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Gunstruction: Virtuality To Reality
Gunstruction is an online virtual rifle builder. It uses a rendering engine via an application that runs through your internet browser. So there is no software that is downloaded. It has virtual components from many manufacturers. The virtual builder allows you to choose whatever part you desire and build your rifle. Gunstruction then takes it […]
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Q-Series Conceal Carry Holster
Fellow Top Shot alumnus and former Dept of Homeland Security firearms instructor Gary Quesenberry recently came out with a new pistol holster designed for concealed carry. I’m quite impressed with it and I want to explain why. Now, concealed carry is a really personal thing where your body type, clothing style, and firearm preference all […]
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Trigger Pulls: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I recently posted an article evaluating the Beretta ARX-100 rifle, and the feature that I feel was most detrimental to the shooting experience was the trigger, which actually maxed out a trigger pull gauge. My friend CJ is serious about distance shooting, reloading, and is quite handy when it comes to trigger work and as […]
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FBI Training Division Justifies 9mm Caliber Selection
LooserRounds got its hands on a PDF document from the FBI Training Division going into detailed justification of the 9mm Luger pistol round for Law Enforcement. My take? Makes sense for law enforcement, but the caliber wars are far from over. Full text of the justification below. If you want to see the original, hit […]
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Burnt Bronze Kahr Pistols
Kahr has been busy this year releasing pistols in a variety of non-traditional colors. The current offerings have a Cerakote Burnt Bronze finish on the slides. The three pistols are variants of the existing CW9, CW40 and CW45 pistols in 9mm, 40 S&W and 45 ACP respectively. All guns have a MSRP of $466. Prior […]
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Showcasing Peshawar
The Durrand Line has divided the countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1893 when the British Empire created it with the king of Afghanistan. More for territorial reasons than ethnic, the line literally splits the Pashtun tribe in two, half of it’s people in Afghan provinces and the other half of them in Pakistani provinces. […]
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THE PROVING GROUND: KORD and ASVK
Seriously. I have a new favorite show to follow. It is a Russian show called the “Proving Ground” (english name obviously), and is subtitled. In the episode I was directed to, they review a couple of weapons. The KORD machine gun and the ASVK 6S8 sniper rifle. They start out at the Degtyarev plant (which […]
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POTD: CZ 75 B
Schizuki sent us this photo of his CZ 75 B chambered in 9mm Luger/Parabellum. The grips are Hogue CZ-75/CZ-85 Pau Ferro Grips, which in my opinion look a lot nicer than the factory plastic grips. Submit photos you have taken to TFB’s Photo Of The Day.
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Thales Awarded Contract To Produce F90 Rifle for ADF
The Australian Defense Force have awarded Thales a contract to produce an unspecified number of Thales F90 rifles for them. The F90 is a modernized Steyr AUG. Jane’s reports… Thales Australia has received a low rate initial production (LRIP) contract from the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) for the company’s F90 5.56 mm assault rifle, developed to replace the […]
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Manta Navigation Light – Quick Peak
Manta, known for their gel-like temperature resistant rail & suppressor covers is bringing its navigation light around Modern Day Marine. Soldier Systems has photos, but in short, its a low-profile fully configurable LED light that fits into a rail cover. At only 1/4″ thick and 6″ long, you get options to adjust the output. The […]
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Five Gun Reviews in Less than 1 Minute.
VuurwapenBlog reviews five weapons in under one minute. He talks about the Beretta 92, AK74, Glock 19, Mossberg 500, and a M&PC. Most of what he says is stating the obvious. But I find it interesting how much information he is able to squeeze in to this video.
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Truth About Stopping Power
Cowan of Breech Bang Clear wrote a very intriguing article about Stopping Power. It is actually a good article about the anatomy and the importance of knowing how it works with regards to bullet placement. Caliber, it is said, is not as important as round placement and penetration Cowan repeatedly reminds the reader that […]
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Another Ruger Announcement
In the recent weeks, Ruger announced several new firearms including: the LC9s, Gunsite Scout rifles in .223, Ranch and left-handed models of the American Rifle, and the LCR chambered in 9mm. It seems that they have one more thing to introduce. In a flash sweepstakes similar to the one leading up to the new Gunsite Scout […]
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New From The S&W Performance Center – Ported M&P Pistols
I have always been a fan of the M&P line of pistols. I like them much more than Glock pistols because of the grip angle, and the lack of a “glock-bump” on the grip. One of my EDC pistols is a M&P40c that I use when I am looking for a smaller, more concealable pistol. […]
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The Brass Wrangler AR-15 Brass Catcher
I’ve used a few of the mesh brass catchers out on the market that attach to your AR-15, and for the most part they kinda suck. There’s currently one on the crowd funding site RocketHub that looks like it doesn’t suck. Called the Brass Wrangler, it’s made out of Kydex and snaps onto a Picatinny […]
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Firearms Semantics: “Battle Rifle” and “Assault Rifle”
To most TFB readers, the terms “battle rifle” and “assault rifle” are probably familiar ones. A “battle rifle” is something chambered in 7.62mm, or maybe any full power rifle cartridge, which has a big 20 round box magazine and fires semi-automatically (perhaps also with a fully automatic setting of limited usefulness). An “assault rifle” is, […]
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POTD: 1977 S&W Model 27-2
This beautiful photo was taken by HKG of his S&W Model 27-2 manufactured in 1977. The Model 27 has been a popular gun with consumers and law enforcement ever since its introduction almost 80 years ago in 1935. The ’27 was originally named the “Registered Magnum”, because it was chambered in Smith & Wesson’s new .357 Magnum cartridge, […]
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Germany Government to Cut Arms Exports
It will be no surprise to TFB readers that the German government is against its own arms industry, we have reported this many times, but now the German Minister for Economic Affairs is openly saying he plans on cutting down the number of arms exports. It is no wonder that German firearm makers are moving production overseas. […]
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Shooting From Horseback
EnsignExpendable of the excellent Soviet Gun Archives blog translated a Soviet manual on shooting handguns and rifles from horseback, back in March of this year. I’m sure TFB readers will find it interesting! An excerpt: “Peculiarities of firing from horseback If firing a rifle from horseback is done mainly during patrols and other cases when […]
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How Suppressors Work (The Best GIF I Have Ever Seen)
Sometimes, I am just in awe of what a good creative person backed by a solid concept can create. SilencerCo has created the most impressive GIF image I have ever seen. By animating the shot, the explanation is incredibly more effective than a simple static graphic could hope to explain. Outside of my lauding, the […]
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