Welcome to TFB Podcast Roundup 103! TriggrCon 2023 is in the books and all of us here at TFB are hoping that you’ve been enjoying the coverage. James and I had the great pleasure of meeting a lot of you both at the show and the various meetups held in Wichita, [Read More…]
In part 1 of this article, we talked with Larry Zanoff one of the most prominent armorers in Hollywood who works for ISS, the company that provided weapons for “Extraction 2“. Сorrect props and guns are the essential part of creating realistic and memorable [Read More…]
The goal of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to give your eyes something worth watching, and your brain something to think about every day. Over the years we have shown firearms and soldiers from North to South, East to West in almost any imaginable situation and [Read More…]
About two weeks ago at IWA 2023, CZ came to the show with a brand new firearm perfect for not just the European market, but one that I think would do quite well in the American market! The new CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S1 is chambered in 22LR and will come complete with a [Read More…]
Hello and welcome to TFB podcast roundup 73! We’re back from our annual hiatus when virtually the entire TFB/TFBTV crew is at SHOT Show 2023 and we should be getting back to our regular podcast roundup schedule as well as some fresh episodes of the TFB Behind The Gun [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Let’s start with a short history lesson about photojournalism. Advances in technology over one hundred years ago made illustrating news stories with images possible. Illustrated London News was one of the first weekly publications to make use of [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day, with pictures of the CZ Bren from the sky as well as the ground. The pictures are from the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia where the Czech Republic contingent prepared for a two-day small arms shooting competition for the Battle [Read More…]
With so many new shooters joining our community over the past few years, it’s important to have options to accommodate them all. Many of the new shooters are women and young people, both of which are oftentimes smaller in stature. This was likely not something [Read More…]
The braces you’ve come to love from SB Tactical keep improving. The SBTEVO-G2, which was released late last year, was just the beginning of generational updates. New for 2022, SB Tactical is adding the BREN2 and SBT-G2 to their line of 2nd Generation SBT [Read More…]
Happy New year everyone! As we roll into 2022, I’m excited for what the gun industry has to offer as we progress through this next lap around the sun. SHOT Show 2022 is right around the corner here in just a few weeks and we at TFB and TFBTV are pumped to get back [Read More…]
If we take an honest look at firearms these days, it is easy to see that now, in 21 century, there is significantly less diversity in weapon design compared to 50s or 60s. Everything we see now are gas-operated rifles based on AR-15, AR-18 and AK. But another major [Read More…]
If you’ll recall my article The Irish Guns Of ‘The Siege Of Jadotville’ Movie , I questioned a curious Bren sniper scene in which an Irish sniper makes a decisive move from his No 4. Lee Enfield scoped sniper rifle to the Bren light machine gun in order to make a [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves – along with Ryan @gunhipster and Brendan of @tomato_tactical – tests three different .22LR silencers on the Ruger-57 pistol. Sure, .22LR cans are great for…rimfire, but how do they do with the FN’s 5.7x28mm round? Check today’s [Read More…]
Jonathan Ferguson’s new book on British bullpup rifles is one I’ve been waiting a long time for. Five years ago I wrote my Master’s thesis on the development of the early Cold War British bullpup rifle, the E.M.2, and the politics which engulfed it. It’s [Read More…]
“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” – Sally Mann In our Photo Of The Day, we revisit the past. These photos are over 75 years old. Let that sink in and think about it – has history and past events taught us [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 35th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a sweet [Read More…]
Today we have a look at the artificial Battlefield at eFP Battle Group in Latvia, where troops from the Czech Republic conduct a live fire exercise with 120 mm mortars. Somewhere further down there are going to be big holes, and/or a lot of fragments, from these massive [Read More…]
The Bren light machine gun was one of the more robust and successful light machine gun designs to see service in the Second World War among the Allied forces. During the war, it was even produced full scale not only in Britain but also in Canada and Australia where it saw extensive service with the [Read More…]
The “tragic boating accident” phrase has seen a lot of use this past year, but solid examples continue to pop up. The Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office in Washington released a warning to the public about 20mm anti-aircraft ammunition washing up on [Read More…]
AR-18 is probably one of the most underappreciated firearms designs in history. The rifle itself was not very popular, but the basic design of its bolt and bolt carrier was used by at least 9 different countries: Germany in the G36, Belgium in the SCAR, the Czech [Read More…]
no small number Looking at CZ-USA’s new product spreadsheet is eye-watering. There are roughly 75 new CZ firearms for 2019. Let’s have a look at some of the more prominent selections: Bullpup scorpion The first thing to catch my eye at CZ’s booth [Read More…]
Recently, some duck hunters made quite a discovery in the Chesapeake Bay. While retrieving their duck decoys, they found a World War II-era Bren gun had become entangled in the decoy lines. It’s quite rare to see Bren guns coming up for air, especially in American [Read More…]
Fans of classic war movies like A Bridge Too Far and the excellent series Band of Brothers will be as excited as I was to hear that a major project to create a show exploring the history of World War Two’s airborne troops has been launched. Paratrooper is [Read More…]
Since 2016, TFB has been closely following the Pakistani Army’s search for a new service rifle to replace its indigenously produced G3 rifles and the Type 56s currently in service. It has now emerged that the Pakistani military may also be interested in FB [Read More…]
Defence Services Asia is one of the top five defence shows in the world. First held in 1988 and takes place once every two years, it has since grown over the past three decades. 2018 saw its 16th edition taking place in the newly built Malaysia International Trade and [Read More…]
Creedmoor Sports, the leader in precision rifle equipment and gear, is now accepting pre-orders of the TRACE 10 GEN2 Training Analysis System at a discounted price. Order today and receive it by mid-to-late April. Don’t let the weather or range schedule determine [Read More…]
As you may know the French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) has ordered a new standard issue weapon, TFB reported about it earlier. They selected the rather unusual CZ Bren 2 in an even more unusual, for Western Special Forces at least, caliber in terms of [Read More…]
Photographs of Egyptian Security Forces armed with 7.62x39mm CZ 807s have recently surfaced, thanks to the efforts of Egypt Defense Review and Mahmoud Gamal, both in-depth analysts of Egyptian defense programs. The 7.62x39mm rifles were recently seen in what appears to [Read More…]
Cyber Monday means something a bit different to the folks at CZ USA. Quietly dropping a bomb on their Instagram page, CZ released a design mock-up of an integrally reflex suppressed Scorpion. In what they are referring to as a sneak peak at the 2018 new products [Read More…]
SB Tactical, a company well known for designing and manufacturing stabilizing braces for a number of different firearms, has introduced a side folding brace for CZ BREN 805 S1 Pistol. Just like other braces available on the market, this one also is not legally a stock [Read More…]
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