The Firearm Blog

Stag Arms is now offering custom laser engraved rifles to the public.  The engraving is at no extra charge, but does require a 10 rifle minimum.  This is similar to the program offered by SIG SAUER and other companies.

Lage Manufacturing made this one off Aliens M41A Pulse rifle. It is a M-11 in 9mm shoved into the body of a M41A Pulse Rifle. They used a Remington 870 AOW/SBS for the grenade launcher portion of the Pulse Rifle. The actual movie prop was based off a Thompson M1A and a Franchi SPAS 12 shotgun. I don’t care what the Lage MFG pulse rifle is made of. It looks really cool and the round counter works. I would love a semi auto version of this.

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The NRA has teamed up with Natalie Foster and created a tv series focused toward females and shooting. This episode discusses and explains aspects that seem to be concerns for first time female shooters. I think it is a great resource. Any helpful information that can help get more women to the range is great. Back in NY, I volunteered to help with Ladies Day at the Range with my shooting club. I enjoyed teaching women to shoot and get over their nervousness and any hesitation with firearms. Share this video with any women in your life who are still gun shy or taking their first steps into the world of shooting.

Remember the Stery AUG in 9mm we posted 4 years ago? Well it looks like we’re able to get AUG bullpups here in the US afterall. Steyr is selling factory 9mm conversion kits over at SteyrArms.com. The kit works with all semi-auto models and comes with a barrel, bolt carrier group, mag adapter, one 25 round magazine and a dedicated 9mm stock. They retail for $1,499.

Thanks to Brian for the tip

Kahr is now combining guns and jewelry with the introduction of a bracelet and three charms.

For those, like me, who didn’t know about the Grendel P-30 well now you do.

While American kids are busy occupying their time trying to stack cups or solve Rubik’s cubes as fast as they can, these Russian students are competing in a competition. The goal? To disassemble or reassemble an AK. Just watch the kid at 3:00 min into the video. He is wearing a glove just so he can go faster. It is really impressive to watch. I am a little jealous that my PE classes in High School didn’t have AR field stripping challenges.

Seems lately everyone is making things in polymer for the AR platform, including lowers.  Having reviewed a polymer lower earlier this year, I can say that polymer is not ready quite yet for a structural part of the firearm like the lower yet.  Maybe in a few years they can perfect it.

CNN reports on the continued increase of woman taking up shooting for either self-defense, sport or both …

Hexmag’s first product on the shooting market is, appropriately, their hexagon-patterned 30 round AR-15 magazine. According to Hexmag literature, the HX30-AR offers an alternative 30 round high impact resistant fiber reinforced polymer magazine design with an anti-tilt follower, USGI spec magazine spring, tool-less disassembly, and the HexID magazine identification system. I received several magazines for testing and evaluation, and my first impressions were good. For an initial offering, the HX30-AR looks great, with a satin-esque finish that I find attractive. The magazines feel sturdy, and well made, with no blemishes on any of the examples I received. The HexID colored followers and spring guides look attractive, and offer a good option for those interested in magazine differentiation, such as law enforcement or civilian users.

Not content with the current G2 .308 offerings this year, DPMS has released the Compact Hunter. Using a 16″ barrel and collapsible stock, the Compact Hunter loses some weight and height to create a svelte smaller package. Sadly, losing the weight kept the price the same. MSRP is $1,699.

Walking down the aisles, many of the booths all look alike. Each with their tired yet simultaneously happy Marketing staff, you can almost tune each out. Its more of the same… until something special catches your eyes.

I was able to go hands-on with quite possibly the most customization precision rifle stock ever. The SISK STAR starts as a base receiver upon which everything is bolted on separately. The fore-end, stock, and other pieces are all additions to the receiver. Each piece is fully customizable. The stock is especially notable for its options including length of pull, cheek-piece height, and interestingly – cant.

An article posted to the Irish web magazine Independent.ie featured pictures of Haitian police sporting a Galil ACE 21 rifle and a Taiwanese T65 rifle or carbine. The T65 is in use by Haitian forces officially, but the ACE is not.

Live Free Arms has come out with steel machined mag release buttons. They are coated with melonite and retail for $26.96. It comes in two flavors, standard or extended.

To check out the mag release, go to their website.

Here is a pic of the extended version.

Here it is compared to the factory mag release.

Federal Premium announced the introduction of a new .50 caliber muzzleloading bullet that they claim:

EOTech has come out with a thermal viewer. MSRP is $3,499. I suppose that is affordable than others. But compared to the Flir Scout, the X320 is still more expensive.

Last month I was at the TAC-CON Media Event shooting the new 3MR trigger.  While we were there they hired a local videographer, Lear Miller, to video the event, and come up with a promotional video.  Lear also did the initial video that sent the firearms community into a tizzy over the new trigger system, with the fantastic shots of the trigger system at work, even before anyone knew what the 3MR trigger really was or what it did.  I am happy to say that the video turned out just as cool as the first one.

I do have a full review of the trigger in the works, with some other videos that I have taken coming out soon.  So stay tuned for a full review!

ATK has announced that the company is splitting into two, a defense company, which will be called ATK Orbital and a sporting company that does not yet have a name. ATK Orbital will take control of the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant and will sell ammunition to the new sporting company. Shares in the new sporting company will be distributed to existing ATK shareholders.