When thinking about carrying a concealed firearm, it’s easy to focus on one specific item rather than the overall big picture. It’s important to look at different aspects as a bigger picture rather than only worrying about just what knife you carry or what type of gun is best for you any given day. There’s a number of things everyone should at least consider carrying when they leave their house with a firearm. Now everyone may have different opinions on the matter, and that’s totally fine but just keep in mind this can be a flexible list depending on your preferences and needs for daily carry. Let’s dive into some of the most important things you can carry when concealing a firearm.

The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 movie, which is based on the book, “Siege at Jadotville,” by Declan Power, which is based on the real events that unfolded during the Congo Crisis in the early 1960s. The film follows “A” Company of the Irish 35th Battalion, deployed as a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the Congolese state of Katanga, where multiple factors and factions reached a boiling point. As the title of the film suggests, “A” Company, stationed in Jadotville, is besieged by an overwhelming force of separatists and mercenaries. I won’t dive into the politics of the conflict here, other than to say that one of the hot commodities that added to the turmoil in Katanga was that it was known for its rich supply of uranium, some of which found it’s way to end World War 2.

There are two things that are easily remembered in the gun world.  Your first gun, and your favorite gun store.  Nestled in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City is my personal favorite, Gallenson’s Guns and Ammo.  In 1916 Russian immigrant and tailor,  William Gallenson, opened the store as a tailor shop. In 1925 that tailor shop turned gun store and pawnshop, and it’s been open ever since.

Welcome back everyone to another Featured Deals of the Week. I’m your host Benjamin F, the gun-running fun-loving discord-moderating neanderthal that lucked into a job at TFB. Let’s get down to business.

Arming the Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the United States Armed Forces will be an interesting endeavor when it comes to small arms. Naturally, any conventional weapon will be at the Space Force’s disposal while on Earth, but space brings a whole host of issues and challenges when it comes to firing guns in space as I covered in PART 1.

Strike Industries, a company never resting on its laurels, has just released a second accessory for the popular CZ Scorpion EVO PCC. This time they focused their attention on the magazine release, a component which has already seen some efforts from the competition (as seen here and here). This denotes that there is a potentially good market for the accessory and Strike Industries’ combination of innovative design and affordability will surely get a share of it.

Over the last few years, LARPing has become something where certain people online and in the comment sections will continuously make fun of and say there’s no value in running around with all of your tactical gear. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a ton of fun to make fun of certain people who dress up head to toe in tactical gear. Despite how entertaining some people can be, is there any real benefits to wearing your gear around the house and becoming accustomed to your loadout? Let’s dive into whether or not LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) has real value or if it’s just for basement dwellers.

Welcome back dear readers to another Featured Deals of the Week. I’m your host, Benjamin F, and this week’s theme is “the first post since SHOT”. Let’s dive right in.

I’ve always been one to believe that a compensator for ordinary pistols was somewhat pointless since there’s not much recoil from the rounds, to begin with. I’ve been using my P320 X-Five for about two years without any complaints. Things were great until I saw a used P320 compact for sale at $300. Like an addict looking for a score, I had to jump on the deal and was now the proud owner of yet another P320. Unlike my other P320’s, I was looking for a host gun to take the slide and fire control unit out to build something a little more special.  With all the hype about next generation pistol brakes, I decided to build a SIG P320 Compensated range gun. 

If the Ultimate gun safe ever existed this is probably it. Florida-based  Big Daddy Unlimited is now offering the The Continental Safe – styled after the one seen in John Wick III.

Starting at just $15, the 5.11 Vehicle Ready Hexgrid system for your car or truck looks like a great way to carry guns and gear in your vehicle. James Reeves interviews the creator of this system and brings you the full scoop. Per 5.11:

New for 2020 from S.W.O.R.D. is a humungous brass catcher that can fit their Mk18 Mod 1 Mjölnir chambered in .300 Norma mag, .338 Norma Magnum, and .338 Lapua Magnum.  The first thing to catch my eye when I walked by their booth, their new brass catcher sits under a beefy deflection chute that covers the ejection port.  The deflection chute is fastened to the rifle via a QD latch attached to a section of rail on the fore-arm.  This accessory will be a boon to shooters who want to keep their brass out of the dirt. More importantly, it satisfies an important safety requirement of heliborne snipers who might use such a weapons system:  Keeping their brass out of the rotors.

Brannon LeBouef, from #nolatac, sat down with Heckler and Koch at the #shotshow2020 range day for #tfbtv to talk about their new offerings. Primarily they were showcasing their SP5 which technically came out a few months ago and James Reeves did a full video on. That is essentially a “civilian legal” MP5 from the German mothership. Check out James’ video on that one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1a1…

One of the guns I was looking forward to getting a first hand look at at this years SHOT Show was Tippmann Armory’s 1/3 scale version of an 1865 Gatling Gun, chambered in 9x19mm. The Tippmann Gatling caused quite a stir last year and has since begun shipping. The guns currently come mounted on a low wooden wheeled carriage but on display at the Tippmann Armory booth this year they had the gun mounted on a new aluminium tripod.

Dillon Aero, makers of the M134D Minigun that is currently in service with the US Military, has come out with a new force multiplier. The Dillon Aero 503D is a tri-barrel 50-caliber rotary machinegun. It is entirely configurable for use aboard helicopters, boats, humvees, or armored vehicles. In other words, it’s a really, really big gun.

XS Sights has been providing affordable aftermarket sights for both pistol and rifle products for years.  2020’s SHOT Show was no exception to this.  XS sights arrived on the scene with two new big dot options for DXT series of handgun sights and XTI offset AR15/AKM sights.

Well known and highly regarded for their drop-in AR-15 and AR-10 triggers, CMC has now moved into the rimfire world. Their newest offering is a drop-in trigger pack for the Ruger 10/22. Guys I’ve gotta say I’m really excited about this.

At SHOT Show 2020 SureFire debuted new silencers for both the SOCOM and RYDER series of silencers.  In true SureFire fashion, the new silencers look to build onto the existing SureFire lineup.  SureFire is accomplishing this by providing new options in both build material and caliber.

At SHOT 2020 today Yankee Hill Machine Co showed off three new suppressors that we at TFB have been excited about ever since their announcement.

At SHOT Show range day today,  Kel-Tec introduced their brand new version of the SUB2000, the SUB2000 CQB. The CQB has an integral suppressor and still folds easily for compact storage. The forend of the rifle actually functions as part of the suppressor, and take-down is extremely easy. You lift a tab and unscrew the front half of the rifle which then slides about an inch forward. The rifle folds in half just like your standard SUB2000.

Would you believe I wrote 1/17/19, corrected it to 1/1/7/20, and only after typing up most of this article I realized it was wrong? Well, it doesn’t really matter. Here’s some deals to drain your wallet.

Finding time to go to the range isn’t always the easiest thing to do for everyone. We all have busy lives and even though range time is basically the male equivalent of a spa day, it’s not always easy to set aside a specific time to train. Often times when we get to the range, we like to do the same drills multiple times without trying anything new or pushing ourselves. In the past, I’ve talked about finding targets online to mix up training, but incorporating movement is a fairly big factor to gauge your current skill levels. Shooting on the move can also show a shooter what improvements they need to work on based off their hits on target.

In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves Reviews the NEW Zastava M70 Z-PAP AK-type rifle. The Z-PAP is the newest iteration of Zastava’s legendary M70 PAP series of AK rifles. However, unlike in the past, Zastava has taken importation of these AKs into their own hands. Zastava not only manufactures the M70 Z-PAP, but they also no longer rely upon third parties for importing and converting the rifles for 922 compliance. What does that mean for price and quality? See this review to find out.

With SHOT Show around the corner, news, hints, and clues concerning new products are already starting to trickle out. Today’s development relates to IWI-USA, who looks to be introducing a new product – but the big news isn’t the product itself. It’s the implication of the product.

Welcome everyone to ‘ Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?‘, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, then this is as good a place as any to start! This is where we usually look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a sweet deal or does it only have Fudd appeal?  

Over the past few weeks, I was at various indoor and outdoor ranges with friends as well as coworkers of mine. On every occasion we saw a number of different people who all were equally unique in their own ways. We saw all kinds of people from the new guy who we thought were going to flag every person in the complex to the old man who was yelling about 45 ACP and MUH 1911. I was fairly amazed at the number of different people at the range. I think its a great thing more people are coming into the gun community but sometimes its fun to look at the various categories.

Ever since President Trump announced that a Space Force should be established, firearms enthusiasts have envisioned space suited door gunners, shooting any variety of futuristic-looking “space guns”.  The hope for a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range has been renewed once more.  As we move closer to the proposed, four year buildup of the United States Space Force, let’s look at some more realistic options for choosing a standard issue firearm of the Space Force.  First, though, let’s look at some of the challenges that stand in the way of bringing a firearm into the final frontier.

Here’s an ironic twist for you: as someone who publishes content for the largest firearms news blog in the world, there are many days that I wish all social media would simply die in a fiery car crash.The endless bickering, the obsession with minutiae, rampant tribalism and all those selfie/foodie pics are like a bad case of herpes – persistently annoying. However, as a human, I recognize that social media is now how we actually interact with one another in the shadow of a new decade. Longing for the days of the Elks Club, poker night or any other type of in-person socializing will get us nowhere. Being visible online allows us to share our passions with millions of people around the world. And that is a powerful tool.

The new BCM MK2 Upper is the latest offering in firearms technology from Bravo Company Manufacturing. This new, optics and suppressor minded upper receiver seeks help shore up some of the inherent weaknesses of the standard AR platform.

In the last month, it was announced there will be a new awards ceremony during SHOT Show called The Gundies. A social media marketing firm called Forged Relations came up with an idea to have people vote for their favorite personalities and influencers in the gun community. When I first heard about the Gundies, I started laughing because it’s obviously based on the awards ceremony from an older TV show called The Office.  Let’s jump into some of the details and what the Gundies are all about.