On the 5th of October, China and the Philippines held a handover ceremony for 3,000 rifles in Manilla. China has donated another 3,000 rifles to President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines in an effort to aid the countries war on drugs and terrorism. The Norinco [Read More…]
You may know of Maxim Defense and their PDW stocks/braces. Well they are getting into the PCC bandwagon. Maxim Defense joined up with Tresna. Jose Jaureguizar of Tresna is now working for Maxim Defense. The Universal BCG is his brainchild. The undercut rail makes it [Read More…]
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…]
Defense Distributed is a small company located in Texas that makes a specialized CNC machine called a Ghost Gunner that allows individuals to mill an AR lower. While anyone can complete an 80% AR lower with a few hand held power tools, the Ghost Gunner allows, in [Read More…]
I am going to do something that may frustrate and annoy the majority of our readers. By giving you just a small tidbit of information with no images, specifications or associated details as supporting documentation, I will leave you all hanging on the edge of a [Read More…]
10mm is the very best handgun cartridge ever made. There. I said it. If you’ve been following my series of ballistic gel tests on the TFB YouTube channel, TFB TV, you’ve noticed I try to work in some 10mm as often as I can. And I’ve done dozens of 10mm [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…]
The legacy M9 handgun is ten times as reliable as the standard required for the M17 MHS handgun, claims manufacturer Beretta Defense in a recent press release. During acceptance testing of the most recent delivery lot of M9 handguns, the guns averaged a malfunction [Read More…]
CAA has announced the upcoming release of the upgraded version of Micro-RONI chassis. The new version is called Micro-RONI Plus. It retains all the features of the previous model and adds some improvements. Let’s watch the CAA’s video introduction first. As [Read More…]
During September 2017 there is a large Military exercise in Sweden called Aurora 17. It’s the largest Swedish military exercise in over 20 years, and there are a lot of awesome photos and videos in the media stream. Almost 20 000 soldiers from the Swedish Armed [Read More…]
We recently got our hands on Cross Breed’s latest addition to the companies continually growing IWB holster collection, the Founder’s Series. In particular we took a look at the Founder’s Series SuperTuck® IWB Holster, in addition to the Founder’s [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…]
Kalashnikov Media , a dedicated media website of Kalashnikov Concern, has released a video where the designer of PL-15 and PL-15K pistols, Dmitri Lebedev, talks about the compact version of his pistol. Here is that video (with English subtitles). [Read More…]
TNW Firearms recently announced it was now offering new versions of the Aero Survival Tactical Pistol (or ASP) that feature an extended handguard and an SB Tactical SOB Pistol Stabilizing Brace. The SOB brace is a slimmer, lighter version of the SB15 pistol brace. The [Read More…]
We shoot Speer 357 Sig 125gr Gold Dot jacketed hollow point ammunition from a Glock22 with a 4.5″ Storm Lake .357 Sig barrel into Clearballistics ballistic gel to measure velocity, penetration, expansion/fragmentation, and retained weight. Buy it at Ventura Munitions. Thanks to our sponsors: [Read More…]
BAE Systems has announced a new robotic unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that could assist future infantry units with tasks ranging from explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) to casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), and even target suppression. The robot, called [Read More…]
Rob Romero demonstrates how to chamber a round into various handguns with just one hand. It involved a rearward jerking motion with a quick forward punch. The rearward jerking motion moves the slide rearward and thanks to inertia it keeps moving rearward as he punches [Read More…]
Quarter Circle 10 has introduced a new weight adjustable buffer assembly for the AR-pattern blowback operated pistol caliber carbines. The buffer comes with four aluminum, four steel, and four tungsten weights, as well as four rubber spacers. Having that choice of [Read More…]
TNW Firearms has introduced a build kit version of their Aero Survival Rifle. It comes as a parts kit which you need to assemble yourself. The receiver of this kit is 80% finished, which doesn’t qualify it as a firearm according to the US legislation. The kit [Read More…]
Considering the fact that I am a lover of polymer, the absence of manual safeties and my ammo choice starts and ends with the number nine, I’m not exactly sure that I am the best choice to review a 1911 pistol. On the one hand, although I can appreciate the [Read More…]
After about two decades of offering two handgun sight options, the new XS Sights F8 night sights diversifies the company’s product lineup and give shooters yet another option to consider when upgrading their sights. The new F8 night sights feature a figure-eight [Read More…]
American Tactical Imports is an importer and seller of all sorts of firearms and accessories.They offer everything from polymer AR-15 lower receivers and match grade threaded Glock barrels to shotgun ammunition. They’re also the importer of the popular GSG 1911 in [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…]
Sorry guys! It’s been a few weeks because James went to visit Glock HQ in Smyrna, then went to Oregon to see the total eclipse, and then went to Slovenia to visit Arex and Polenar Tactical – all in three weeks. We’re going to catch up the mailroom ASAP! Note that Patreon supporters [Read More…]
Even a casual observer of the firearms industry might pick up on the rise of new pistol caliber carbines that have entered the market in recent times. Those based on the AR platform have been particularly plentiful. Dark Storm Industries (DSI) is one of the companies [Read More…]
The Sig Sauer P320 line of pistols was never something that caught my attention – and it has nothing to do with the recent news events and reviews. My rationale is that I already have a lifetime supply of defensive pistols that all do the same thing (spin up the [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Concern recently released a new English language video regarding their PL-15K compact pistol, MP-444 pistol, AM-17 and AMB-17 compact assault rifles, and SVCh semiautomatic sniper rifle. By way of a walkthrough from Kalashnikov Concern technical consultant [Read More…]
The Donau is the second largest river in Europe and the “highway” for many shipping companies. Several hundreds of thousands of tourists go on cruising trips, for instance on so called longboats that can carry over 250 people including crew. One of the 134 [Read More…]
It is absolutely amazing what can be made with some low tech machinery, raw materials and years of experience. Having built a few AKs of my own, I know first hand the difficulty of building a gun from a parts kit. However taking metal, wood, and now apparently polymer, [Read More…]
We recently received an excellent opportunity to tour Apex Gun Parts, which you can read about on a recent TFB post here. During the tour we got a chance to sit down with Jeff Salvig and really ask him some in-depth questions about the surplus industry and how he got [Read More…]