The Turkish firearm component manufacturing company MERTSAV Defense has recently unveiled an under barrel 40x46mm Low-Velocity grenade launcher, as revealed by posts on Pakistan Defense forum. The launcher utilizes an M1913 Picatinny rail attachment system to marry to [Read More…]
Strike Industries has published on their social media pages images of a Glock 17 slide prototype that is expected to hit the shelves soon. Although no details are released concerning the materials, coatings, and design of this slide in general, we can still make some [Read More…]
Alexey Sudayev, a designer mostly known for creating the PPS-43 submachine gun, was also participating in the assault rifle trials which ultimately resulted in the adoption of the AK rifle. Recently, Kalashnikov Gun Magazine published a video showing and telling about [Read More…]
This is the first guest post by Grigory, author of “Kalashism” blog: https://www.instagram.com/kalashism/ Grigory is a passionate gun enthusiast and spent his entire career working in Russian military-industrial complex in various capacities. He travels a lot, [Read More…]
A recent flood of images from the excellent Turkish defense armaments based Twitter account Aybars have revealed that Turkish infantrymen are receiving the latest variant of the 7.62x51mm NATO MPT76 as a Designated Marksman’s Rifle. To be clear, this isn’t [Read More…]
Go ahead, change my mind. But to be clear, I’m referring to the silencer/suppressor world, where slinging heavy lead quietly through a proven semiautomatic platform is a requirement. I resisted the changeover to 300 Blackout for years, believing that 9mm was a [Read More…]
An organization called Alliance for Gun Responsibility has collected 360,000 signatures to get Initiative 1639, a firearms safety proposal on the November ballot. This initiative advertises that it will raise the legal age to purchase semi-automatic weapons in [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves looks at the Inland Manufacturing M30P – a “Tactical M1 Carbine”. While the M1 Carbine is roughly 90 years old, the M30P takes the proven M1 Carbine design and wraps it in the invincible Sage EBR chassis, which allows for easy optic and [Read More…]
Hitting our news desk in January, the Magpul suppressor cover promises to save you and your gear from burns caused by slinging a hot rifle. Even after only a few shots through a centerfire rifle setup, the outside of the suppressor can reach scalding temperatures. The [Read More…]
USA Firearms Corp. has announced that the Wildey Survivor pistol chambered in .44 Auto Mag is now available for preorder. Besides the complete pistol, you can also order barrel assemblies chambered in this caliber. The barrel assemblies are compatible with all Wildey [Read More…]
I am pretty sure that most of our readers know about the World Of Guns: Gun Disassembly application by Noble Empire Corporation. This app represents a database of detailed 3D firearm models which you can disassemble, learn the mechanisms of operation etc. Recently, [Read More…]
The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 To 2004 made me a thumbhole stock nut. Why? Thank California, which initially allowed thumbhole stocks as a compliant part. Now, it is just a finger shelf away from a bumpfire stock, and it can reinforce weak plastic lowers – [Read More…]
Rheinmetall have won the contract to equip the German Army’s special forces, the KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte, with a new laser light package. These will be mounted on the KSK’s new G95 (HK416) rifles, adopted in 2017. According to a contract notice posted [Read More…]
German Oberland Arms has first shown the prototypes of this suppressor at IWA 2017. One year later, at the same exhibition, they brought the final version of the OA-KDA (KDA stands for Knalldruckabweiser which means sound and blast deflector). And a couple of days ago [Read More…]
If you watch the news often, in any country, you’re probably used to seeing heads of state doing silly things on camera. Planting trees, handing off food to the children, dancing with people, flying combat jets… Rarely those publicity stunts look authentic [Read More…]
Joel tests out three of the top tripods used in long-range shooting. He shot in 4 different positions from 100 yards to 300 yards and finally, 600 yards in an effort to determine the pros and cons of each tripod system. Did one stand out above the rest? Watch Triple Tripod Test – 3 Of [Read More…]
Starting when the notorious terrorist leader found refuge in the company of Mullah Omar’s Islamic Emirate in the mid-1990s, Osama bin Laden became a vociferous proponent of constantly appearing in propaganda footage armed with a Soviet AKS74U [Read More…]
The US Border Patrol’s parent agency the US Customs and Border Protection have released a solicitation for a family of new 9x19mm striker-fired, semi-automatic pistols. On 2nd July, the Customs and Border Protection agency published a solicitation with a [Read More…]
Liberty Suppressors has introduced a new rimfire can called Vector. It is designed from the ground up to be a modular, user serviceable product that is easy to disassemble and clean even after high round count. Here is how the company describes this suppressor: Vector [Read More…]
This article is in response to two articles recently published on defining lumens and candela. Numerous erroneous statements were made due to improperly vetting sources and some misunderstanding of the information gathered. I am not an expert on light, however, the [Read More…]
Labradar produces the most prominent commercially available radar-based chronograph for firearms use. Prior to the Labradar, and the magnetospeed which is a good chronograph in its own right, the most accurate way of getting muzzle velocities was to take multiple [Read More…]
The Iraqi Al-Kadesiah rifle was named after a battle bearing the same name in 636 AD which marked a key point in the Islamic conquest of what is current-day Iraq and Iran. The naming of weapon systems whether it be small arms or missiles in Saddam’s Iraq was often based on important events [Read More…]
Welcome to Part 6 (the final installment; for now) of TFB and LYMANS series on reloading for the beginner. If you missed Parts 1 through 5, you can find them here: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/05/31/beginners-guide-to-reloading-part-1/ [Read More…]
In 2015 we reported that Defense Distributed had teamed up with the Second Amendment Foundation to sue the Department of State over the “Censorship of 3-D Printing Information”. Three years later it has emerged that Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment [Read More…]
An Italian company called Futurmec makes an adjustable stock for over & under shotguns. The stock is called FUTUR-K6AM. Generally speaking, this stock has features similar to the Ergosighn and TSK stocks that we have talked about earlier. However, it also has some [Read More…]
A little over a year ago, we wrote about the YouTube channel called Kjaskaar which host replicated the sawn-off shotgun from the “Killing Them Softly” movie. Kjaskaar calls this firearm “The Littlest Shotgun”. He has recently published a part [Read More…]
This might come as a surprise to many firearm enthusiasts, but this last June was one of the highest on record for gun sales. The 3rd highest in fact. What may not come as a surprise to many of you is that in whole firearm sales are dropping. Some important questions to [Read More…]
For those of you interested in getting your hands on the TS12 bullpup shotgun that was announced at SHOT 2018, IWI is providing us with shipping updates so you can plan your gun budget accordingly. The TS12 in black will be available sometime around November with the [Read More…]
You all know about the H&K G36. For all the good and bad out there about the gun, it is very difficult for US Citizens to have a G36. Well Tom Bostic of Tommy Built is not only making G36s for the masses, he is making pistol G36s with his own injection molded [Read More…]
It has been awhile since we have done an “Identify My Guns” segment, but we are glad to be back examining odd, reader-submitted firearms! In this article, we examine a breech-loading blackpowder rifle that was converted to shoot centerfire cartridges and [Read More…]
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