG 550 series of rifles. The company shared this picture of an SG 553 R rifle on their social media pages. The main difference of this model from other SG 553 rifles is that it is chambered in [Read More…]
Finnish firearms manufacturer Sako have just released a new family of bolt action rifles called Sako 90 which is apparently the successor of the recently-discontinued Sako 85 line of rifles. The Sako 90 series will initially include seven models designed for different [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is by Detonics, a Czech company specializing in designing and manufacturing break-action multi-barrel firearms. Dubbed 6×9 Grim, this derringer/pistol is their newest product. It will be available in Europe chambered in 9mm Flobert, [Read More…]
Introduced at SHOT Show 2023, the Reap Weaponries Scy bullpup conversion kit for AR-15 pattern rifles is now available. The Scy is a drop-in kit that is attached to the lower receiver and handguard of the rifle providing a front pistol grip mount and linking the trigger [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day depicts a firearm with a very unusual combination of operating and feeding mechanisms. The pictures of this belt-fed lever action rifle were shared by FightLite Industries on their social media pages. The gun is apparently made by [Read More…]
Most of the My Friend knuckleduster wheelguns produced by James Reid were pepperboxes of various sizes and calibers. However, there is a very rare version of this 19th-century concealed carry gat that was fitted with a 3-inch barrel, which makes it a revolver. This [Read More…]
For today’s edition of Wheelgun Wednesday, we have another artifact of American history found in the catalogs of the Rock Island Auction Company. Consigned to the upcoming May 2023 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction, this Beaumont-Adams percussion revolver [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is from the catalog of the upcoming May 2023 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction and depicts a pair of damascened Orbea Hermanos pinfire revolvers. Damascening is a surface decoration technique of inlaying metals into one another, in this [Read More…]
The long-cylinder models of Magnum Research’s Biggest Finest Revolver are not only available chambered in the largest handgun cartridges such as the .460 and .500 Smith & Wesson Magnums but also in rifle cartridges. Particularly, the BFR is offered in the [Read More…]
Firearms designed by Florian Kohli of the Swiss company KUGS are always fascinating with many unique and unusual design solutions. A couple of KUGS guns we saw earlier are the FATBOY single-shot rifle that has a very simple design with a cannon-like sliding breech and [Read More…]
We first reported about the Simtek wireless security sensor from SHOT Show 2019. In a nutshell, it is a compact portable sensor that can be placed inside a gun safe and will send a notification to the owner’s cell phone if motion or lighting changes are detected. [Read More…]
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