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SilencerCo’s Shorter 5.56 Suppressors
SilencerCo announced two new, shorter versions of existing model sound suppressors: the Saker K 556 and the Specwar K 556. Originally developed to meet a military specification regarding length, the company is now selling them to civilians. According to the company, testing with M855 ammo through barrels of 11″ – 16″ resulted in sound attenuation […]
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POTD: An AR-15 Inspired By Our Cousins Across the Pond
Todd, who lives “behind enemy lines”, built a 100% New York compliant AR-style rifle by building it without any gas system and so creating a manually operated bolt action rifle rather than a semi-automatic. It was inspired by the various bolt-action AR-15s sold in the United Kingdom. The parts list includes: Spikes lower KAK 18″ custom barrel […]
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Ammo Box Upgrade: Detroit Bullet Works Ammo Luggage
248Shooter turned me on to an offering from Detroit Bullet Works, a Michgan-based ammunition manufacturer. Touted as the “ultimate storage” system for your rounds, the Ammo Luggage systems are Pelican cases that are custom-cut to store and transport ammunition and impervious to most conditions shooters would encounter: Each one stored securely, and safe from just […]
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Fear Gear Sniper Veil
Fear Gear Camo makes a rather impressive sniper veil. Right now they don’t really have a product for sale, but they have a reservation link. You can reserve an order for a sniper veil and they are offering a 30% discount for orders of 3 yards or more.
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EPIC Ammo Prices Summary: The Last Six Months
Welcome to our second rollup including data from the previous 26 weeks of data collection. We have presented the data in a few different ways. We have a breakdown of the vendors that are consistently low and high. We are showing the lowest and highest recorded prices for a caliber (as well as the average). […]
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Ohio Ordnance HCAR
We posted about the HCAR earlier this year. Well apparently it was released this month. Kit Up! got a chance to play with it at the range. According to Kit Up! it has a hydraulic buffer which dampens the recoil to that of an AR-15. The one complaint is the weight. 11.75 lbs with only […]
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Kahr Arms Partners with United Sporting Companies
Kahr Arms is now partnering with United Sporting Companies for an exclusive line of their 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP pistols. These pistols are going to be Cerakote’d with a “Burnt Bronze” finish (which a sort of “earth tone meets bronze”) on the slides and new black appointments on the frames. They are being […]
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Ultimate Rail-Pod
CTK Precision is now offering something they call the Ultimate Rail-Pod. This is a mini-monopod designed to attach to the underside of a rifle buttstock that is built with a Picatinny rail. According to CTK, the two-stage design gives the shooter about 3″ of adjustment in the height of the monopod, which translates to about […]
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Guest Post: The Journalists’ Guide to Guns (How Not to Look Like an Idiot When Writing About Firearms)
Ben Langlotz is a patent and trademark attorney with 24 years’ experience, and his clients include numerous firearms industry companies. He is the author of The Bulletproof Firearms Business – The Legal Secrets to Success under Fire. Journalists. Bless their hearts. As a rule of thumb, any time we read a news story about a subject or incident […]
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Weekend Photo: Another First AR Build
battleshipgrey emailed us a photo of his first AR-15 build. It looks like a great gun. He wrote … This is my first AR build. The lower I assembled myself and the upper is a PSA blem with SQR rail. The AR is sitting on top of a Jeep my brother-in-law borrowed to meet us […]
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Weekend Photo: Happy Glocks
Oleg wrote … My first handgun is Glock 34 Gen 4. Since Glocks are quite popular, I mark my magazines to avoid mix ups at shooting range. Instead of putting initials or numbers I put a smiling face. Submit photos you have taken to TFB’s Photo Of The Day.
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Weekend Photos: Tactical Puppy (Dog and Gun #2)
Alex C. took this photo of his friend’s puppy with his H&K MP5K and Barrett .50 cal. Alex told me he is considering on naming his next dog Heckler. I suggested calling it Koch instead but he said there was no way he could run around his nice neighborhood shouting Koch (which sounds very similar to “cock”). The photo […]
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POTD: Francophile (Dog and Gun #1)
Jeff sent us this photo of his Papillon (a French breed) and his French Berthier rifle. The Berthier was chambered in the 8mm Lebel, the world’s first smokeless cartridge, and introduced in 1890. It remained in service for over 50 years and a few were still in use during the 1980s with the French Compagnies Républicaines […]
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Ammo Prices: 09/26/2014
Week 26 of data! Look out for the Mid Year Summary also posted today. There has not been a clear winner for a new caliber to replace 300BLK. There is still time to vote in the comments…! We do appreciate the support and constructive comments and will continue this article series as long as it […]
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Kalashnikov Legal Shenanigans: Baikal may be coming back to the USA
Last week Kalashnikov Concern claimed that US sanctions were not hurting them and production was up. This dubious claim could only be true government purchases had been increased (as I predicted they would be back when the sanctions were first announced). Yesterday Rostec, the giant Russian Government arms manufacturing conglomerate which owns a majority stake in Kalashnikov Concern, […]
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Seekins Precision’s new SP-10 308 Rifle
Seekins Precision have just announced their first .308 Win. chambered rifle. Seekins Precision SP10 is a high end .308 AR-style rifle featuring their new ambi SP 308 Lower, 308 iRMT-3 upper and 15″ SP3R – 308 handguard. The rifle has a the Seekins ATC muzzle brake, a Magpul STR stock, BCM Mod 3 charging handle, Ergo Deluxe grip, CMC Trigger […]
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A TFB Readers Handmade Steel Stock
A while back I wrote an article about a rifle mounted in a steel stock listed on Gunbroker. It was truly the weirdest rifle I have ever seen in terms of how “unique” it was. It looked as if someone had placed it in a large block of steel and started in with a grinder […]
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Troy PAR Video Review
Nutnfancy takes a close look at the Troy PAR (Pump Action Rifle) As an Ex-NY resident, I find this firearm to be exciting. If I was still living n NY, I would buy this. Now that I am outside of the wire, I think it is a great design and may look more closely […]
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POTD: Wall of Wooden Guns
I have blogged about the wooden replica guns made by Jenni Edwards in the past. She emailed me this photo of the last of her wooden guns, which she is selling as a set. They now feature EOTech holographic sights replicas with LEDs inside to replicate the laser hologram. They look awesome. I also like the […]
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SEAL Shot 27 Times & Gets the Job Done
I am absolute awe of the tenacity and never-give-up attitude of Special Forces. Adding to the litany of reasons that I am grateful that rough men stand at the door is the story of SEAL Senior Chief Mike Day, who cleared a room of four combatants after taking multiple hits in plates, limbs, and extremities. […]
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