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[SHOT 2023] 5.11 Boots, Gear Is The TFB/TFBTV SHOT Uniform 
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Florian @ sig556reviews.com has posted an extensive review of the TangoDown Model ACB-4 Advanced Combat Bipod. I finally got my TangoDown Combat Bipod in on Friday after an almost 4 week wait. I put it on my Sig 556 SWAT the same day and took it out on Saturday. I have [Read More…]
Pretty quickly it turns out. James Yeager TASERed three of his students to find out. They had to complete a simple course of fire as fast as possible after being zapped. The first two guys did very well. The last guy was definitely a little shaken. Video here.
These photos are of a prototype rail system for the Daewoo K2, which is the assault rifle used by the Korean army. Click to expand. Photo â“’ Chen “SMGLee” Lee. Used with permission. Click to expand. Photo â“’ Chen “SMGLee” Lee. Used with [Read More…]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have published Annual Firearms Manufacturers And Export Report 2007 (warning: PDF Link). It gives some interesting insight into firearms sales: Pistols Manufactured in 2007 Revolvers Manufactured in 2007 Rifles, [Read More…]
This is a pretty amazing video. Four men, one armed with an AR-15, attempt a daylight robbery in Tucson. In no time they are quickly running for their lives as the homeowner defends his home with a gun firing two or three shots into the drivers side of the getaway [Read More…]
Later this year TROY will be selling a Modular Chassis Systems for the Mini 14. The orginal TROY Modular Chassis Systems is an excellent, albeit expensive, stock for the M14 / M1A. It makes perfect sense to scale it down for the Mini 14 which was a very similar external [Read More…]
In 2007 Sig Sauer came out with a Blackwater branded Sig P226. This year they have partnered with Blackwater to produce a 1911. It features picatinny rail, custom wood grips with blackwater logo, Nitron coated stainless steel slide and SIGLITE night sights. Specs: [Read More…]
Don’t know what happened. Anyway its back online.
Mossberg have announced a new rifle for 2009 called the 100ATR Night Train II. Oddly enough Mossberg did not include this rifle in their 2009 catalog. The rifle is a significant upgrade over the original Night Train. It features everything you can see in the above [Read More…]
I absolutely loved the scenes in the Matrix where Neo dodges bullets. Last week IBM was issued a patent that in theory would give us mortals that ability. The patent proposes a system where an external device monitors the area for incoming projectiles. If it detects a [Read More…]
An 80 year old Finnish man invented this .22 LR belt fed machine gun. It could be fake but looks legit and is plausible. Jani confirms it is real in the comments below. Click to expand. The approximate translation of the caption: 80-year-old hameenlinnalaisininoori [Read More…]
Last month I received an email from Nigeria. I know what you are thinking … not one of those emails 😉 Emmanuel was having some problems with his new shotgun and asked if I could help. I don’t know much about shotguns in general so I was not able to give [Read More…]
Last week Engadget reported that a man was killed by an exploding cell phone battery. Turns out he was carrying a homemade pistol, which fell on the ground, discharged and he was hit by the bullet. Engadget reports: According to some roughly translated reports from [Read More…]
Always wear safety glasses! A few videos from YouTube illustrate why. [ Definition: Firing out of battery: when a round is fired before it is fully chambered. Instead of the expanding gas being forced out the barrel it wrecks havoc inside the gun) ] AR-15 blows up, not [Read More…]
Billll @ Billlls Idle Mind took some photos of a friends’ 2-bore rifle. More photos and load info here. Later in the week I will be posting a heap of 2 Bore photos I have gotten from a gun maker who specializes in big bore rifles.
Last month Sven Ortmann wrote an article on The Firearm Blog about small arms cartridges. His European perspective generated some controversy on the blog but it generated a great discussion. He has written a follow-on article on his blog. He told me that this article is [Read More…]
Mike has started up a new forum focusing on sub-compact / micro / mouse guns. If you are into these guns check out Microguns.net
FAB Defense, an Israeli company, makes a picatinny rail mounted glass breaker for the Glock. A pretty interesting device. It appears to need to be cocked first and then triggered when it hits the glass, unlike emergency window breakers which come cocked from the factory [Read More…]
As the author of two books on iPhone software development published by the prestigious IT published O’Reilly you would expect any iPhone / iPod Touch application by Jonathan Zdziarski would be of high quality. He does not disappoint with his ballistics calculator [Read More…]
I saw this at Occupied Nashville: The device is called a “Univeral Tactical Attachment For Glock 19” and is manufactured by Israeli company FAB Defense. It mounts a Glock 17 or 19 onto a standard standard picatinny rail and includes a side charging handle [Read More…]
American Tactical Imports will be selling the GSG-5 rifle in an SD configuration. The SD is patterned after the MP5-SD, a suppressed variant of the MP5. The main difference between the SD and the standard GSG-5 lies in the bigger stouter fore grip which is patterned [Read More…]
Ruger finally went tactical for the first time in decades with the launch of the Mini-14 Tactical. So why did the 10/22, probably their biggest selling firearm and quite possibly the worlds biggest selling rimfire rifle, not get the tactical treatment? It makes no [Read More…]
KNOXX (Owned by Blackhawk) have introduced a tactical style stock for the Ruger 10/22 rifle called the Axiom R/F. My guess is that the R/F stands for RimFire. As you can see in the photo, the stock features a 6-position M4 style adjustable stock, pistol grip and free [Read More…]
UPDATE: Drake from Magpul emailed me to say this was an issue with just one batch and it has been resolved. This was a very small batch of PMAG’s that had this issue. We addressed the issues internally and solved the problem. We also followed up with all of our [Read More…]
The Ukrainian ship captured last year that was carrying tanks, RPGs and other small arms has been abandoned by the pirates after they received a $3.2 million ransom. Kenya Broadcasting Corporation reports: Pirates had initially demanded a ransom of $20m, but reports [Read More…]
Gun smugglers in India have been stealing arms and ammunition under the nose of the the Ministry of Defense. With insider help they have been stole weapons and ammunition from the state arms factory Indian Ordnance Factories (IOF). Times of India reports (emphasis [Read More…]
Olav @ Firearms and Training has taken photos of the internals of his Z-M Weapons LR300 (now manufactured by Para Ordnance as the Tactical Target Rifle) and explained how it works. Bolt Carrier Group This shows a close up of the bolt carrier group. The gas key is [Read More…]
Ryo decided his Remington 700 did not cut it, so he built a bolt action AR-15. Basically it is a AR-15 with a side charging handle and a blocked gas port. Instead, I bought a 26″ Krieger AR-15 Varmatch barrel, with a 1:7.75 twist. They had these in stock, so it showed [Read More…]
The Mossy Oak Obsession camouflage design that is often used on rifles and shotguns has been licensed to Style Crest for use on exterior cladding. Your house can now match your rifle 🙂 Stabley Outdoors has more info. In other news, Behr are offering an evil back [Read More…]
Revision Eyewear have developed an impressive protective eyewear lens designed for combat. This video shows the Sawfly being shot by a 12 gauge Remington 1187 shotgun firing #6 lead shot from 16 feet: It is hit 37 times (what they say, I did not count) by the 0.11 [Read More…]