A particularly innovative product at the Shot Show this year was the Holosun SCS, a solar-charging system for its red dot sights. With its ability to use sunlight to power the device and charge its battery, it has the potential to be a perpetually powered optic. No [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV IWA Special Mailroom, James curses, complains, and reads your awful mail. NSFW language. ***TFBTV MEETUP IS ON: Nuremberg Germany, TODAY, March 6, 2022 at 2030h (8:30PM) – Nuremberg time – at the King’s Arms in Nuremberg. Email James@tfb.tv if you plan to [Read More…]
I didn’t write the type of this firearm in the title because I am not really sure what it is. It is not a pistol, because it has a stock … or is it a brace? WIll they sell it in SBR form only? Or is it an SMG/PDW marketed for the military and LE markets? [Read More…]
The R8 Silence from Blaser is an integrated solution for hunters, a rifle and a silencer in one. It looks like a “bull barrel”, but is actually an integrated suppressor. From the start, the R8 Silence was only available in .308 Winchester, which can be a [Read More…]
EnforceTac is an annual special trade show which only accepts visitors from official agencies, i.e. security agencies, Police and Special Forces and military personnel. The show has grown further in its seventh edition and hosted about 250 companies in three halls at [Read More…]
The yearly exhibition IWA is very soon upon us, and the German firearms manufacturer Oberland Arms is releasing a new 9×19 mm semi-automatic rifle in AR15-style. It is called OA-15 M9 and comes with a 45 cm (17.7″) match barrel in Stainless steel made by [Read More…]
HERA Arms in Germany have been busy developing new products and refining old ones. At IWA in Germany they will display all news in full force and you can get a glimpse of what’s coming below. Unfortunately, not all products will be available in the USA, but most [Read More…]
HERA Arms of Germany will be presenting a long list of news as IWA Germany 2018 opens the doors. They can be found in Hall 7, stand 536. Please note that some parts may not be available in the USA straight away. This is the first batch of new products, we will get back [Read More…]
Country rifles, one of my favorite subjects. Well built AR-15s with sought-after parts combined with wonderful artwork. At IWA in Germany Rainier Arms brought a lot of interesting firearms, you can see their booth in one of the few instances it was empty – the [Read More…]
At IWA OutdoorClassics 2017 Leica presented a new rifle scope focused at customers looking for a high-quality optic in an exclusive design for the driven hunt. As much as possible of plastic and rubber materials have been removed, with the exception of the rubber [Read More…]
In the “Made in Bavaria” Unique Alpina booth at IWA 2017, the TFB team discovered some irresistible sniper rifles and optics. It’s hard to find any information about the Revic PMR428 on the Internet, but the solution looks very interesting. From our [Read More…]
Just over a month after the breaking news that H&K are releasing the HK433 in 5,56×45 mm we now have more information (and facts rather than rumors and some funny translations). We have also seen the “Four-Three-Three” live. Behind glass and in [Read More…]
Zeiss had the World Premiere at IWA 2017 in Germany for their new Conquest V6 riflescope. They presented three new models: 1.1-6×24, 2-12×50, and 2.5-15×56. The Conquest V6 line uses the high-quality FL lenses of the Victory line for the first time, with a light [Read More…]
The desire to make gunfire silent is probably as old as the first pull of the trigger. At IWA and EnforceTac, in the Pol-Tec booth, we found a very interesting solution from Fischer Development. They’re based in Austria, so it’s a safe bet that their [Read More…]
The G28 precision rifle will be available as the G28 Z. I would think that the “Z” stands for “Zivil”, or civilian. But as the G28 is the military version of the civilian semi automatic competition rifle named MR308, I’m a bit confused with [Read More…]
The Heckler & Koch booth at IWA is always very busy and 2017 was no exception. They only show their civilian firearms at IWA, “Sports and Security”. At EnforceTac it’s the Military and Law Enforcement product line. I would say that the H&K [Read More…]
Is 2017 the Year of the Low Bore Axis? It seems like it just might be! Amid a sea of other pistols advertised as having low bore axes (some of which do deliver on that claim), the Jablunka-based Czech Small Arms has introduced a new pistol with about as low a bore axis [Read More…]
On March 1-2, The Enforce Tac exhibition opens up the doors to an interesting world of “police equipment, security or tactical solutions.” This is where we find the Class III firearms. This is followed, March 3-6, by IWA OutdoorClassics, “the [Read More…]
In 2014 I saw the first Breda AR-15s at the IWA exhibition. Probably most famous for their semi-automatic hunting shotguns, it was a bit of a surprise to find AR-15s in Breda’s stand. Named the “B4 line” they are considered as as relatively [Read More…]
Schmeisser normally houses in the Waffen Schumacher booth at IWA, and this year was no exception. Some of these pictures are from the spring of 2016, but it’s the first time they’ve been published and they’re unique to TFB. All Schmeisser AR15s are [Read More…]
Schmeisser GmbH in Germany has released an AR-15 for dynamic and sports shooting, to what looks to be an ever increasing market in Europe and Russia. The name of the rifle is AR15 Dynamic M5FL 16,75”. New EU gun laws regulating semi-automatic firearms and magazine [Read More…]
The German company Blaser Jagdwaffen GmbH, more known to people as just “Blaser” had an impressive stand at IWA 2016. They introduced a new new over-and-under 12 gauge shotgun named Blaser F16. However this article focuses on the exclusive possibilities to [Read More…]
This is part 2 of the “Country Rifles” by Rainier Arms and Blown Deadline as shown at the IWA exhibition in Germany 2016. Part 1 can be found here. Bonjour! Some Freedom Fries with your SBR? Aimpoint Micro T-2 2 MOA on top. French flag. Together with [Read More…]
Recently shown off at the IWA tradeshow over in Germany, BRNO Defense has introduced their 7.5 FK BRNE Combat Field Pistol. Built around a proprietary caliber, the handgun is designed for military, law enforcement, and government personnel. Externally, the handgun bears [Read More…]
Steyr has introduced a new rimfire pistol to the European shooting market at IWA 2016. The pistol, aptly dubbed the “RFP” (which I imagine stands for Rim Fire Pistol), shares similar styling and its polymer framed construction with Steyr’s M9 and M40 [Read More…]
Miroslav sent us this photo of the H&K SP5K on display in Germany at the IWA gun expo. Read more about the H&K SP5K here.
TFB’s IWA coverage comes courtesy of Troubleshooter Berlin, who made it out to Nürnberg for the show. Many thanks to him for providing the pictures and information. I cannot think of a weapon so long dead that has risen from the grave quite like the FG-42. Only [Read More…]
Folks, you saw it here first. Brugger & Thomet (B&T) has developed a prototype .223 Remington version of their APC9 submachine gun. We don’t have any specs on the gun, but we can see from the photos that it uses AR-15 magazines, has [Read More…]
CZ may have abandoned the vz. 58 rifle, but Czech Small Arms (CSA) continues to produce a range of different models. The CSA vz. 58 rifles are chambered in 7.62x39mm and .223 Remington. They vary in size from the PDW-sized Compact to the much larger Sporter Rifle. CSA [Read More…]
Dynamic Arms Research is a high-end German manufacturer of AR-15 rifles. DAR manufacture their own uppers, lowers, rails and muzzle brakes. They use Lothar Walther barrels and Magpul stocks and magazines. They are chambered in .223 Rem., .300 Whisper and 6.8mm [Read More…]
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