Weekly Deals Roundup II – Mossberg 500 12-Gauge, M&P Sport II 5.56, 420 rounds of 5.56, Glock Magazines, and the Ruger LCP Deals of the Week number two, now with mags and ammo! Mossberg 500 12-gauge with HEAT SHIELD and pistol grip – $249 What the deal [Read More…]
Concealed Carry Corner: Concealed Carry In A Vehicle If you really think about it, we probably live in a golden age of firearms training right now. If you’re a U.S. citizen, there are thousands of instructors, schools and courses available and a lot of good [Read More…]
Sumter, South Carolina’s police department is set to transition completely to SIG Sauer pistols. The department will move away from its current Glock duty pistols, including the Glock 43 currently carried as an department-issued backup pistol. According to SIG, [Read More…]
Many people don’t know that it was H&K – not Glock – that designed the first polymer-framed, striker fired pistol. The HK VP70 (or “Volkspistole 70”, which translates to “the people’s pistol,” with the “70” designating the year of [Read More…]
In September we reported that the US Army had selected 6 Sub Compact Weapon prototypes for testing. Contracts for test guns were placed with Global Ordnance, Angstadt Arms, B&T USA, Shield Arms, Sig Sauer and Trident Rifles. Today we have a first look at [Read More…]
Carrying concealed is a responsibility one must be very comfortable with. While the legal ramifications of self defense are for a more lengthy article and discussion, one cannot avoid the importance of comfort when carrying concealed. Often there is a compromise [Read More…]
Here we go again, my friends. Illegal firearms keep on falling to police hands in this neck of the world, and, as you may guess, these are likely to represent only a fraction of those which are actually in use by criminals. The purpose of articles like this is to give [Read More…]
Without slicing into a full blown political rant, as “gun people” we all know that there are so called “non-gun-people” that walk among us. Those that, upon seeing a firearm, or even what apppears to be a firearrm, recoil in fear and beg for mercy from its [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James brings you another year of nonsensical Halloween pumpkin pounding, but this time we’ve got plenty of machine guns to assist with properly celebrating this holiday. A very special thanks to DJ Deville for allowing us to use this killer blend of the Halloween [Read More…]
Lone Wolf Distributors Timberwolf Large frames are almost here. These are the .45 ACP/10mm Auto versions of the company’s famous Glock frames. Lone Wolf has just announced that the large frames are now available for preorder and will ship soon. Apparently, Lone [Read More…]
Ivan Šantić, a Concept Designer from Zagreb, Croatia, trained at Hyper Island in Sweden He can be found at MOTH3R, which he describes as his “sustainable platform”. The reason why you find him, and his designs, here on The Firearm Blog is because he has [Read More…]
Many talk about concealed carry and assume it is all about getting a license. Some take it a step further and attempt to prevent printing, but there is far more to concealment than not printing. Some even attempt to achieve the “instafamous” sub-second draw. While a [Read More…]
When I first got back into guns as an adult, the range I would visit in the Bay Area had a Wilson Combat 1911 for rent. So I rented one exactly once, and after shooting it and looking up the price-tag I vowed never to touch another 1911, lest the fever get its hooks [Read More…]
Nemo Arms, or its expanded name of New Evolution Military Ordnance, is known for their high-end and uniquely chambered AR-15 rifles and tactical bolt-action firearms. Something they have never dabbled in before is handguns until now. They quietly announced on their [Read More…]
Spoiler alert, your greatest weapon is your brain. A saying I find true is that not every problem has a gun solution. In an effort to help you understand what I mean by this, allow me to walk you through a scenario. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is [Read More…]
We know TFB readers and viewers have watched a John Wick film and thought, “damn, I wish I could shoot like that.” Fortunately, James Reeves has your back: James and the TFB crew went out to Taran Tactical Innovations to meet and train with living legend Taran Butler – the man who [Read More…]
When someone entertains the idea of carrying for the first time they will inevitably be inundated with one slapstick cliche after another. The main objective for any new concealed carry holder is to wade their way through these tongue and cheek comments to find the best [Read More…]
Springfield Armory has released an XDm in best millimeter at last. I have been calling and writing emails to them for years, nagging for a 10mm version of their XDm. And the XDm-10 is finally here. I am a big proponent of 10mm Auto because it is an extremely versatile [Read More…]
Finland’s police are set to update their firearms inventory, reportedly replacing the venerable Heckler & Koch MP5 with the Czech CZ Scorpion EVO 3. YLE, Finland’s national public broadcasting company, reports that with the end of a contract with [Read More…]
Frankly, I don’t know. It doesn’t even make sense, but I find myself carrying a 5-shot Ruger LCRx revolver more often than I thought I would (my review on the LCRx is below). The best part about it is that Ruger didn’t even send me this gun – I [Read More…]
I first had the pleasure of getting hands on with the Micro Roni during an event at the end of 2016. The event was focused on the Micro Roni, the MH1 Reflex Sight, and a training course (“IDF Train the Trainer”), and was run by Mikey Hartman, CEO of CAA (and [Read More…]
For this episode, we go to Northern Thailand where we take a look at some of the shooting ranges in Chiang Mai. Specifically, we were able to sit down some of the shooters, owners, and instructors at a range called “Shooting Adventure Chiang Mai” and “Range 333” where we [Read More…]
We put the 10mm Glock models 29 and 20 against each other head to head to compare velocity from the two barrels in this video and we also fired 10mm Underwood 220 grain hard cast and 10mm Lehigh 140 grain Extreme Penetrator into a long row of ballistic gel blocks to [Read More…]
Welcome back decibel chasers, thank you for joining us for another episode of TFB’s Silencer Saturday, where the suppressor industry can be as strange as a bad acid trip on Halloween. I had grand plans of metering and reporting results on not one but two Delta P [Read More…]
Even though I started writing this column days ago, apparently Wednesday was National Situational Awareness Day. So much for my digital self-awareness. But the timing couldn’t be better: The US Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) dropped a hypothetical restaurant [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James grabs a thick Tecate and announces the winner of the S&W 500 Magnum revolver giveaway. Plus, James discusses new Patreon giveaways (including the giveaway of a Ruger Security-9 for Patreon supporters who give $5 or more) and opens a picture of a… [Read More…]
We’ve got another guns seized in Brazil post, but this ones a real doozy! Police in Barra da Tijuca, a neighborhood in the west side of Rio de Janerio, Brazil recently found and seized an M2 Browning machine gun chambered in .50 BMG. We’ve posted about gun [Read More…]
Lantac United Kingdom just released these pictures of the 9INE, which is a straight-pull 9×19 mm rifle. Why you ask? Well you are probably allowed to own a wider range of firearms than the (poor) people living in the United Kingdom then. Imagine an Island banning [Read More…]
The frequency that Strike Industries releases new products at is really amazing. Almost every week they reveal a new accessory. This past Friday we told you about the company’s latest product and today, less than a week later, we are reporting about the [Read More…]
With a more traditional form factor, GLOCK magazine capability and a threaded barrel option, for the money The Ruger PC Carbine is hard to beat. It is fun, useful accurate and, when paired with a quality silencer, quiet. Much like the 10/22 platform, Ruger has left the [Read More…]
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