The armed wing of London’s Metropolitan Police have submitted plans for a new £50 million base in Limehouse in the east of the capital. The Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19) already has a training establishment at Hendon in the north of London but deputy [Read More…]
During a routine traffic stop, a man from Tennessee was caught transporting two illegal homemade fully automatic assault rifles. While that sounds like the leader for a poorly written article about perfectly boring semiautomatic assault rifles, in this case it is [Read More…]
It has emerged that the UK’s Ministry of Defence Police have failed to meet firearms training standards. The specialist non-military police force is tasked with protecting sites of national importance such as the Royal Navy’s base at Faslane, Scotland [Read More…]
Following two earlier exploratory attempts to create a .40 S&W submachine gun (https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/07/12/early-40-sw-subgun-prototype-brazil/ and https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/20/another-early-40-sw-subgun-prototype-imbel/ ) the [Read More…]
An online Italian firearms news website Gunsweek.com has published an article on a digital design concept put out by Italian firm Tecnostudio Engineering that consists of an interesting “Bullpup” submachine gun/PDW. The design incorporates a 15 (appears to [Read More…]
American Tactical recenty introduced a new side by side shotgun called the Road Agent. Part of the company’s Cavalry line of scatterguns, this shotgun is a coach style firearm with external hammers. The shotgun is designed to cock both of the external hammers when [Read More…]
The non-stop drug war taking place in Brazil’s most famous city during the last years has usually brought firearms to the attention of the general public and, much more so, to that of the TFB-type readership. As it happens when the going gets tougher than it usually [Read More…]
Representatives from the Columbian state arsenal Indumil recently talked to Jane’s Defense about the companies direction in trying to market their 9x19mm NATO Cordova handguns for civilian sale in the United States. Indumil is reaching out to various dealers [Read More…]
Welcome back to this week’s edition of ‘B&T Spotlight’. My name is Pete and I will be your host for the next three to four minutes. Seriously though, if it seems like we spend an uneven amount of time talking about this Swiss firearms manufacture here at TFB, [Read More…]
Budget firearms manufacturer Hi-Point is one of the biggest punching bags in the industry. Drive-by shooting? Must have been a Hi-Point. Pistol left behind at the scene of a crime? Must have been a Hi-Point. However, time and time again they have demonstrated that [Read More…]
In the article about the KGB Operational Briefcase I promised to dig deeper with regards to the solution from B&T. I saw this at the B&T Police Days in Thun, Switzerland, in 2015 and took some pictures that I managed to dig out from my computer. Thinking about [Read More…]
Some firearms, while very fun to shoot, do not command a lot of interest or attention at the range. The new Henry lever action shotguns in .410, however, not only are a blast to bust clays with, but I had more people coming up and asking questions than with any other [Read More…]
The following is an article that was originally written in Russian by TFB contributor Maxim Popenker, and Andrey Ulanov, and translated to English by Peter Samsonov. With their permission, I have replicated the text here, and edited it, for the enrichment of you, our [Read More…]
With the termination of the Interim Combat Service Rifle, the CSASS program on hold, and the XM25 CDTE dead and buried, many are wondering: When will the Army get its act together on small arms? Given the long history of Army program failures, though, maybe a better [Read More…]
We have featured the B&T TP9 as TFB’s ‘Photo Of The Day’ in the past, but not in the form of near complete signature reduction and light and laser glory. This TP9 is in full stealth mode. One issue with attaching a weaponlight to a gun with a [Read More…]
Victor Aster is a Belarusian firearms concept designer. He shared with TFB one of his CAD designs of a personal defense weapon (PDW) called Humble-Bee. The idea is to have a compact firearm for law enforcement and military needs which would be very simple, lightweight [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day comes from Czechoslovakia (indirectly via Mac Tactical) in the form of a VZ 61 Skorpion machine pistol. This particular Skorpion is chambered in .32ACP and is outfitted with a Schreyer Weapons Systems Aculeus silencer which uses the [Read More…]
Argentina has had a long history as a manufacturer of submachine guns of indigenous design, both by State-owned concerns (https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/07/12/argentinas-9x19mm-fmk-3-submachine-gun/) and by a number of private companies. Among the latter is [Read More…]
The title of this review should actually read: The PTR Industries K3P R PDW – How The U.S. Government Forced Me To Buy A Battle Rifle. Ok, forced is a probably too strong of a word. But you see, I’ve been waiting for a transfer approval from the ATF National [Read More…]
If you’re a gun guy, odds are pretty good that non-gun people often ask your opinion on things. At least, People often make the mistake of asking my opinion, anyway. I guess they figure that just because I write about and make videos about guns, that my opinion is [Read More…]
Solving the failed extraction detraction: Recently, Houston, TX’s Ranger Point Precision reached out to me about a product they had been diligently developing for some time: an upgraded extractor claw for the Marlin 1894. The original Marlin 1894 [Read More…]
In the world of modern cartridges, the 6.5 Creedmoor seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. However, CMMG is showing a little love for the “other” .264-caliber cartridge: the 6.5 Grendel. The company announced that it was expanding its MkW ANVIL line to [Read More…]
It looks like Smith & Wesson is planning to throw down with the Glock 19 in some good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs. The brand new M2.0 Compact seems to check just about every box that the Glock 19 does, AND it has more features than the Austrian wonder pistol. [Read More…]
Back in July, UK armed police launched a dawn raid on a home in Kirby, near Liverpool. On searching the house they discovered a hidden pistol, a Beretta 9000S. A suspect, 24-year old, Adam Bigley, was arrested and has this week been sentenced to seven years in prison [Read More…]
The decision to purchase a B&T APC9 was not taken lightly. It is priced at nearly triple the cost of the CZ Scorpion and equal to that of some of the more popular MP5 builds offered to the U.S. market. And yet, for some magical reason I was drawn to the Swiss [Read More…]
Not tired of California compliant product post yet? I hope not because here’s another product for those stuck behind enemy lines in the Golden State, this time it’s from B&E3D LLC and it’s called the LedgeGrip. Starting in 2018 Californians have to [Read More…]
For those who interested in the art of self-defense, you should be checking out Active Self Protection, who goes by ASP. Their daily videos go through various real-life scenarios often from captured surveillance video. The crew over there go through the details on how [Read More…]
Just when you think it can’t get any easier to load a magazine, ETS comes along and forges a new loader that purports to work across almost all double-stack semi-auto platforms. Its so good, I am convinced that Jim Hanson (owner of ETS) is perhaps the modern [Read More…]
In this fourteenth installment of Personal Defense Weapon Calibers, we’ll be looking at a highly minimalist incarnation of the PDW/SMG round: The 7.65x20mm French Longue. The story of the French Longue begins with the US entry to World War I and the brilliant [Read More…]
Army Inside have released an interesting video with the APS pistol and the PP90 and PP91 sub-machine guns. The video is well made and includes subtitles The Stechkin pistol APS is a 9×18 mm Makarov pistol adopted in 1951, at the same time as the Makarov PM pistol. [Read More…]
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