The Estonian Defence Ministry and LMT Defense have signed the contract to provide Estonia’s Defence Forces with an initial procurement of 16,000 rifles. We’ve reported on LMT’s success in the Estonian rifle trials previously, reporting their selection [Read More…]
Ruger has just announced special limited availability 10/22 rifles. The 10/22 rifle is well recognized, respected and quite common in the realm of .22 rifles. This particular offering has a few upgrades that come as standard, such as a scope base and an extended [Read More…]
Portugal is to replace its ageing Heckler & Koch G3 infantry rifles with FN SCAR-L, and training with the new weapons has begun according to a post on the Portuguese Army’s website last week. The short post described the first light weapons training course [Read More…]
This week Springfield Armory has released their all-new retro M1A Tanker Rifle. The Tanker features a 16.25″ Carbon Steel barrel and walnut stock giving it a classic look. With an overall length of just 37.25″, it comes in at about 7 inches shorter than its [Read More…]
While at the Cody Firearms Museum symposium Arsenals of History, an interesting thought experiment was brought up after a presentation by Scott Gausen, of the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, on 3D printing and scanning in museums. While discussing this, [Read More…]
The 82nd Airborne has been conducting jump testing of the Army’s new Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper (CSASS) rifle. In June, the 82nd’s snipers were issued the new sniper rifle and conducted operational testing during training exercises. The aim of the testing [Read More…]
Arsenal Inc., the importer of Bulgarian AKs, has announced the availability of a new iteration of their milled receiver SAM7 rifles. This new version of the rifle is called SAM7R-68. The difference from the base rifle is the new handguard. The SAM7R-68 comes with a [Read More…]
Check out the CZ 527 American 300 Blackout Review from Joel of the Precision Rifle Network. He gives you the technical specifications and then shoots groups at fifty yards with subsonic ammunition. He also shoots groups at one hundred yards with supersonic ammunition and has interesting results. [Read More…]
Today’s Photos take us to the European Best Sniper Team Competition that takes place in Grafenwöhr, Bavaria, Germany. With 17 participating nations, such as Spain, Canada, Turkey, Sweden (note the M90 camouflage on the man standing) and Poland, it is one of the [Read More…]
Growing up, I often sat in an old dining room chair listening to my grandfather tell me stories about the war and his life experiences. As the years progressed, I started to hear the true versions of his stories that were unfiltered and raw. My grandfather had a busy [Read More…]
In an unprecedented effort to destroy everything that is sacred within the firearms community, reader Stubbs (now going by the name “Violator of Mosins”) has done it yet again. Our very own amateur gunsmith, Stubbs has managed to wrangle a Mosin Nagant [Read More…]
Above you can see a rather unusual Beretta, used by an Italian sniper as he engages targets during the stress shoot event of the European Best Sniper Team Competition at Grafenwoehr, Germany in July 2019. The European Best Sniper Team Competition is a U.S. Army [Read More…]
For the month of July, we challenged our readers with the category of the “BEST PCC (Pistol Caliber Carbine)” for the Reader’s Choice. The PCC market continues to grow exponentially and if you saw our recent coverage of TriggrCon 2019 that was more apparent than [Read More…]
Some cool photos of ARAS, Lithuania’s Police Anti-terrorist Operations Unit, armed with SIG Sauer MCX carbine were shared on twitter earlier this week. The photos show the ARAS MCX’s configured with a folding visor stock. SIG produce a folding visor stock [Read More…]
Serbia’s Zastava Arms, best known for their AK-pattern M70, have been developing a new rifle for the past couple of years. Back in 2017, TFB reported that they were working on a new rifle chambered in a 6.5mm cartridge. The Zastava M17 is designed to be a more [Read More…]
The Cove is an Australian Army blog that covers everything related to soldiering. In a recent series of posts, author Solomon Birch took an in-depth look into the previously issued EF88 bullpup rifle. Mr. Birch used the M4 rifle as a comparative baseline. The EF88 [Read More…]
Daniel Defense announced the next three new additions to their existing DD5 line today. Each model accepts standard Magpul SR25/M110 pattern magazines, and some are available in multiple chamberings. These include 308 Winchester, 260 Remington, and 6.5 Creedmoor. [Read More…]
In all honesty, I never planned on buying a PTR 32 KF and it stemmed from a rather simple mistake that turned into a new gun purchase. I was online and instead of ordering 100 rounds of 5.56 ammo, I ordered a 1,000 round case of 7.62×39. I still to this day [Read More…]
We haven’t heard much about the HK433, Heckler & Koch’s latest infantry rifle, for a while. But HK USA’s twitter recently shared a product photo from CON-CAMO featuring soldiers with the rifle. Fields of green and the HK433 Machinepc: CON-CAMO [Read More…]
DNO Firearms has published a video where they test a DX-7 rifle with 3D printed polymer receivers. The DX-7 rifle is basically an improved AK that utilizes upper and lower receiver layout still using many standard AK parts with no or minor changes. The original DX-7 [Read More…]
Those of you who are into extreme long-range shooting have probably heard about the tacomHQ Structured Barrels because apparently, these barrels have been around for at least a couple of years. But for the majority of us, mere mortals, learning about the structured [Read More…]
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has announced that the first batch of 8,000 AK-12 rifles were issued to the units of the Central Military District of Russian Armed Forces. The personnel will get familiar with the new rifles in the proving grounds located [Read More…]
A couple months ago I received the SAINT VICTOR from Springfield Armory for review. I am a fan of the AR10 platform, own a couple so, I was ready to put it through the “TFB wringer”. As all in the Saint line do, the Victor arrived in a case with two [Read More…]
The second day of the Arsenals of History Symposium held at the Cody Firearms Museum brought about new discussions that ranged from developing a common lexicon to categorize small arms terms to how do museums work with guns in video games and drawing visitors in through [Read More…]
We announced the unveiling of the Doublestar Corp STAR10-P 308 Win AR Pistol a few weeks ago, but now we had the opportunity to handle one in person at TriggrCon 2019! This AR-10 pistol is a bit on the heavy side with it being over 8 lbs, but it balances really well. [Read More…]
Quarter Circle 10 was holding out on us all along! We met with them at TriggrCon Range Day 2019 (Wednesday) and learned of their NEW Ambidextrous PCC dubbed “The Mick.” Then, the 1st Day of the Convention Center (Friday) they debuted their P320 PCC that will [Read More…]
It is not often that we get Special Forces captured on images, and catching the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces with Malyuk rifles is very rare, to say the least. The Malyuk or Vulcan is designed and manufactured in Ukraine, by IPI. It looks like they are using [Read More…]
While out at TriggrCon 2019 we came across Stern Defense and got to see their recently debuted H2S (Hybrid 2 Stage) Drop-In AR-15 Trigger in person! This is a replacement trigger for AR-15 and AR-10 firearms that our very own Hrachya announced on TFB 3 weeks ago when it [Read More…]
We caught up with Head Down Arms (HD) at TriggrCon 2019 to see what was new with them from the last time that we spoke this winter while attending SHOT Show 2019. Their newest product to the market that is not yet on their website is an AR-15 pistol purposefully [Read More…]
This year the Cody Firearms Museum hosted the third annual Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History Symposium in Cody, Wyoming. We saw the gathering of many historians, researchers, and representatives from a wide range of museums throughout the world. All congregating [Read More…]