Good afternoon shooters and welcome back to TFB’s Concealed Carry Corner where we discuss anything and everything related to the topic of packing a firearm for personal protection. Today we are going to revisit a topic we touched on more than two years ago: a by the [Read More…]
Today’s Photo is a custom made Heckler & Koch MR 223 A3 with an 11” barrel. Schrombo built it with a nice selection of parts and took the picture so we can share the experience. It took quite some time and quite a few parts to make the Heckler & Koch MR [Read More…]
We apologize for our tardiness in getting you the results for January’s poll. SHOT Show had us all run a little ragged and overwhelmed. This was a pretty fun one to debate though because the options and possibilities seem nearly endless! We also all have our own [Read More…]
A Stuttgart court has passed judgement in the case that accused five Heckler & Koch employees of illegally selling firearms to Mexico. Heckler & Koch were found guilty of breaking Germany’s ‘War Weapons Control Act’ by selling over 4,000 HK [Read More…]
The “tragic boating accident” phrase has seen a lot of use this past year, but solid examples continue to pop up. The Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office in Washington released a warning to the public about 20mm anti-aircraft ammunition washing up on [Read More…]
Stoeger is a Turkish manufacturer mostly known for its shotguns, which are frequently based on designs of the parent company Benelli. Being part of the Beretta Holding, however, Stoeger has also been manufacturing semiautomatic pistols for some years. Specifically, they [Read More…]
I saw this in a local store. When I mentioned who I write for, he said: “you may be interested in this”. It is a custom AFVG. That is not what he calls it, that is just what I called it. It is a hybrid of an angled foregrip and vertical grip. Walter Davis is [Read More…]
Malyuk is the new bullpup assault rifle which has apparently been adopted by the Ukrainian Army. Over the years, TFB has been following the development of the rifle which evolved from a relatively crude bullpup AK to a more polished version with fairly unique features. [Read More…]
It’s been a while since the US Marine Corps announced that they would be deploying the M27 IAR in a Designated Marksman Role, adapting it by mounting the Leupold TS-30A2 Mark 4 MR/T 2.5-8x36mm rather than an ACOG. The USMC have shared some photos of Marines from [Read More…]
Winchester have issued a recall notice on several lots of their 130 grain Full Metal Jacket .38 Special white box ammunition. This is due to the possibility that they have incorrect powder loadings. Here’s Winchester’s product recall notice in full: Olin [Read More…]
“The Non-Violence Torrent” is an initiative that, according to themselves, aims to disrupt the 3D-printed gun market. They plan to do this by flooding popular file sharing sites with fake gun CAD files and torrents. Instead of the CAD file, your [Read More…]
In 2017, at the French exhibition Milipol, TFB told you about and showed you pictures of FN Herstal’s SCAR-SC with 300 BLK in development. Time flies, and as Enforce Tac 2019 open 6 – 7 March 2019 in Nuremberg (Germany), TFB will be there to examine the real [Read More…]
A year ago we reported that the Russian Federation’s army had adopted the 5.45x39mm RPK-16 Light Machine Gun. Reports from Russia’s MoD’s official newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda (or Red Star), confirm that the RPK-16 has begun operational testing with Russian [Read More…]
Wilson Combat has announced that along with the Gen5 Glock 19 and Glock 17 pistols, now they also offer Glock 45 pistols with the Vickers Elite upgrade package. This combination of custom features was specified by none other than Larry Vickers himself. Here is how [Read More…]
Circle 10 AK and Mrgunsngear teamed up to create a new AK three-prong flash hider called Tri-Tip. It has a rather interesting and unusual design with the lower prong being much longer than the other two. Let’s see why it is designed so and what advantages it [Read More…]
Within the last year, Brownells has been releasing a number of different parts for the ever-popular Ruger 10/22 rimfire rifle. Namely, they started making the BRN-22 10/22 receivers which are now available in many different flavors – railed or drilled and tapped, [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows HMS St Albans during an intercept and escort of Russian Missile Cruiser Marshall Ustinov in the British Channel. Above you see a crew member of the HMS St Albans manning a Minigun (M134). The Mk44 Minigun is a ship-mounted [Read More…]
Now that most of the SHOT Show hype has subsided, I wanted to post about a few products at the show that I found interesting. Most, if not all, the products below were found in the “basement” halls. Those are the halls on the lower floor where smaller and [Read More…]
Agencija Alan has a stable presence at IDEX, however, for the first time in the author’s memory, in this edition, they finally took their products out of glass cabinets and welcomed the public in the booth. They showcased the full range of their small arms [Read More…]
Welcome to ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, which may turn into a new regular series on here at TFB. As you could probably gather from the title, this column is going to look at different guns that are actually for sale and pose the question – is this a nice [Read More…]
Russia’s Rosoboronexport, which is part of the Rostec State Corporation, is launching a Global marketing campaign to promote their new AK200 series manufactured by the Kalashnikov Concern. The AK200 series currently have the following versions: AK200, AK203, AK204 [Read More…]
In this video, James performs a full review of the updated Steyr AUG M3 A1. For the sake of reminiscing, here’s Alex C.’s description of this fine combat rifle: “The Steyr AUG has been around for quite a while. It was designed in the 1970s, an era where terrific advances in special [Read More…]
The Sabatti ST-18 bolt action rifle is this Italian company’s latest addition to their tactical and long-range bolt action rifle line. The rifle is designed in cooperation with BCM Europearms, a company known for building competition rifles. Let’s take a [Read More…]
Last year we reported that Saudi Arabia had entered into an agreement with Russian small arms manufacturer Kalashnikov Concern’s parent company, signing a memorandum between Saudi Arabian Military Industries and Russian Rosoboronexport State Corporation. With the [Read More…]
Browning have announced their Maxus with a camouflage pattern from camouflage designers Realtree. The 12 gauge, 26-inch barrel Browning Maxus has been covered with Realtree’s Timber camouflage pattern as a limited availability offering from Browning. [Read More…]
For a few years now, there has been an increasing trend of attempts to smuggle arms into Nigeria through the ports, hidden in sealed containers, and in false bottoms of trucks crossing the almost inexistent borders from the Benin Republic and from the North of Nigeria, [Read More…]
Today’s Photo of The Day is a silhouette of a French Leclerc Mk2 Main Battle Tank (MBT), shrouded in smoke after firing during the live fire element of a joint UK/French exercise. The aim of the exercise, which took place in Estonia, was to give troops from both [Read More…]
Hamond is a small Ukrainian company designing and manufacturing suppressors from cal .22 to 30 mm. Engineer Evgeniy Moskalenko, the CEO and chief designer of Hamond, brought to IDEX a selection of cutaway models showing an array of different internal geometries. Hamond [Read More…]
CCI has announced about the release of their new Clean-22 rimfire (.22 LR) ammunition which is specially designed to reduce the lead fouling and build up. While everyone will benefit from this feature, it should be especially important for those of you who shoot [Read More…]
The Massachusetts State Police has been scrutinized in recent months for their handling of seized firearms at Logan Airport. The State Police destroy around a third of seized firearms. In some cases before the persons charged with possessing them have had their day in [Read More…]