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BREAKING: French Defense Procurement Department CONFIRMS Heckler & Koch HK416...
If any of you still had doubts about the HK416’s rumored win of the French AIF (Arme Individuelle du Futur – Future Individual Weapon) contract, doubt no more. The French DGA (Direction Générale de...
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What Is a Caliber System, and How Does It Affect Ammunition Design?
In a previous post about the sometimes ambiguous meaning of the word “caliber”, we discussed how the word had mutated through the centuries, picking up different definitions and connotations along the...
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POTD: MP5 Fail
Saw this posted on Facebook. To the props/weapons master: You had one job. Now to be fair the actress or possibly extra might have been directed to do a mag change and clearly does not know how an MP5...
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“Controllable” vs. “Low Recoil”– What Do We Really Mean?
We hear a lot of talk about how some firearms are “controllable”, while others are not. The word “controllable” or “manageable” is often used in gun reviews to describe the recoil characteristics of a...
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Firearm Showcase: The Heckler & Koch XM29 OICW, the ULTIMATE Individual...
In May of this year, I got the rare opportunity to travel to Heckler & Koch’s headquarters in Ashburn, VA, to take a look at some of the experimental and prototype firearms they have located there...
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Modern Historical Intermediate Calibers 023: The 6.35/6.45x48mm Swiss GP80
Information on this round and the weapons designed to fire it is scarce, so the details in this article may be at times incorrect. Just letting you know. -NF Before the SIG SG 550 was adopted by the...
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Modern Historical Intermediate Calibers 024: The 4.6x36mm HK/CETME
Today we’ll be looking at a round with one of the strangest-looking projectiles ever designed for a military weapon: The joint Heckler & Koch-CETME 4.6x36mm round designed for the HK36 en-bloc clip...
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Matador Arms SKS Sabertooth Chassis
I recently had a brief range day with Matador Arms and put some rounds through their SKS and Sabertooth Chassis combo. Matador is a Canadian company, and produces a variety of accessories for the...
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Firearm Showcase: The Heckler & Koch MP5 PIP, Improving Greatness – HIGH RES...
In May of this year, I got the rare opportunity to travel to Heckler & Koch’s headquarters in Ashburn, VA, to take a look at some of the experimental and prototype firearms they have located there...
View ArticleForgotten Weapons Finds Marine Corps MC-1952 Sniper Garand
If one has been following the fantastic Forgotten Weapons channel for the last few days, one would notice a plethora of fantastic World War 2 sniper rifle projects making their way across the upcoming...
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What’s Wrong with Lever Guns?
Imagine an alternate universe in which Hollywood has spent decades making genre movies in which every single main character uses a Borchardt C93, and now factories are cranking out almost nothing but...
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22Plinkster Takes On a Tacti-Cool 22 – The Aklys ZK-22 Bullpup Chassis
The ZK-22 bullpup chassis has a storied history. Originally developed at Red Jacket Firearms and featured prominently on one of their TV episodes, the ZK-22 started with the now ill-fated company with...
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Bullpup 2016: New Manticore Products
For several years now Manticore Arms has put on an excellent show and sponsorship of a number of companies and vendors at the annual Bullpup Shoot in northern Illinois. Some of the prominent bullpup...
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Remington Rifle Owners – Lawsuit Settlement Information
Ok…if you own a Remington 700, Seven or related model of rifle, listen up. A federal judge ordered both Remington and the complainant in a recent class action lawsuit to make what amounts to a “last...
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Ruger 10/22 In Mannlicher Trim
Sturm, Ruger & Co. teamed up with the firearms distributor Talo to offer a pair of Mannlicher styled 10/22 Carbine. These rifles have full length Mannlicher stocks made of walnut that offer a very...
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Exclusive: DVL Lobaev 10 Saboteur: Fully Suppressed Short Range Sniper Rifle
Russian company, Lobaev Arms, has developed a fully suppressed sniper rifle called the DVL Lobaev 10 Saboteur. The rifle is designed for short ranges (0 – 650 yards) but optimized for the lowest...
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BACK TO THE FUTURE? Textron Displays Newest Polymer-Cased Telescoped Firing...
It looks like it could be back to the future for the US Army, if Textron’s new carbine design is any indication of what’s to come. The company unveiled its latest prototype of a cased, telescoped...
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Do you even Breach Bro? Back to making entry 101
This video is apparently sweeping the interwebs at the moment. From a number of captions so far, we see this labeled as an “FBI Alaska SWAT team” and attributing this to the FBI Alaska field office....
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Bullpup 2016: Vadum Electronic eBP-22 Bullpup
We covered the Vadum electronic .22 LR several months ago with a comprehensive review on TFB (very solid review by Tom R). Since then, the Vadum team has been working away at the design, and had it not...
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Bullpup 2016: Circle 10 AK Developments
Circle 10 AK is a small company based in northern Illinois that designs and manufactures niche products for the Kalashnikov platform in the United States. They have been relatively successful as a...
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