I’m sure most of you have noticed that the price of just about everything including, guns, ammunition, and gear is only getting more expensive as the year progresses. While the discussion on why that is happening can be had elsewhere, what hope do we gun owners [Read More…]
Many discount programs out there focus heavily on law enforcement and military personnel. However, Springfield Armory’s new FIRSTLINE discount program aims to extend its discounted deals to more than just MIL and LE personnel. The new FIRSTLINE program extends [Read More…]
Those who live in the Mid-South might be interested to hear that the Remington has just opened its new Gun Club and Sporting Clays Course to the public and is currently hosting its inaugural Spring League. This new sporting clays course and the gun club are located [Read More…]
Yesterday, the US Army announced the selection of SIG Sauer’s weapons and 6.8 hybrid metallic cased ammunition as the Next Generation Squad Weapons System (NGSW). Read the US Army’s selection announcement and our round-up of the NGSW program in full here. [Read More…]
In my search for a few select models of Knight’s Armament rifle suppressors for reviews on TFB’s Silencer Saturday, I have contacted hundreds of FFL/SOT dealers across the United States hoping to get lucky and find one collecting dust on the shelf. I was pleasantly [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is a set of pictures of a special James Purdey & Sons shotgun dubbed the US Centenary Gun. This shotgun was created in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Athol Purdey’s first sales trip to the United States of America. [Read More…]
Norma Precision Ammunition, a subsidiary of Swedish company RUAG Ammotec, will be setting up their headquarters, factory and distribution hubs in Chatham County, Georgia. The state’s governor, Brian Kemp, released a statement announcing the news on 11 April. The [Read More…]
Many of you will be familiar with Shoot Like A Girl. Shoot Like A Girl is a marketing company focused on getting more women into shooting and hunting sports and they’ve just announced a brand new partnership for their 2022 “Sea to Shining Sea” tour [Read More…]
Primary Weapons Systems is well known in the firearms industry as a quality rifle component company and has grown rapidly since its formation in 2008. One of the largest firearms manufacturers in the Northwest United States, PWS quickly grew from making accessories like [Read More…]
The Ruger SR22 is a fun, compact-sized 22LR pistol that comes in various configurations and varieties ranging from a bone stock pistol all the way up to some raced-out versions from the folks at Talo and Iron Valley distributors. Ruger announced on April 4th, 2022 that [Read More…]
The National Firearms Act (NFA) and the administrative, regulatory, and legal processes required to support it, are a de facto ban on firearms or accessories like silencers. There, I said it. But because the NFA is the law of the land, we have two choices if we want to [Read More…]
MidwayUSA announced a while back that they had begun construction on the single largest project in the company’s entire history – a new distribution center. MidwayUSA, like the rest of the gun industry, has seen explosive growth over the last 10 years and as [Read More…]
Arms of America, an importer and seller of Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and parts kits, has announced that it is supporting Ukraine with every case of Russian ammo sold. All proceeds from these sales will be donated directly to a Ukrainian charity. This is unsurprising [Read More…]
The US Army has released a sources sought notice for a 6.8mm conversion kit for the M240B and M240L machine guns. The kit will convert the weapons from 7.62x51mm to the 6.8mm round which wins the Next Generation Squad Weapon program. The move is essentially market [Read More…]
When it comes to distributing firearm products, there seems to be a lot of gaps that are left unfilled with information or product information when it finally makes it to market. That is why the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers has been working on [Read More…]
In the fall of 2021, FEDEX completely stopped all private party shipping of handguns which left customers with only a single entity to ship handguns with – UPS. For 2022, FedEx also announced that it wouldn’t be handling any shipping of firearms unless the [Read More…]
The Italian Firearms Group (IFG) was established in 2010 and imports guns of the following four Italian gunmakers: F.A.I.R., Sabatti, Pedersoli and last but not least Tanfoglio. IFG and Tanfoglio have expanded their relationship and from now on Tanfoglio will only be [Read More…]
Brooksville, Florida-based Adams Arms have been fulfilling a contract to produce carbines for Ukraine. Adams Arms haven’t stipulated which branch of the Ukrainian Armed Forces or Security Services the carbines are for but they stated that they have been working on [Read More…]
With the events in Ukraine still unfolding, some companies have kept quiet while others have spoken out. ATN Corp is one of the latter. ATN Corp shows no intention of keeping its voice muffled, and has announced its support for Ukraine against Russia’s invading [Read More…]
Beretta Holding continues its streak of acquisitions and consolidation on the market. After years of work in this direction, and months of rumors in the market, the Holding can officialize the first step of full acquisition of the Swiss ammunition manufacturer RUAG [Read More…]
In this episode of the TFB Behind the Gun podcast, we’re back at SHOT Show 2022 with Joel Hodgdon and the Remington Arms Company. Pete and Joel are here to talk a bit about how the last two years have affected the longstanding arms manufacturer and what Remington [Read More…]
AMMO Inc announced today that it would be offering one million rounds of small arms ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. AMMO Inc is not selling this ammunition but rather offering to donate it to the Ukrainian military after the company heard President [Read More…]
The launch of a new sister brand for Modular Driven Technologies (MDT) has just been announced. MambaMag is intended to provide shooters with quality aftermarket magazines for factory rifles that increase their overall magazine capacity. This supposedly allows you to [Read More…]
Henry Repeating Arms shipped its first H001 Classic .22 rifle in March of 1997. 25 Years, 200 different models, and a ton of rifle and shotgun sales later, Henry is celebrating being a vibrant part of the US firearms industry for a quarter-century. Their lineup [Read More…]
The Firearm Blog has been a resource for the worldwide firearm community for more than 15 years. With a diverse collection of staff from every continent, the power of TFB comes from the ability of each author to focus on topics that they know and love as well as the [Read More…]
TriStar Arms has been offering years of quality service with a wide selection of firearms including pistols, shotguns, and rifles for just about every discipline of shooting. Most recently popular among their products are probably TriStar’s line of Bristol SxS [Read More…]
During SHOT 2022 we reported that True Velocity and Beretta USA were to partner production of TV’s NGSW weapon and development of the rifle for international and commercial sale! True Velocity have taken another step toward commercial sales of the 6.8mm bullpup. [Read More…]
You read that title right, Expansion Industries have just announced that they will be opening up a new facility in what used to be the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant. The new facility will be located near the company’s headquarters in Carrollton, TX. With the [Read More…]
FN America have ussed a safety bulletin for FN 502 Tactical .22LR owners to check that their manual safeties are installed properly. The bulletin comes after “a very limited number of… pistols in the field” were found to potentially have [Read More…]
We’ve know for a while that Beretta was partnered with General Dynamics on their NGSW submission – the bullpup RM277. Well GD have divested to True Velocity and Lone Star Future Weapons but Beretta have confirmed their continuing involvement in the project. [Read More…]