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The ACCU-GRIP is a new two piece AR-15 pistol grip that can be adjusted forward/back so that the correct part of your trigger finger naturally rests on trigger, regardless of the size of your hand. It is being sold for $59.95.
Boberg Arms Corporation is now manufacturing machined billet aluminum AR-15 lowers. According to Boberg, CDH stands for Cold Dead Hands. The CDH-15 offers “guaranteed fit and function to ensure complete compatibility” with your upper. It is machined from [Read More…]
Bushmaster Firearms is now making the M4-style Patrolman’s Carbine with Cerakote finishes. Currently, two finishes are offered: olive drab (OD) green and flat dark earth (FDE). The rifle’s furniture is black as is the barrel, front sight and carry [Read More…]
The lucky folks at Modern Pawn and Guns, Corpus Christi TX, seems to consistently get hold of new guns before anyone else. They managed to get hold of the much anticipated LWRC Six8 UCIW Rifle, the new Magpul 6.8mm SPC PMAG and the new Federal/ATK XM6.8GD 90 [Read More…]
Dynamic Arms Research is a high-end German manufacturer of AR-15 rifles. DAR manufacture their own uppers, lowers, rails and muzzle brakes. They use Lothar Walther barrels and Magpul stocks and magazines. They are chambered in .223 Rem., .300 Whisper and 6.8mm [Read More…]
DRD Tactical, the company that bought us the innovate stealthy Paratus-16, have now developed an AR-15 upper receiver that uses the same quick change/detach barrel and handguard system as the Paratus-16. The rail/handguard unit can be quickly detached from the [Read More…]
Wilson Combat has been making several top of the line AR-15 variants for awhile now. They aren’t afraid to embrace unusual concepts that some would say are forward thinking, and others would dismiss as too oddball or unproven. Their 7.62×40 WT caliber [Read More…]
A photo posted on MP.net purports to show a member of the new Libyan Armed Forces with a new AR-15 in a short barreled rifle configuration. The rifle, a Oberland Arms OA-15 M7, has ambidextrous controls, a barrel of 8″, it has a SOPMOD-style stock, the scope is [Read More…]
Caracal has unveiled their first service rifle, the CAR 816. The CAR 816, as its name suggests, is based on the M4 / AR-15 and is chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO. It is gas piston operated. The rifle will be available in either a black or Flat Dark Earth [Read More…]
Bushmaster Firearms is starting to use Magpul MOE stocks on a lot of their rifles. Among the rifles now sporting MOE gear are the company’s Varminter, Predator and 308 Hunter lines. Four different Bushmaster Varminter rifles are now using the Magpul stocks: [Read More…]
Wired Magazine has published an excellent long form article explaining what the AR-15 is and what it is not to Wired’s geek/tech audience. From the morning that ArmaLite opened its doors in 1954 to the present, most of the innovation that has gone into the AR-15 [Read More…]
As many readers know my family and I have a cattle ranch in the highlands of central New Mexico. In order to effectively manage our herds and mitigate calf mortality, coyotes and other predators must be culled. Aside from coyotes…there has been a recent surge in [Read More…]
762PR Defence PR borrowed a Heckler & Koch G28, the Bundeswehr’s new Designated Marksman Rifle, from a local dealer for a photo shoot they were doing for one of their clients. The photos of are beautiful, as is the rifle … I had [Read More…]
For those unfamiliar with the concept of Back-Up Iron Sights (BUIS), they are just that, irons that fold out of the way when not in use, but can be quickly flipped up if for some reason an optic fails, and the shooter needs to be able to aim without the optic. Such a [Read More…]
SIG Sauer introduced the new M400 Predator at the recent SHOT Show in Las Vegas. The M400 Predator is a AR-style rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO and set up for hunters. The rifle has a match-grade heavy barrel with fluting to reduce the overall weight. The barrel has a [Read More…]
If the pink rifle phenomenon taught us anything, its that there is a large market for guns that are not black in color. Colt Defense, the original maker of the Black Rifle itself, is now offer the AR-15 in a range of colorful patterns. From the press release … [Read More…]
There have been many advances in polymer technology in recent years. These advances have been primarily in the area of accessories as far as AR15’s are concerned. ATI is moving ahead with a new major component for the AR15 constructed of polymer.The lower is [Read More…]
Remington will now include Magpul MOE accessories on their R-15 line of rifles. According to Remington, the company will have a line of four R-15 MOE rifles that will include Magpul pistol grips, trigger guards, stocks and handguards. The four rifles will include a [Read More…]
At the 2013 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, DPMS announced the addition of two new .22 LR AR-style rifles to their line of guns. The new “DPMS Mil-Std 22LR” rifles use mil-spec receivers, which means they are not limited to rimfire should you decide to bolt on an [Read More…]
Joost, a reader of TFB, emailed us a sketch of an idea he had. He wrote … The entire idea is basically deviding the pressure that goes trough a single gas-tube trough a dual-gas tube system, splitting the amount of gas 50/50 in the (low profile) gas block, and [Read More…]
Blue Force Gear collaborated with Chris Costa to design a tactical satchel for carrying submachine guns or PDW-style short barreled rifles that looked as little tactical as possible. The result was the Hive Satchel with its very [Read More…]
Bushmaster is now offering an upper for the .300 BLACKOUT (aka 300 BLK or 300 AAC BLACKOUT) cartridge. The uppers use a light contour barrel with a black Melonite coating. Barrel length is 16″. The AAC Blackout 51T ratchet mount flash hider is used on these [Read More…]
KNS Precision manufacture a number of AR-15 accessories including a rifle machine gun-like spade grip, a tripod mount and a GoPro video camera mount. At SHOT Show they had all three hooked up to a short barreled AR-15. The end result looked awesome and must be a lot [Read More…]
POF-USA’s new “Enhanced Finger Placement” trigger is a single-stage, 4.5lb pull, non-adjustable, drop-in trigger. It “naturally guides the tip of your finger to the same resting place for a precise, smooth, consistant trigger squeeze every single [Read More…]
For those of you who can no longer find standard 30-round rifle magazines on store shelves, X Products may be able to fill that need. X Products has a 50 round drum that can fit a variety of rifles from the AR-10/15, M1A, M14, M249 SAW, FN SCAR 16, M-4/16, and many [Read More…]
My main mission at SHOT has been interviewing AR-15 makers for a longer piece that I’m working on, and as part of that project I’ll be publishing edited transcripts and information from those interviews here on TFB. Specifically, I’ll be focused on [Read More…]
New for 2013, the LaRue Tactical in 7.62 is notable for it’s QD (quick-detachable) handguard. LaRue claims that after the rifle is reassembled that it will shoot a grouping within .25 MOA of the prior one before disassembly. The QD handguard feature is useful if [Read More…]
One of the new rifles unveiled this week was the Smith & Wesson M&P-10. Their website currently only lists a camouflage version with a Magpul stock and five round magazine for an MSRP $1,729.00. My guess is the rifle shown here is going to be a bit less. Note [Read More…]
The new Stag Arms 8T is based on the established piston carbine that’s been out a few years. Call this an upgrade if you will. What Stag has done is change some previous standard parts. The primary difference is in the modular free-floating VRS-T rail system they [Read More…]
Before I talk about my favorite gun from SHOT Show’s Media Day, I need to make a confession in order to set some context: I’m completely new to the AR platform. I grew up hunting, and until very recently, all of the guns that I own and shoot are classic [Read More…]
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