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SILENCER SATURDAY #61: Subsonic 300 Blackout & AAC Ti-RAID 30
Good afternoon everyone and thanks for coming back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday. This week we continue our dive into the Advanced Armament Corp (AAC) TI-RAID 30 and a bit of subsonic 300 blackout decibel metering. That’s 300 AAC Blackout to you. We’ve got both the direct thread and QD TI-RAID 30’s in house and they […]
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Cloud Defensive OWL (Optimized Weapon Light) Review
Last year Cloud Defensive started a journey to make the best weapon light on the market. It took a year and the light has gone through some significant changes from when I posted about it almost a year ago to the day. Click here to see what it looked like a year ago. Well, I […]
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POTD: Hunters of Gunmen (M107 Barrett .50 BMG)
Today’s Photos are of scout sniper team members in the U.S. Marines. Above you can see U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Bryce Hopkins, a scout sniper with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Air-Ground Task Force-6 shooting the SASR M107 Barrett .50 Cal during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) aboard Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California […]
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Featured Deals of the Week – 2/22/19
Harbor Freight Apache – $29.99 with coupon 81892470 What the deal is: In light of some of the unfortunate stories about flying with firearms, this week I’m including this Apache case. It is a hard-shell watertight case, perfect for transporting “specialized equipment” as the manufacturer puts it. Its exterior dimensions are 16.5″ x 6.75″ x […]
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Reptilia Corp’s CQG Grip And DOT Mount
Reptilia Corp was founded by some guys who used to work at Magpul. One of them went onto AXTS and helped them re-brand into Radian Weapons before starting Reptilia Corp. Well now they have started their own company to make the products they wanted to make but were unable to due to logistics and other […]
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True Austrian Love: First GLOCK G46 Glamour Shots
As a reminder, the elusive GLOCK G46 pistol with its rotating barrel and takedown slide-plate is only available to a small fraction of our readers. Specifically, the men and women who defend and protect the German State of Saxony–Anhalt. The rest of us, as the story goes, are in a persistent patience pattern, because GLOCK has […]
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Law Enforcement Agencies Adopt Gen5 Glocks
Glock have confirmed a number of law enforcement contracts releasing a statement celebrating the law enforcement communities’ response to their new fifth generation pistols. Glock have confirmed that in recent months five local and state police forces have replaced their old sidearms with new Gen5 Glocks. The agencies span the US from Washington state to Maryland, […]
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Modular Handgun System Roll-Out Reaches US Army Military Police School
The US Army’s roll out of the new M17 Modular Handgun System continues with the US Army Military Police School among the latest units to recieve the new SIG Sauer-made pistols. The US Army Training and Doctrine Command have posted an article announcing the Military Police School’s transition and getting some reactions from those now […]
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M1A Vs. SKS – A Better Battle Rifle?
Comparing the Springfield M1A to a Russian SKS. Joel shoots them and tries to determine how they stack up and which one is a better battle rifle. You may notice there’s very little discussion about the accuracy of these guns. You can expect a minute of man at distance and approximately two MOA at 100 […]
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[IDEX 2019] Edelweiss Industries from Austria
Edelweiss Industries, not to be confused with the Swiss Edelweiss Arms, is truly an unusual find in a defense-oriented event such as IDEX. The small Austrian company, born out of the shooting range Edelweiss Adventure, offers an interesting array of Glock accessories. Edelweiss Magazine Base Pad A Glock magazine base pad extending the capacity and […]
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Concealed Carry Corner: Fitz Special Colt Revolvers
Today’s installment of TFB’s Concealed Carry Corner series is a historical one telling about one of the most interesting early attempts of adapting a full-size handgun for concealed carry use. Particularly, in this article, we’ll take a look at the history of modified Colt revolvers known as Fitz Special. John Henry FitzGerald was a police […]
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POTD: Homemade Pistol Seized In Ukraine
Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine seized a homemade pistol and three magazines from a man in early February. The pistol in question appears to be quite well made compared to these. The news report didn’t provide any other information about the pistol, however, there are several things to note. The barrel seems to be about […]
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Swiss B&T defends its GL06 Grenade Launcher
The French Police is using the B&T Swiss-made GL06 launcher in 40mm caliber, which they re-named LBD40. The B&T GL06 launcher is produced to work with the 40 mm B&T SIR less-lethal ammunition, which B&T calls a state of the art in point-of-aim & point-of-impact less lethal systems for public order, law enforcement and peacekeeping operations. […]
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Orlando PD Select SIG Sauer’s Virtus Rifle
SIG Sauer have announced that Orlando Police Department have selected their SIG Sauer Virtus Patrol Rifle. The modular SIG Virtus weighs just under 8 lbs and is available in 5.56x45mm and .300 BLK with a 16-inch barrel and a choice of buttstocks. According to local news reports, the Orlando Police Department, which has more than 700 […]
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IPSC World Championships in Czech Republic 2020 – PCC and Mini Rifle
The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) of the Czech Republic has announced some exciting news for anyone interested in shooting Pistol Caliber Carbine or Mini Rifle. They have asked to host the First World Championship for Pistol Caliber Carbine and Mini Rifle in 2020. The name Pistol Caliber Carbine is pretty self-explaining, but the term […]
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9MM Gatling Gun From Tippmann Armory
It seems like a bunch of companies debuted their own version of a Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) at SHOT Show 2019. Check out our Top 5 new SMG / PCC list from SHOT 2019. There was seriously a lot of them this year. Well the folks over at Tippmann Armory didn’t debut a new PCC, they […]
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458 SOCOM Lever Action Rifle by Bishop Ammunition & Firearms
Bishop Ammunition & Firearms has introduced a lever action rifle chambered in .458 SOCOM. The rifle is based on a Marlin 1895 GBL which was redesigned and re-barreled to be able to chamber arguably the most popular big bore AR-15 round. The company brought this rifle to the SHOT Show 2019 and they have just announced […]
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The Transparent Heckler & Koch G36
The Heckler & Koch G36 was created for the requirements of the German Armed Forces, but has been adopted by a long list of countries and users. Anyone who follows current news should be aware of the problems that have been reported (since 2012), and in 2015, the German Minister of Defense announced that the […]
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Passing the Mantle…
Dear TFB Readers, Today I announce that I am stepping down as Editor in Chief of The Firearm Blog. As some of you may know, one of the other major facets of my life revolves around Wilderness Medicine. Recently, I had the opportunity to become much more heavily involved with that passion both in instructing […]
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From Hollywood to Hooah!
Carly Schroeder Last March, I trained with Tactical Night Vision Company (TNVC). For this course, I got the opportunity to partner with Carly Schroeder. #Notagunbunny It was clear that this was not Carly’s first course. Carly’s training resume includes many top companies. Some of these include Telluric Group, Taran Tactical, and Max Ordinate. She also […]
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