As we are now merely days away from SHOT Show 2018, Taurus has begun to slowly leak more and more of their new firearms. We previously covered their announcement of a 1911 Commander model with a 4.2″ barrel. Now Taurus has announced a 1911 Officer model that has a [Read More…]
The Turkish Government has awarded the Turkish companies Sarsılmaz and Canik two contracts resulting from the “Original Indigenous Gun Project” trials. Sarsılmaz received a 110,000 handgun order of the company’s 9x19mm SAR-9, while Canik received a [Read More…]
ITW Nexus brought the companies latest version of their FastMag at Pre-Range Day, in addition to a pack strap quick release. Both products are distributed by Hudson 4 Supplies. ITW Nexus products are used in numerous tactical and even non-tactical products such as [Read More…]
AT the Shot Show Range Day, FN American was showing of some of their latest guns. They have the FN two tone FDE/Black series FN15 out on the range. The newest gun is their FN15 Pistol. It has a 10″ barrel and an SB Tactical brace. The brace looks to be the same [Read More…]
At the Shot Show Range Day, Franklin Armory had their latest toys out to play. Yes the new Reformation was there but that information will be coming soon in a different article. Let’s focus on the other products they brought out. Franklin Armory has been [Read More…]
Kicking off my SHOT Show 2018 coverage is, of course, some suppressed fun from the team at Desert Design and Development – D3LLC. Their mainstay line is a set of GLOCK mag fed integrally suppressed ARs that feature silencers that are true to the MP5SD platform. So [Read More…]
Back in December 2017, we reported that Berlin Police selected the Heckler & Koch SFP9 TR as their new service pistol. The new pistol will replace the ageing SIG Sauer P6 (P225) that was adopted back in the 1970s. The contract for the Landespolizei Berlin’s [Read More…]
The 2018 Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoors Show is upon us! Over the next week, the TFB Team consisting of over 16 writers, and 4 videographers will be working our hardest (and fastest) to try and bring to you, our readership, some of the broadest coverage of SHOT Show [Read More…]
Welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday. In the third installment of everything that is quiet, we will focus on a SHOT Show Sneak Peek since TFB is currently headed to Las Vegas for the biggest industry show of the year. We have a few hints of new releases, but for [Read More…]
Next week, I’ll be attending SHOT Show in Las Vegas for the first time. I’ve read about it, my husband has been several times, but this will be my first experience…and I get to do it as MEDIA! Honestly, I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl! Sure, several of my articles [Read More…]
I think I have found my next mini red dot sight – Shield Sights has just announced the RMSc MRDS, a slimmer version of their RMS for larger pistols. The smaller footprint allows for zero overhang on popular pocket pistols like the Glock 43 and the S&W Shield [Read More…]
Almost a year to the day that the Army MHS contract was awarded to the P320, the Sig Sauer 2018 Catalog is highlighting the consumer availability of the M17 pistol. This years lineup also includes numerous new pistol, rifle, optics and accessory models, some of which [Read More…]
Taurus has had radio silence in regards to announcing new products leading up to SHOT Show 2018 thus far. It’s almost industry protocol nowadays to leak, if not publicly announce, your new wares before letting the media and public fondle them at SHOT. In a very [Read More…]
An Israeli company by the name of ZØRE is releasing their innovative quick locking system that they originally started through a crowdfunding campaign in 2016, which we covered in April of that same year. Today the company is going public in the United States offering [Read More…]
Before I start in on the announcement of FULL CONCEAL’s Folding Glock 43, let’s rewind a whole year where I met the FC team at SHOT 2017. I still didn’t “get” the folding pistol idea, but I could appreciate the passion they had for their designs. And now, [Read More…]
Ed Brown Products has teamed up with trigger specialists ZEV Technologies to launch a new 9x19mm 1911. Building on their FX1 the new pistol has an edgier, more aggressive aesthetic. The long-established Missouri-based custom 1911 builders have collaborated with ZEV to [Read More…]
Browsing through the CIP cartridge standards while doing a research, I noticed several cartridges named PICRA. The name was unknown to me and apparently, it is unknown to many others too. So I thought why don’t I do a little research to find out who has designed [Read More…]
Seekins Precision just dropped the NXR – a short-barreled AR patterned pistol with an SB Tactical stabilizing brace. The NXR is chambered in 300BLK and comes complete from the factory with an adjustable gas system. As featured, this Seekins AR pistol seems ready [Read More…]
Since mid-2017, news has circulated in the local Brazilian media concerning the proposed acquisition of 5,000 .40 S&W pistols by PMESP – Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Military Police) as an initial step to start replacing the [Read More…]
In this article we’ll take a look at three unusual and less-known firearms design by Pyotr Serdyukov, the designer of the SR-1 “Gyurza” pistol, VSS “Vintorez” and AS VAL suppressed rifles. Just like the more famous ones created by [Read More…]
South Carolina based firearm manufacturer PTR just revamped their logo and website ahead of a SHOT Show new product announcement. And before we go any further, yes I have asked and no I don’t know what it is yet. However, PTR has graciously offered TFB some hands-on [Read More…]
Earlier this month, Adam S. reviewed the new Glock 19X. Well, there is some Glock 19 goodness headed up to our neighbors in Canada. For those not familiar with Canadian gun laws, there are three classifications for firearms. Unrestricted, Restricted and Prohibited. [Read More…]
In the Soviet Union, arms designing was almost exclusively done in government armories and design bureaus. And only on very rare occasions, individuals could be licensed to design firearms. This article tells about one of such independent designers – a gentleman [Read More…]
GlockStore has announced the launch of a new 80% Glock 43 frame. The new frame is called SS80. It comes with the fixture and tools to complete it. The SS80 frame will be exclusively distributed by GlockStore.com. As you have noticed, this frame has a has different [Read More…]
Cabot, most famous for crafting a matching pair of 1911s from a meteorite has released a press release detailing the company’s acquisition and future production of Alchemy Custom Weaponry, a small but specialized handcrafted 1911 manufacturer. Alchemy Custom [Read More…]
At a small and lightly covered ceremony at Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Massachusets location, the U.S. Army officially turned over control of the Colonel Benton Small Arms collection to the National Park Service of the United States. Previously the U.S. [Read More…]
Samson Manufacturing has introduced two new products for the Smith & Wesson M&P9 Shield and M&P9 Shield M2.0 pistols. The new accessories are an enlarged and extended magazine well and a +1 magazine extension.You can see both products together in the top [Read More…]
Tomorrow night on the FOX Business Network, the second episode of the new season of Strange Inheritance features a massive collection of military weapons passed down to two Oregon brothers. Primitive firearm collectors and history buffs can check out the ‘Cannon [Read More…]
In one of the Russian social media pages dedicated to firearms, I found a picture of two pistols being in development in Russia. These handguns are designed by an unknown arms designer whose nickname is “Kochevnik”. Both pistols are chambered in 9x19mm. The [Read More…]
That looks like a serious headache. I found this photo on Facebook it was reported that Rodrigo Moreira was a victim of a motorcycle robbery and the robbers shot the him in the head after taking his motorcyle at gun point. There is little information as to the [Read More…]
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