US Tactical Supply is offering the SUPCOV suppressor cover. The SUPCOV is a low-profile composite material cover that slips over a suppressor to mitigate mirage by more effectively combating heat build-up and dissipating it more effectively. The US Army is requiring a [Read More…]
Thompson Machine, a Florida-based suppressor manufacturer, posted a video of the Zephyr L in action. The Zephyr L is a 3.2 oz sound suppressor that uses a three piece design and is able to be disassembled for cleaning. In this video, the can is attached to a SIG SAUER [Read More…]
Mike Pappas, formerly of SilencerCo, is coming to market via Dead Air Armaments with a three new suppressors; the 7.62 Sandman line. From the press release: The 7.62 Sandman-S® delivers performance in a small package. The “S” stands for short, measuring in [Read More…]
Disclaimer: For the purpose of this article, the term “machine pistol” refers to fully automatic conventionally laid out handguns, not submachine guns, PDWs, or obscenely large pistol-like firearms such as M10s. Also, for video, scroll to the bottom. Machine [Read More…]
Not something you normally see at the range. This happened while my wife was visiting some co-workers in Salt Lake City. They took her and their kids to shoot some guns out in the desert. Just some shotguns and some pistols. They were visited by an Apache Helicopter. [Read More…]
**Scroll to the bottom for video of the M712 shooting full automatic** The Mauser “Broomhandle” pistols are about as steampunk as you can get with a factory stock firearm, but their unique appearance is only a part of their allure. The Broomhandle family provides an [Read More…]
Companies are coming out with QD covers for muzzle devices. Griffin Armament has their QD Blast Shield. It slips over their muzzle devices and locks in place. According to Griffin Armament: The Griffin QD Blast Shield is compatible with our line of QD 5.56mm mounts, [Read More…]
Kaboom! Bang! Explosions downrange, machine guns going off, helicopters flying overhead, entire belts of tracers stitching their way across the range in the darkness. You’ve all seen it, the famous Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot through Youtube videos or various [Read More…]
TFB’s serial adventurer Claymore sent me this photo of the M16A1 Carbine he purchased in the early 1980s. Claymore writes … This was one of the first NFA firearms I bought after getting my S.O.T. Had to be about 1983 or so. At that time dealers could get one [Read More…]
French company ALSETEX was showing off their mockup of a new straight-pull grenade launcher, the Cougar, at Eurosatory 2014. Unlike other smart-grenade launchers like the XM25 or Daewoo K11, the Cougar does not use a heavy and complicated “smart” sighting [Read More…]
Frequent TFB commenter JNZ emailed us a photo of his new long range rifle that he will be using over the winter while a fully custom rifle is built for him. It is a Tikka T3 CTR in .308 topped off with a Leupold Mark6 TMR scope and Surefire Socom 762-RC suppressor. [Read More…]
Silencerco posted up a video mixing Halloween and some of their silencers. It is rather creepy but you get to watch pumpkins and other various Halloween decorations get shot up in slow motion. They use an AR with the NEA CSS along with a Benelli shotgun and a Glock with [Read More…]
For a change I thought I would feature an interesting military munition for todays POTD. A reader sent us this photo asking if we could identify it and if it was a real cartridge. It is indeed real, but it is not a firearm cartridge. This round is a 30mm AHEAD Air [Read More…]
I regularly get emails from people asking me to tell them how to do something illegal. Often these people phrase the questions they ask in such a way as to trick me into telling them how to break the law. Today someone told me his friends and him were having a debate [Read More…]
Battlecomp has released the long-awaited suppressor compatible 51.0 Battlecomp compensator. Their latest iteration includes thread and ratchet cuts for 51T AAC-style suppressors, making it immediately compatible with AAC and SilencerCo can. The new 51.0 is currently for [Read More…]
MyGunCulture is reporting that SilencerCo has released threaded barrels for Glock and Sig Sauer pistols. The notable feature is SilcencerCo designed them specifically for suppressor use and avoiding baffle strikes. The barrels are held to an extremely high tolerance [Read More…]
I thought they just made jets and discontinued automobiles. Saab Defense just unveiled their updated Carl Gustaf 84mm weapon system at AUSA 2014. It is called the M4 Multipurpose Weapon. It is to replace the more commonly known M3 Multi-role Anti-armor Anti-tank Weapon [Read More…]
The Browning M2 Machine Gun is the the stuff legends are made of. This gun was designed in 1918 and has been in continuous service since 1933. It is used by 100 nations and few improvements to the system have been made (new versions sport a spiffy flash hider and a QD [Read More…]
The Washington Post has been following an unusual Government procurement during the investigation and now prosecution phases. In short, a little-known program office attempted to procure suppressors from a mechanic, at quite a premium. For what would seem to be an [Read More…]
Kyle sent us this photo of a PPSh-41 with an interesting carved stock. He took this photo at the Latvian War Museum in Riga, Latvia. The stock is carved with what looks to be angels, oak leaves and an eagle. There are words scratched into it. If any Latvians [Read More…]
Rat Worx and Manticore Arms have teamed up to bring an integrated suppressor and rail system to the market for the 9mm IWI TAVOR called the ZRX. The package will include the Manticore Arms rail system along with a new muzzle brake and a suppressor stack for a total [Read More…]
Fully automatic firearms have never been illegal in the United States on a federal level. As a matter of fact, there are over 180,000 legally owned machine guns in the country but the registry was closed in 1986 (no new machine guns can be owned by non-dealers, we [Read More…]
Now available to the general public, Kyle (FPSRussia) got one of the first cracks at the Ohio Ordnance Works Heavy Counter-Assault Rifle. Ohio left no portion of the design untouched, stripped significant weight from the design and adding modern touches including a [Read More…]
The Projected Recoilless Improvised Grenade (PRIG) was a shoulder fired weapon developed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) for use against lightly armored vehicles. It is perhaps the most ingenious example of kitchen cupboard improvisation to date. The [Read More…]
I love the photo but sadly it was taken of a deactivated MP5 (due to Austrian gun laws). Thanks to Gregor for sending it in. Submit photos you have taken to TFB’s Photo Of The Day.
Police in Sydney, Australia have arrested a suspected manufacturer and supplier of pen guns, an increasingly popular weapon among Australia’s world famous gasoline marauding biker gangs. The examples seized are extremely minimal in design, the suspected culprit [Read More…]
Being a gun nut and a traveller, I really wanted to visit Switzerland for a long time. This October I finally put these plans to life, and made a week-long leisure trip across the German-speaking part of Switzerland with my wife. Our main goal was just to see the [Read More…]
Here is a rare occurrence. A KRISS Vector having an out of battery detonation. Tyler Moore, sent me pictures of his Vector’s malfunction. Here is the brass that caused the problem. According to Tyler on KRISSTALK.com: Sooo, on my fifth round at the range this [Read More…]
World renowned gun expert and author Max Popenker took this photo recently in Switzerland. Apparently the Swiss have some serious machine gun collectors. Max writes … Small part of a typical Swiss gun collection. And, by the way, I was told that, according to [Read More…]