A long list of companies partnered with Offensive Marketing Group to try to make a new and different take on commercials. Judging by the feedback I’ve read it seems they succeeded. In the video (see the bottom of this article) you can see the latest gear in action [Read More…]
Proof Research has just announced the newest addition to their precision, long-range rifle series with the Conviction Ti, a new standard in lightweight, tactical, long-range rifles. Proof Research is one of the leaders in precision rifles and barrels and has a [Read More…]
Hey everyone and thanks for joining us for the latest installment of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast featuring our friends Jordan Wilson and Mike O’Dell from CMMG. Growing from an internet parts seller to a firearms industry powerhouse in just a few years, CMMG is [Read More…]
If you don’t know the distance to your target it will make it more difficult – if not impossible in some cases – to get your ballistics right, and hit where you want. Of course, you don’t always have to “hit” something. It can be good [Read More…]
American Holoptics, an affiliate of Koucar Management, have bought EOTech from L3Harris. The purchase price is undisclosed. At the end of 2005 L3Harris acquired EOTech, a story that now comes to an end. Koucar also owns Elite Defense, Odin Defense as well as a few [Read More…]
Franklin Armory Claims NASGW Caliber Award for Best New Shotgun Less than a week ago The National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) hosted its 2019 Caliber Awards. Founded in 1953 to bring together shooting sports buyers and sellers together, NASGW [Read More…]
Taurus USA have announced the introduction of a new full-size pistol, the latest entry into their G-series of pistols, the G3. Chambered in 9x19mm it feeds from 10, 15 or 17 round magazines, has a frame-mounted manual safety, weighs in at 25 oz. and has an MSRPs of [Read More…]
Griffin Armament has well over 10 years of rimfire suppressor development under their belt and it shows. Recently they have introduced their new Resistance® 22 Modular Rimfire Suppressor. After digging deep into customer reviews and experience, griffin developed this [Read More…]
Location: Löddeköping, South of Sweden. I guess you haven’t been there and wasn’t planning to go there either? That’s fine, to be honest, neither was I until I got an invitation for a Factory Visit to Spuhr, makers of rifle scope mounts and other [Read More…]
GLOCK has just announced that none other than Chuck Norris will be the company’s new spokesperson, filling a void left vacant by the passing of the legendary R. Lee Ermey last April. Norris says that the principles that he built his life on: “tough, real, [Read More…]
Aimpoint has announced that they have been awarded a $24 million US Army contract for supplying FCS13-RE Fire Control Systems. The Army is acquiring this aiming system to use with the recently adopted 84mm M3E1 MAAWS (SAAB Dynamics Carl Gustaf M4) recoilless rifles. [Read More…]
NATO’s “Powered Rail Team”, consisting of 11 nations working on the common goal of bringing forward a STANAG (NATO standardization document) for a Powered Accessory Rail for small firearms, is starting to pay off. Pictured below: Scientists at the Defence Science [Read More…]
L3 Technologies, parent company of EOTECH, has confirmed they have been awarded a $26.3 million contract to supplied the latest version of their EOTECH holographic weapon sight and G33 magnifier to USSOCOM. The five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity [Read More…]
AC-Unity is a firearms and accessories manufacturing company located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They have recently started exporting new quad stack 60-round 7.62x39mm AK magazines to the USA. This company and its products are mostly unknown to the American gun [Read More…]
Last Monday night, Shopify changed their policy about what items can be sold via their e-commerce platform. Shopify is banning the sale of firearms and firearm related accessories. “Restricted Items” means: Certain Firearms an automatic firearm that has not been [Read More…]
Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us back here for TFB’s Silencer Saturday. As I hinted last week, we are heading back to the land of pistol caliber carbines with an introduction to Swiss Precision – the B&T TP9-N and the TP9/MP9 submachine gun [Read More…]
Australian Outback Ammo is once again headed to the U.S. In a recovering ammunition and component market in America, the pricing differentials between imported and domestic made product is beginning to level off. Ten shipping containers full of the Aussie cartridges [Read More…]
Usually, when we discuss our friends at Ranger Point Precision the conversation is about some hot new lever gun they are working up. For example, a modified Marlin 336 rechambered in their .36 RPP wildcat cartridge. But today, Ranger Point Precision brings us some [Read More…]
Aimpoint has announced that they have won a large contract to supply sights to Berlin’s Police at the 2018 Enforce Tac coverage from the Nürnberg Messe. The Swedish company revealed that they will be supplying the Berliner Polizei with 3,800 Aimpoint CompM4 red [Read More…]
Last summer TFB reported that the Swedish Procurement Office (FMV Sweden) was looking for a new red dot for the Swedish Armed Forces. Already in 2002 Aimpoint signed a contract with FMV and has since then supplied red dots for the Ak4, Ak5 and other service firearms. [Read More…]
Good morning fellow silencer lovers. Thanks for coming back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday. If this is your first time joining us for this weekly digest, our goal is to bring you the latest news, events and products coming out of the suppressor industry. Think of this [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV’s coverage of SHOT Show 2018, James meets with 5.11 to talk about their new gear, and more importantly, their new GEO-7 proprietary camouflage pattern. From 5.11’s press release: 5.11 Tactical, the global innovator of tactical apparel and gear, will showcase its [Read More…]
At first glance, Mossberg’s new 590M magazine-fed shotgun is a progression of their popular and reliable scatterguns. Look a little closer, however, and you will see some potentially industry-changing technology: the new magazines come in double-stack form. In [Read More…]
SB Tactical just dropped a new addition to their line of Pistol Stabilizing Braces. The SBA3 appears to be an evolutionary progression in SB Tactical’s AR braces, including a carbine length buffer tube, QD sling attachment and low profile design. Of note is that SB [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…]
Let me start off by saying that this subjective list of TFB’s ‘Top 5’ best guns from 2017 is not rooted in scientific study nor is it the result of massive data crunching of user polls. The below guns were picked by general popularity, page views, innovative [Read More…]
High-Speed Gear Incorporated, commonly known as HSGI, has been a constant innovator in tactical nylon. Their TACO series of pouches is one of the most popular used by both military and civilian shooters due to its inherent versatility. As a proud owner of one of their [Read More…]
Spuhr and Forge Tactical are starting a co-operation. The outline can be found in the quoted Press Release below, but TFB also reached out and spoke directly to both Håkan Spuhr and John Chapman of Forge Tactical to get some more details. In Europe Spuhr has a very [Read More…]
Thanks to Brian M. for sharing this with us. For those who shoot competitive matches, you are sure to recognize the famous C-More sight. Here is an interview with the inventor of the C-More on the Practical Shooting YouTube page. Ira Kay was a dentist back in the [Read More…]
That’s why. After the passage of a set of draconian gun laws, manufacturing of semiautomatic handguns by individuals was banned outright. Meaning, if you want to build a pistol from an 80% kit, you are out of luck. That’s when Nate B., owner of Inlander [Read More…]
