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Aim Sports, purveyor of several rifle accessories, has just added a new product to its extensive line of aluminum handguards. The new release offers a visual and practical improvement to the popular IWI Galil ACE through a lean profile with M-LOK mounting slots.

Have you ever shot the Tavor TS12? It’s a beast and for sure a different looking shotgun. I first encountered it at the SHOT Show Range Days, as it was released to the public.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the World of firearms through the lens of a camera. Every day we run a few selected pictures with a short story and a credit to the person behind the lens. Today we’re looking at soldiers with the Negev, a light machine gun in 5.56×45 mm, developed by the Israel Weapon Industries (IWI).

Welcome back to TFB’s daily Photo Of The Day article series. In today’s edition, we are looking at the UZI PRO, submachine gun based on the legendary UZI design of 65 years back.

Israeli Weapon Industries, or IWI for short, is best known in the US for producing guns like the Tavor bullpup, the Masada and Jericho pistols, the elusive Carmel battle rifle, and their new US-manufactured AR, the Zion-15, among others. They are also a key supplier for the Israeli Defense Force, as well as a host of other military forces and law enforcement agencies all around the world. For example, TFB recently reported that IWI is selling more than 16,000 of their Negev NG-7 light machine guns to the Indian Army. Now they’re rolling out an entirely new initiative, with a July 21st press release detailing the announcement of multi-part comprehensive riot control solutions. The release reads as follows.

IWI’s joint venture with India’s Punj Lloyd Raksha Systems could be set to produce the ARAD and CARMEL rifles alongside the Tavor X95 already announced. The ARAD was unveiled in September 2019 while details of the the CARMEL emerged in July 2018. The ARAD is a gas-operated rifle in a conventional AR-pattern configuration while the CARMEL is arguably more futuristic with a polymer chassis but using the same short-stroke gas piston and rotating multi-lug bolt.

Join the U.S. Army, see the World! Or just have a lazy look at TFB’s Photo Of The Day and share the experience. Here we see Green Berets train Special Forces Soldiers from the Côte d’Ivoire in different shooting tactics and medical training. There are a few firearms from IWI here, the top one is a CTAR with a MOR but there are also X95s, probably the L model with M21 optics. Over the five-week training, each soldier got to shoot around 2,500 rounds.

Welcome back to another episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast where we take a behind-the-scenes look at the firearms industry. Today we talk with Jeremy Gresham, Director of Sales and Marketing at Israel Weapon Industries (IWI). Jeremy and IWI have been our friends and partners for a number of years, trusting us to give input on product refinement during reviews like the TS12 shotgun. Enjoy the listen.

Almost a year ago TFB reported that the Indian Army was on a tour to source 16,400 Light Machine Guns. The tour included visits to three (to our knowledge) firearms manufacturers, including  Arsenal in Bulgaria and S&T Motiv in South Korea. The winner has now been announced and the first price goes to Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), in a $118 million deal for 16,479 NEGEV NG7 7.62mm Light Machine Guns (LMG).

One of the coolest things at IWI’s 2020 SHOT Show booth wasn’t a new gun, like the IWI Zion or their very cool bullpup shotgun, but something a little older, something that couldn’t even fire a shot if it wanted to -an instructional cutaway of a Tavor SAR.

In this episode of TFBTV, James discusses the new IWI Z-15 with Jeremy from IWI. James previously covered this breaking story earlier this month. The rifle is IWI USA’s first AR-15 to be produced in the US. Check out the earlier story here.

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.

Over two years ago TFB were one of the first to report about the upcoming IWI Tavor 7 in 7.62×51 mm.

Making a big splash at SHOT Show 2018, the IWI Tavor TS12 shotgun was impossible to walk by without noticing.  Even at early hours, there was a line to pick up and handle this thing.  This author was expecting a lot more heft, but even at roughly 8lbs unloaded, the Tavor TS12 shocked me how light and well balanced it felt.  The balance improves even further when fully loaded with roughly 1.25lbs of shotgun ammo.  It has been a long time coming to market, however, due in large part to IWI wanting to perfect the shotgun’s reliability with a wide range of loads before it got into consumer hands.

In this episode of TFBTV, James discusses his review of the three prototype copies of the IWI TS12 he has used over the past few months. Is this the ultimate tactical shotgun?