Now before we trigger a bunch of millennials here, I too, had overlooked Federal Premium Syntech ammunition (and technically I am a millennial… sadly). So what is so special about Syntech ammunition? It has a red coated bullet. It is affectionately or [Read More…]
In this article, we’ll talk about a German YouTube channel called Low Ready Media. This channel is one of the few non-US gun media sources that create a high-quality video content. It is also a good example to start a discussion about the gun culture outside of [Read More…]
AC-Unity is a firearms and accessories manufacturing company located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They have recently started exporting new quad stack 60-round 7.62x39mm AK magazines to the USA. This company and its products are mostly unknown to the American gun [Read More…]
A couple of months ago, TFB’s own Miles V in the second part of his interview with George Huang, the founder of Battle Arms Development, has reported that among other new products the company was also developing barrels for Glock pistols. These new barrels are [Read More…]
First introduced at TriggrCon 2018 arms exhibition, Grey Ghost Precision Combat Pistol is now available for preorder. In order to avoid confusion, let me tell you right away that mechanically this is not a new handgun but rather a highly customized compact size Glock [Read More…]
McMillan Fiberglass Stocks has published a video where Kelly McMillan tells about the new injection-molded polymer stocks made by the company’s division called McCubed (MC3). The company has also announced that these stocks are now available for preorder with [Read More…]
Today, Kalashnikov Group (Russia) presented new assault rifle prototype called AK-308 at the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2018” According to the press release: “Weapon is based on AK-103 with certain design features taken from AK-12 and is [Read More…]
The Polish Prison Service has signed a contract to procure 350 semi automatic Beretta ARX160A3 carbines. These have been procured through a Polish company UMO. The Beretta reportedly beat out a number of other competitors to win the contract. The Polish prison service, [Read More…]
Your enemy is the best teacher when it comes to combat. In a move that appears to be imitating what the Kachin Independence Army pioneered in 2010 when it comes to bullet trap rifle grenades being fired from locally assembled Type 81 derivatives (the Chinese Type 81 [Read More…]
Images appearing on Burmese media networks have revealed that the Burmese state-run Defense Industries corporation has prototyped at least three different anti-materiel rifles (AMR), putting at least on of them into production and getting them into Tatmadaw service. [Read More…]
The Department of Defense has announced the award of an $8 million contract to the Michigan-based sight manufacturing company Trijicon for ‘handgun reflex sights’ on behalf of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane. The award fulfils the RFP to meet a [Read More…]
The Twitter analyst Everest65 has shared photographs of some bullpup Kalashnikov experimentation within the arms trade social media groups in Syria. There are a couple of iterations of the design, some appear to be more experimental and might be low in production while [Read More…]
US Department of Defence has published on their website a contract award announcement telling about a US Navy contract awarded to Trijicon for delivery of handgun reflex sights. Although the model of the sight is not specified, I think it is safe to say that the subject [Read More…]
This is a challenge, and a struggle. How do you describe a firearm that you have seen, examined but there is really nothing available in terms of facts? I saw this revolving shotgun from Yazicilarav at IWA Germany earlier this year, but I couldn’t find any [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Media has published an article telling about an experimental pistol called PS-15 Drel (Russian: Дрель, means “drill”). This handgun was chambered in 5.45x18mm. It was designed in the ’90s by the request of Russian Ministry of [Read More…]
StingerWorx has introduced a new 30 caliber suppressor called Hunter. It is based on their Emperor suppressor design but unlike the latter which is a full-auto rated one, the Hunter is designed for use with bolt action rifles. It has a lighter and simpler design and it [Read More…]
In an interview given to the Ukrainian UATV news channel, Ross Spagrud, the owner of PGW Defence Technologies Inc., confirmed that the company has been awarded a contract to deliver .50 caliber LRT-3 anti-materiel/sniper rifles to Ukraine. The total sum of the contract [Read More…]
SIG Sauer have announced that Alabama’s Montgomery Police Department will be adopting the SIG P320 as their next official duty pistol. The department has over 500 officers, currently armed with Glocks. SIG have been enjoying a steady stream of law enforcement [Read More…]
TFB’s Nathaniel F wrote about Kinetic Research Group’s new SOTIC Precision Rifle at the beginning of the year, when it was shown at SHOT Show. After the usual delays the SOTIC rifle is now online for ordering and delivery (since spring time they claim). Below: [Read More…]
Crosman Corporation, one of the leading companies in the air guns and accessories market, has published a press release announcing the change of the company’s name. The new name is Velocity Outdoor. According to the company, the name change is done to better [Read More…]
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Cerakote has published a video showing torture testing of their MC-5100 clear coating for aluminum. They applied the Clear – Aluminum coating to half of an aluminum tank surface leaving the second half uncoated. Then they applied various chemicals (drain cleaner, [Read More…]
Vortex has introduced two new first focal plane riflescopes called Diamondback Tactical FFP. They are available in 6-24×50 and 4-16×44 versions. These are arguably some of the most affordable FFP scopes available on the market that are made by a reputable [Read More…]
In Sweden a 48 year old activist is suspected to have built a special case to house a handgun, among other illegal activities. There are some similarities with the HK MP5k suitcase (reviewed here by TFB’s Nicholas C), but the home built version pictured looks a [Read More…]
Circle 10 AK has announced on their social media pages that Century Arms will start importing again the Romanian PSL rifles. The company will offer two versions of the newly imported PSLs that will differ in the scopes they will come with. One version will have a [Read More…]
The US Army has officially cancelled its XM25 ‘Punisher’ Counter Defilade Target Engagement weapon system after years of development and funding problems. The program first ran into trouble back in 2016, when the Department of Defense Inspector General [Read More…]
Taisei Komatsu, the man behind Komatsu Factory’s impressive wooden gun replicas, has been hosted by FB Radom enjoying a tour of the factory and getting some time behind the company’s weapons. Komatsu’s work gained attention when his highly detailed [Read More…]
In the announcement of the release of this product as well as in its description on their website, Ranger Point Precision points out that this hammer spur extension for Marlin lever action rifles was designed based on the features requested by the customers. [Read More…]
Gunwerks has introduced a new lightweight bolt-action rifle designed primarily for hunting in mountainous terrain. The new rifle is called ClymR. It has some interesting core features as well as a number of customization options that allow the customers to build the [Read More…]
Strike Industries has introduced a new QD mount called LINK. If you are familiar with the products of this company, then you must have guessed that it should not be just another QD mount. The LINK is an angled mount which once mounted onto the weapon provides a QD [Read More…]
At the end of July, we reported that SIG Sauer had been awarded the $48 million contract to provide US SOCOM’s Suppressed Upper Receiver Group or SURG. At the time there was no confirmation of what form this new SURG took. SIG Sauer has since released a press [Read More…]
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