The Lone Survivor Foundation is holding a raffle to raise funds for its charitable efforts. The prize? A custom Lone Star Texas Strong Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Compact pistol. The pistol is a donation from Brownells and Smith & Wesson. Finished in a Cerakote [Read More…]
The Royal Danish Army, Hæren, are reportedly about to embark on trials to replace the venerable SIG P210, which has been in Danish service since 1949. The iconic P210 is world renowned as one of the finest pistols ever to be issued as a standard issue sidearm. [Read More…]
While much of the recent talk around SIG SAUER has been about the company’s P320 handguns and various rifle offerings, its traditional line of handguns continue to be very popular with shooters. Guns like the P220 and P226 continue to be good sellers for the [Read More…]
The USMC have officially adopted Glock’s 19M and designated it the M007. The new concealed carry pistol is being issued to Marine Corps Criminal Investigators first. For Corps personnel requiring a easily concealable sidearm the M007 replaces the larger M9 [Read More…]
Magazines are widely regarded as one of the most likely points of failure in a semi-automatic firearm. It is for this reason that using quality magazines is so important for both sport shooters and those carrying a firearm for self defense. One of the better known names [Read More…]
SB Tactical, a company well known for designing and manufacturing stabilizing braces for a number of different firearms, has introduced a side folding brace for CZ BREN 805 S1 Pistol. Just like other braces available on the market, this one also is not legally a stock [Read More…]
A company in the United Kingdom is importing SAAB’s Barracuda system, renaming it the Bullet Katcher. The idea is to use pellets stacked in rigid containers that could be fitted within commercial walls and dividers. These pellets would then absorb the impact of [Read More…]
Smart gun technology in the United States usually refers to various measures being taken by a manufacturer in which they aim to make firearms harder to access by non-owners, or those without special permissions for that particular firearm. Korean S&T Motiv is going [Read More…]
Y-man is back again, after quite a long absence and I sure am glad to be back writing about some of my continuing adventures. I am sorry that I stopped writing regularly. I have had some pressures at work and I also got this mistaken notion that my writings were [Read More…]
Ed Brown Products will celebrate its 50th anniversary of being in business in 2018. The company is gearing up for a year long party, and part of its celebration will be the release of a new gun called the 2018 Executive Target. The 2018 Executive Target is a 1911 style [Read More…]
It is easy to forget, what with all the hubbub about SIG’s selection for M17, Glock’s protest, and SIG’s subsequent recall, that the M17 program was intended to procure a “total system package”, not just a handgun. This meant, besides the [Read More…]
With the first Hudson H9’s finally shipping Advanced Holster have introduced a new modular holster for Hudson Mfg’s pistol. The H9’s unusual frame shape narrows the available holster choices and Advanced Holster are one of the first manufacturers to [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Concern have shown off a rare example of Mikhail Kalashnikov’s automatic pistol developed in the late 1940s. Kalashnikov’s pistol was beaten by Igor Stechkin’s entry into the trials, the APS. In the late 1940s, the Soviet Union began a [Read More…]
An interesting 19th century revolver turned up during a Police raid in Liverpool, UK. The revolver has a tip up break action and appears to be styled similarly to the Webley-Pryse cartridge revolvers of the 1870s-80s with an octagonal barrel. Sadly, no [Read More…]
Inland Manufacturing announced a new .30 Carbine chambered pistol that it plans to ship in 2018. The new pistol has a design similar to that of the reproduction M1 Carbines the company already makes. However, this gun is definitely different. Starting off, the gun uses [Read More…]
Eagle Imports recently announced the company was now shipping the Llama Micro Max pistol. This pistol was first shown in the United States two years ago at the 2015 National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers Expo and Annual Meeting. According to the company, [Read More…]
What was most telling about Iran’s Defense Industries Organization’s display at this years IPAS 2017 was what was not present at the show. Previously we’ve reported on Iran’s attempt at an AR15 copy (currently in service with some units, in a [Read More…]
There’s a new gun in town, and its name is the TP9SFL. Recently announced is the new long slide version of the Canik TP9SF. Called the TP9SFL, the new pistol has a 5.2″ match grade barrel and an overall length of 8.27″. Also setting it apart from the [Read More…]
Wilson Combat announced a 40th Anniversary edition pistol to celebrate the company’s many decades of gun making. The new 40th Anniversary CQB Elite is a 1911 style pistol that appears to be a true presentation grade piece. It has many of the classic features of a [Read More…]
It has been announced that the US Army’s Modular Handgun System, the XM17, will officially become the M17 and begin issue to units near the end of the year. The Army anticipates that the XM17 will complete the materiel release process, which ensures equipment [Read More…]
Brownells, the go-to shop for gunsmithing supplies, recently began to sell its own third generation Glock pistol slides (not compatible with Gen4 or newer guns.) The first offering from the company was a slide with a cut for a Trijicon RMR sight. Additional slides have [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…]
This summer Glock has emerged as the winner of not only one, but two very substantial contract victories to supply the Philippines National Police and the Armed Forces. The first contract was awarded in June of this year to supply the Filipino National Police Forces [Read More…]
Unlike previous Glock models where triggers and trigger bars can be more or less switched between models of the same caliber and frame, Glock changed some of the design features, most prominently being the ambidextrous slide lock which therefore changes the shape of the [Read More…]
American Built Arms Company has recently released a version of their MOD*X™ Side Folder Mechanism for the KRISS Vector series of pistols to allow a user to mount an ATF approved pistol brace on. The side folding mechanism simply threads directly onto the rear of a [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…]
In an interesting twist of events, the State Department has refused an export license from Sig Sauer valued at $1.2 Million to sell firearms to the personal security detachment that protects Turkish President Recep Tiap Erdogan on a daily basis. The move has come after [Read More…]
A recent article in the Marine Corps Times highlighted Marine Corps Systems Command’s interest in the XM18, the compact version of the recently adopted XM17 that the U.S. Army will begin fielding en-masse in the oncoming months. Gunner Wade, known popularly [Read More…]
DRD Tactical announced the company was now shipping the Aptus Multi-Caliber Weapon System. Both pistol and rifle versions of the gun will now be available. Both the rifle and pistol versions of the Aptus will be available in chamberings for the 5.56 NATO and 300 BLK [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…]
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