Our Photo Of The Day brings memories to how stagecoaches were protected once upon a time in The Wild West. I am not so sure the “Wild West” is so much calmer these days, so a side-by-side like this is probably not too bad to have at home by the bed (where [Read More…]
Today’s Photo is a Canik TP9 Elite Combat in 9×19 mm. The picture used with permission thanks to Schrombo – check his Instagram out in the link provided. I ordered this Canik TP9 Elite Combat at this years (read 2018) IWA in Nürnberg – and today it [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is taken from above in the port of Gothenburg, Sweden. You see a sniper armed with a PSG-90 (Accuracy International Arctic Warfare in .308 Win), as used by the Swedish Armed Forces. The optics is most likely a Schmidt & Bender 3-12 [Read More…]
Today’s Picture Of The Day is the British “EM-2“, in the rain. It is also known under the names as the “Janson rifle (EM2)” or the “Rifle No.9 Mk1”, and almost looks like it has a pump action. The EM-2 was an experimental rifle, [Read More…]
Camp Hansen is a United States Marine Corps base located in Okinawa, Japan. The camp got its name after Dale M. Hansen who earned a Medal of Honor, unfortunately posthumously as he was killed by an enemy sniper in 1945. In Today’s Photo Of The Day you can see US [Read More…]
The topic of today’s Photo Of The Day is easy. We’ve spotted a Ruger Precision Rifle at the International Sniper Competition 2019, held in March 2019 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The cap on the rifle scope says “Nightforce Mil-Spec”. The mount [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is an R2D2 look-alike that goes “Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrttt“, as enemy objects close-in. The purpose is to detect and destroy alien objects before they can hit and damage the ship, and it most likely the last line of defense. The [Read More…]
Posing for the camera for Today’s Photo Of The Day here at TFB, is the U.S. Marine Corps’ scout sniper platoon commander and the chief scout sniper with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary [Read More…]
Did you ever try target shooting with tracers? It was fun, wasn’t it? Add tracers to a fully automatic weapon system – and darkness – and you have the potential for some real fun. (By the looks of it someone else paid too.) That is the subject for [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows two Paratroopers, from France and Britain, during Exercise Falcon Amarante. You can see a Colt C8 Carbine in the picture, with Trijicon ACOG and a red dot on top, Magpul magazines. I am not sure about the black rifle, turned away, [Read More…]
Morale Patches, some love them some hate them. Today’s Picture Of The Day is a vintage Aimpoint patch. The current Aimpoint patch has “Open Your Eyes” written instead, which is more politically correct than the pictured version. Below is also a vintage [Read More…]
Many states across the United States are not only banning bumpstocks, but they are calling for the destruction and forfeiture of the products. This flatly sucks for law-abiding gun owners, but the amusing part is many states who have called for bumpstocks to be [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows the Electronically Remote-Controlled Weapon System of the Pandur 6×6 APC, used by the Bundesheer in Austria. The Pandur is a 6×6 APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier) produced by the Austrian company Steyr-Daimler-Puch [Read More…]
Depicted in today’s POTD is the prototype of a Trijicon RMR red dot sight guard that is being developed by Weapons Armament Research. This little device basically combines an RMR mounting plate and a front frame designed to protect the lens from damage. The [Read More…]
The recent arrest of Brazil’s former President Michel Temer on corruption charges – for the record, he was released some days later- by DPF – Departamento de Polícia Federal (Federal Police Department), while being driven from his home in São Paulo, was a [Read More…]
Barrel Test Gun (BTG) is what Mark Serbu calls his new project gun which unfinished version is today’s POTD. Overall, this gun is somewhat similar to the Serbu Q22 pistol except it is made to test barrels of many different calibers, particularly, the DIY rifled [Read More…]
Today’s photo of the day is a Heckler & Koch HK33 field stripped. Introduced in the late 1960s, the HK33 was Heckler & Koch’s response to the emergence of the new 5.56x45mm round and FN’s introduction of the FN CAL. The HK33 was essentially a [Read More…]
I learned about this custom Trailblazer Firearms LifeCard pistol from the company’s latest newsletter. This little firearm that has the length and width of a credit card and a thickness of little over a dozen of cards, has been painted to resemble an Amex Black [Read More…]
Tromix Lead Delivery Systems has published this photo on their Facebook page. The image was accompanied by the following caption: “Production parts for the new Tromix 458 SOCOM AK are coming along“. In the photo, you can see an adjustable gas block which [Read More…]
Molot Arms, best known as the manufacturer of VEPR shotguns recently shared a photo of a new belt-fed machine gun on their social media. According to Molot’s Facebook post, the weapon can feed from belts and magazines and is chambered in 7.62x39mm. Reportedly [Read More…]
Following the recent terrorist incident in Utrecht, Netherlands, Dutch special forces have been deployed. We’ve gotten some good photos of members of the Dutch Korps Mariniers armed with the SIG Sauer Suppressed Upper Receiver (SUR) in .300 Blackout built on an [Read More…]
In the late 1970s, while designing the GAU-8 Avenger for the A-10 Warthog, General Dynamics developed a smaller NATO friendly counterpart. The GAU-12 Equalizer would incorporate similar design features while using the slightly smaller 25mm ammunition. A small but [Read More…]
Today’s Picture is a rather odd firearm. It has one of the largest charging handles I’ve ever seen, but there’s a good reason for that as you have to push the shotgun cartridge forward to chamber it. The M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS) is [Read More…]
Every once in a while when you are mindlessly thumbing through your newsfeed on Facebook you come across something extraordinary! For me recently, that extraordinary thing came in the form of Malt Liquor on the side of a Hi-Point. A small custom shop named Autonomous [Read More…]
This photo taken on March 14, at the opening ceremony of exercise Obangame Express 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria shows a Nigerian Navy honour guard rendering honours to distinguished visitors including Rear Adm. Heidi Berg, director of intelligence, U.S. Africa Command. Most [Read More…]
Today’s Photo is a bit odd, I admit it, but we all need to relax with a beer every now and then. What could be better than to drink that beer in a very limited edition of a HK Stein? At least 100 people had the same thought, they were gone in minutes of being [Read More…]
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary at one of the UK’s nuclear powerplants in Sellafield, Cumbria recently shared a cool ‘then and now’ photo on Twitter. The CNC are a special police force responsible for protecting Britain’s civil nuclear power [Read More…]
Customer Relationships. That is the topic for Today’s Photo here at TFB. Armageddon Gear, Buena Vista, GA., makes and markets shooting bags, rifle slings, suppressor covers and such. Here you can see their Product Warranty: All products manufactured by Armageddon [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Let there be Light! There are so many nice things attached to this rifle, like a Schmidt & Bender Ultra Short Dot with MSR reticle and an Aimpoint T-2 on top for a fast aim. The AR15 is suppressed too, by an ASE Utra. I think I see a Magpul [Read More…]
Today’s Picture of the Day shows a British soldier with his L115A3 Long Range Sniper Rifle, taking part in the annual International Sniper Competition. The location is the Salisbury Plains training area. The British Armed Forces adopted the Accuracy International [Read More…]
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