I am going to keep this short and sweet – a federal judge has rejected a California law that was set to take effect to ban the ownership and possession of firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez said that people should [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James has the opportunity to review the Ruger LCRx in .38spl +P. The Ruger LCR series of revolvers are lightweight polymer/aluminum/stainless steel hybrids in numerous calibers. The Ruger LCP has a monolithic aluminum frame mated to a polymer grip and trigger group [Read More…]
One of the items I did not know when planning a wedding (well, outside of anything about planning a wedding), was the requirements to provide gifts and trinkets to all the various guests and support personnel. I was woefully mistaken in the assumption that my [Read More…]
For those of us so blessed to have served with open-bolt machine guns, we know that clearing malfunctions can be a real chore. Where standard shoulder-fired small arms like the M4 are truly difficult to get to cook-off temperatures, belt-fed weapons can get to those [Read More…]
Garret posted a photo of his Uzi with a custom coupled magazine. He used a Taccom mag coupler to join a 60 round mag to a 40 round mag. Not sure if this would feed 100 rounds but I would like to see him try. I need to try out the 100-round monster mag, made […] [Read More…]
MTM has released a product for when all of us have access to a field like Mr. Guns & Gear and perhaps something ideal for him. Where Mr. GnG has always been shooting off of his bags (and now recently, having updated to some rests), often we could stand to see him [Read More…]
As drenched as they are in National Firearms Act (NFA) goodness, my friends at Q are experts in all flavors of science and innovation. Even when it comes to building something as polar opposite to suppressors and short barreled rifles – such as a California [Read More…]
Asian Defense News recently published a compilation of high-quality photographs lifted from various Mandarin news sources such as Ifeng and Nownews of Chinese Military Police competing in a skill of arms competition, in Yunnan Province. The literal Mandarin [Read More…]
FMV in Sweden just closed the doors for a tender for over 5 000 red dots and mounts. It will be interesting to see what they chose, but my money is on an Aimpoint (Made in Sweden) of some kind. Probably the Aimpoint Micro T-2, but without reading the detailed [Read More…]
RMA Armament announced the company is now selling Level IV plates for $115 each. These plates are NIJ 0101.06 certified and they are not made of steel. Rather, these plates are made of monolithic ceramic and polyethylene. This reduces the concerns about spalling that [Read More…]
Columbia River Knife & Tool (CRKT) announced a new folding knife earlier this year. Called the Septimo, the knife was designed by Jeremy Valdez, a veteran of the US Army Special Forces. The Valdez design takes into account his experiences as a Green Beret. The blade [Read More…]
Many of us remember the Savage Arms Model 110 BA rifle. A beast of a rifle, but absurdly heavy if you need to be mobile with it. Back in October 2016, Savage Arms took a lot of consumer input to heart and updated the 10/110 series with a Stealth Precision line-up. They [Read More…]
Besides the inevitable wait, National Firearms Act (NFA) purchases are plagued by the unknown pitfalls of blind faith. Specifically with regard to silencers, consumers are often left to internet rumblings and local gun shop advice to make what ends up being basically a [Read More…]
Have you ever found yourself having to load your shotgun in the dark and you just couldn’t get the shells loaded into your shotgun mag tube? I’m sure we’ve all been there before. If you’re tired of fumbling in the dark as you load your shotgun [Read More…]
The multi-lug rotating bolt as used in a number of semi-automatic firearms today has a significant number of advantages over numerous other designs, to include tilt locking or blowback operated mechanisms. Ability to unlock becomes easier than a standard two lug design, the forces on the lugs are [Read More…]
A very niche group of hunters who pursue elk, mountain goat, and sheep have always been eluded by one thing that cannot be paired with potatoes on a dinner plate. The founder of KUIU, Jason Hairston, likes to call it the “ultimate, ultra-light mountain hunting [Read More…]
The Iranian press has released news of the Islamic Republic’s newest rifle design from a recent press conference held on the Zulfiqar modular rifle in Tehran. Milmag has what appears to be an excellent overview of the rifle in Polish, gathering photographs from [Read More…]
The largest, and most prestigious, division in IPSC Practical Rifle Shooting is Semi-Auto Open. But there are other divisions as well, like Manual Standard, where you use a bolt-action (or pump for that matter) rifle without a scope. You can’t use a bipod either. [Read More…]
SIG SAUER’s P320 handgun line is the darling of the firearms industry right now. Fresh off of winning the new pistol contract with the US Army, the pistols have garnered a lot of attention from the shooting public lately. One of the newest variations is the P320 [Read More…]
Adams Arms announced the company is now selling its new P Series Micro Block piston systems for AR style rifles and pistols. These kits are designed to replace the typical direct impingement system common to the AR platform with a short stroke piston. Adams Arms has [Read More…]
IWI US just posted this on their Facebook page. I called them to confirm, it is a .308 Tavor. The rifle looks interesting. It is like a hybrid between the SAR and X95. The handguard and mag well are reminiscent of an SAR. Even the bolt release is SAR styled. Yet the [Read More…]
One of these days I am going to ask a company like Cole-Tac to make me a suppressor cover for one of my rimfire silencers – for the mere fact that it just might look tacticool in pictures. If we are talking about rapid fire or precision rifle cans, however, a heat [Read More…]
A cool head under fire was on display in a video released just yesterday, in which a female sniper of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ, a part of the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces narrowly avoided the bullet of an ISIS sniper who had her in his [Read More…]
Since the Government Accountability Office’s decision to reject Glock’s protest of the Modular Handgun System contract award to SIG Sauer, the GAO has released a statement. The 17 page document outlines not only the reason for the GAO’s decision, but [Read More…]
It is the summer of 1989 and I’m a kid on a family vacation traveling through Silverthorne, Colorado. Being huge Indiana Jones fans, we decide to beat the heat and and catch a matinee showing of ‘The Last Crusade’ for a second time. It was that [Read More…]
Aybars is a Turkish Twitter analyst who very recently has been sharing a number of very detailed photographs concerning precision rifles among Turkish security forces. Primarily these are from the infantry deployed in Syria, however, he has also focused on Special [Read More…]
By now you are probably wondering if I get a secret monthly check from Switzerland to promote B&T products. So let me take a moment to set the record straight: I can not confirm or deny any foreign payroll income related to sexy Swiss firearms. But if your reading [Read More…]
Earlier this month, JP Enterprises officially launched the new Enhanced 9mm Silent Captured Spring (Enhanced SCS). This new buffer spring system is based on the original silent captured recoil spring, but with design changes to give it more mass to help with low mass [Read More…]
Remington Arms Company announced another 1911 style handgun. This one is called the Model 1911 R1 Ultralight Commander. According to the company, the gun has an aluminum frame which works out to a 20% weight reduction when compared to a steel framed version of the gun. [Read More…]
B.E. Meyers found this copy of a 1988 promotional video they made for their Dark Invader Night Vision System. This was before they made laser systems. Enjoy the trip back to the 80s. Did you see the female officer take that aggressive stance? LOL Here are the [Read More…]