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TFB Weekly Web Deals 86: Deals for April 22nd, 2024 
TFB Armorer’s Bench: Barrel Threading Without a Lathe Both S&W and GLOCK won a contract from the BATFE to supply pistols, it appears that GLOCK has been named the “Chosen Duty Weapon” of the agency. My understanding is that agents are able to chosen between the S&W M&P and GLOCK for their personal [Read More…]
K_Var is selling Arsenal Inc’s SGL12-03 Saiga 12 Shotgun with a nifty quad rail fore-end. You can watch a video of it in action here. [ Many thanks to Robert for emailing me the link. ]
The FBI is purchasing an additional 2,963 GLOCK 23 pistols, accessories and training at a cost of just under $1 million. [ Many thanks to Mike for emailing me the info. ]
Solider System’s has the skinny. If anyone knows anything about this rifle. Please let me know.
Guernsey’s is auctioning off the first rifle used by John Wayne in his first feature film The Big Trail (1930). This is an original Model 1863 percussion rifled musket made by the U.S. federal armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, for the Union Soldiers to use [Read More…]
Blain at ARFCOM reports … I felt the stiff recoil from the explosion at the same time as hearing the blast, and feeling the hot hair blow in my face, and through my hair. I knew what had happened. Something, I had heard of happening with bad rounds (Indian, [Read More…]
C.J. Chivers has published photos on the NY Times and his personal blog of weapons captured in Afghanistan. It is a good to see that either the Taliban do not have the resources to purchase new firearms or they do not have the ability to supply new firearms to frontline [Read More…]
One of my favorite websites, Ballistics By The Inch (BBTI), has been updated with more information. Two more cartridges have been tested: the 9mm Makarov and 9mm Ultra/Police) They have also tested an additional ten .380 ACP chambered pistols with a variety of [Read More…]
Finish company Ase Utra are a well known suppressor manufacturer. They have posted a couple of interesting videos on YouTube. [ Many thanks to Tuulos for emailing me the videos. ]
Guy shows us the rifle he is taking Elk hunting next month. I look forward to reading about his experience in Shoot Illustrated.
The Remington Semi-Auto Sniper System (RSASS) is a prototype 7.62x51mm rifle. It features a full length rail, uses Magpul 7.62mm magazines and has a left-side foldable charging handle. Nice! I stole these photos from the AAC Blog … I am a little surprised to see [Read More…]
Armalite’s 10th Anniversary Limited Edition AR-50A1 features a custom black/silver speckle finish and comes bundled with a a variety of accessories including three different scope rails. Read more about it at Accurate Shooter.
Ryan Smith, of Bushmaster, hosted Drake Clark from Magpul at the Bushmaster factory. Drake was one of the co-designers of the original Magpul Masada. This video, a TFB exclusive, shows Drake putting an ACR through its paces … This video clears up the debate of [Read More…]
[ Y-Man, TFB’s resident Nigerian shotgunner, continues his series of guest articles about his quest to build the perfect shotgun. Being one of the lucky few in Africa to legally own a gun, he has to fabricate many parts and ammunition himself because supplies of [Read More…]
Last weeks NRA Curator’s Corner featured the M3 Grease Gun. NRA Blog says … With a 30 round magazine and a muzzle velocity of 920 ft/s, the M3 was manufactured from 1943 to 1945. During that time, roughly 700,000 were produced. Soon after it was created, the [Read More…]
Defense Review has been burning up ammo. Videos here 🙂
From BerettaSupport.com … Beretta U.S.A. Corp. has discovered a potential condition with Beretta .22 caliber NEOS semiautomatic pistols in which the pistol will fire even if the safety is activated and, in some cases, the pistols may fire if the safety is moved [Read More…]
This is easily one of the most incredible rifles I have ever seen. This work of art was built by the late Jack Smith of Sudbury, Mass. in his home machine shop. It is built on a custom falling-block Farquharson-style action. Mr Smith must have been a careful man because [Read More…]
Federal’s new Prairie Storm ammunition features a mixture of shot. 70% of the shot is copper-plated lead and the remaining 30% consists of “FLITESTOPPER” nickel-plated lead. Federal says that the mix produces good patterns. The FLITESTOPPER shot [Read More…]
S&W has revealed that their winning entry into the recent BATFE competition was the M&P40 pistol. Not much surprise there, but it is nice to have it confirmed. From the press release … The award marks the completion of a full and open competition among [Read More…]
The DoD’s Defense Acquisition University created this handy flowchart to clearly show how defense acquisitions work … And you wondered why the Pentagon regularly makes poor decisions regarding firearms and ammunition? The only thing I have learn’t [Read More…]
This pistol, chambered in 6.5x50mm Arisaka, was purportedly found in a South Vietnamese rice paddy. I cannot tell if the photo it is real or a fake. The front sight is far to low, unless there is a hole drilled into that metal block above the chamber. [ Many thanks to [Read More…]
Starting January 2011 Hodgdon will be selling Hornady Superformance and LEVERevolution Powders. Downrange.TV reports … Hodgdon’s new Hornady Superformance and LEVERevolution reloading powders are the same propellants used in Hornady’s innovative and award [Read More…]
This time it was a vintage .45 Colt. As usual handloads were used and the owner swears they were loaded correctly 😉 Lots more photos at AFRCOM. [ Many thanks to jdun1911 for emailing me the link. ]
Law Enforcement Organizations are now able to purchase the Bushmaster ACR with barrel lengths from 10.5″ to 18″ and in either .223 Rem. or 6.8mm SPC. The press release did not say anything about a select fire model so I am unsure if a full-auto trigger [Read More…]
Accidental double tapping of .500 S&W revolvers is apparently quite common. This video demonstrates … A few years ago S&W investigated the phenomena. They discovered, as you have probably already guessed, that the double taps were the result of what was [Read More…]
Earlier this year I blogged about a prototype pistol by the German firm Armatix which required the operator to wear a special wristwatch in order to fire it. I considered it a novel idea but ultimately useless invention that would never be adopted. Built-in gun locks [Read More…]
Tam says (referring to the RAA PDS) … Look, if you’ve just gotta have a gun with a piston in it so your friends will know you’re cool, get a gun designed from the ground up to use a piston, not some kludge affixed to a Stoner-type bolt carrier assembly [Read More…]
Bushmaster has launched a YouTube channel for the ACR. The video embedded below shows how quick it is to convert a standard ACR to an enhanced ACR, which you may recall I recently blogged about. Magpul’s original design goal of making the rifle as modular as [Read More…]
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