Firearm News

Taurus GX4 Safety Notice Taurus says that some (not all) “GX4 pistols assembled and sold only in the United States may, under certain circumstances, discharge when dropped.” If you have one, they advise you to “safely unload and stop using your GX4 IMMEDIATELY. Failure to observe this warning may result in injury or death to… Continue reading News: GX4 Safety Notice, New Colt 1908, Ruger LC Charger 5.7, SA Saint Law Folder

Smith & Wesson Performance Center M&P 10mm M2.0 Smith & Wesson introduced their M&P model pistol in 10mm Auto earlier this year and now has a tuned Performance Center model. The new PC M&P 10mm has all the same things the standard model has but uses enhanced features such as a ported 5.6-inch barrel, optic-height… Continue reading News: SW PC M&P 10mm M2.0, a ‘Star Spangled Banger’ Desert Eagle, & Compensated CR920P

Hellcat Pro Threaded Barrel Version There are lots of micro-compact 9mm pistols on the market today, with SIG alone having like 30 different variants and subvariants of the P365 and everyone from Stoeger to Smith & Wesson and Kimber to Canik making more. However, none that I can think of have a factory threaded barrel… Continue reading News: Hellcat Pro Threaded Barrel, SA Operator in 9mm, More Turkish 1911s, & a Ruger Suppressor Host

P210 Carry Custom Works SIG has added a new Custom Works P210 model to its catalog this month. With the Germans and Swiss no longer making the vaunted classic, it has been left to the American branch to keep the flame going on these single-action single-stack 9mm handguns. The newest model takes the rather plain… Continue reading News: P210 Carry Custom Works, DBX 57 Stormtrooper, SA Threaded Barrels, & Girsan Negotiator

Lone Wolf DUSK19 Series Pistols One of the biggest (and original) players in the Glock clone game is looking to carve some more market away from Gaston. At the CANCON event at the Ben Avery Range in Phoenix, Arizona over the weekend, Lone Wolf announced the DUSK19 series of complete 9mm pistols. The new handgun… Continue reading News: Lone Wolf DUSK19 Pistols, Grayguns’ P320 Verdict, & Movie Mausers Hit the Market

We hit the aisles at the 152nd NRA Annual Meetings in Indy over the weekend and scoped out all the interesting stuff to talk about. Buckle up and dive in!

Magnum Research, which is owned by Kahr, has a new Desert Eagle just in time for the NRA Show. Dubbed the Viking L5, it is a Mark XIX L5 in .50 AE that features a 5-inch barrel with an integral muzzle brake– but is still likely to pack a wallop when it comes to recoil.… Continue reading Meet the Viking L5 Deagle!

On the eve of the NRA Show, where gun makers are easily able to interface with the masses, you see lots of cosmetic changes to existing platforms which are largely made to have something “new” on hand for the event. It usually helps if they are of the red meat variety as well as befitting… Continue reading Two Very Different Auto Ordnance 1911s

Introduced back in the 1990s along with the G26 in 9mm and the G27 in .40 S&W, the similarly sized Glock 28 was a double stack .380 that runs a modified blowback action. As it was made in Austria and too small for import under the ATF’s requirements for pistols, about the only way folks… Continue reading Glock Finally Makes an American G28

In a move sure to make zero friends among the boys in blue and tan, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon last week brought charges against an LA County Sheriff’s deputy for “unlawfully possessing an assault rifle and tracer ammunition at his home.” While law enforcement for years enjoyed an exemption to the state’s… Continue reading LA Gets Tough on Deputy with ‘Assault Rifles’

When Ruger Wrangler popped out in 2019, it was a basic no-frills .22 LR single-action revolver styled on their well-liked Single-Six but cheaper. We laid hands on early Wrangler models at NRAAM four years ago and thought it was okay, but wished it had better sights, a longer barrel, and was sold with an option… Continue reading New Ruger Super Wrangler 22 Magnum Convertible

The saga behind Ruger’s reboot of the old Marlin brand like a Phoenix from the ash heap of the old Remington Outdoors has been well-documented in these pages in the past. The TL, DR version is that Ruger bought a lot of parts and all the rights and technical packages in Remington’s bankruptcy sale, then… Continue reading Marlin Announces New Ruger-made 336 .30-30

As we reported two weeks ago, Springfield Armory is bringing a lot of new colors to its catalog in time for the upcoming NRA Show later this month. The newest addition to this is a two-toned Hellcat Pro with a matte black frame, sights, surface controls, barrel, and trigger fitted to a slide in Platinum… Continue reading Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro, Now in Platinum

Arizona’s Extar USA has been around since 1995 and specializes in making very lightweight guns through the “miracle of polymer injection molding.” A few years back, they introduced the EP9, a simple blowback operation pistol in 9mm that used Glock double stack mags, an M-LOK handguard, and AR-15 style controls, with the gun sold complete… Continue reading New: Extar EP45 PCC

Taylor’s & Company, a Virginia-based outfit that collaborates with a host of Italian replica makers to reproduce historical firearms, has teamed up with Uberti to take a stab at the Remington 1875 single-action but in a much more modern caliber. While the classic wheelguns, which was introduced by Remmy two years after Colt debuted the… Continue reading For those who want an 1875 Remington in…9mm?

EAA, the guys who have been importing all sorts of guns from Europe over the past 35 years or so, are looking to outdo Beretta on one of its staple concepts– the small tip-up barreled pistol. The new MC 14 T is made in Turkey by Girsan and imported by EAA. A 13+1 capacity .380… Continue reading EAA Goes Tips Up for 380 Fans

Vortex Optics has a new micro red dot in the catalog: Defender CCW. It uses an RMS footprint, offers choices in either a 3 or 6 MOA red dot reticle variants, and has what the company says “delivers the biggest sight window in its class for both-eyes shooting and enhanced peripheral vision.” Auto-Shutoff is at… Continue reading New from Vortex: Meet the Defender-CCW Micro Dot

One of the common tropes headed into the annual NRA Show is a bevy of new-ish product announcements which are typically nothing more than gun makers releasing updated colorways to existing product lines. With the NRAAM set for April in Indianapolis, cue the color announcements! Springfield Armory is jumping into the Crayola box with a… Continue reading Springfield Armory has lots of new Color Choices

North Carolina-based Bear Creek Arsenal has just announced they are branching out from their traditional 5.56 AR fare to blowback-actioned pistol caliber carbines. Using AR styling and Glock-compatible mag wells, the AR-10MM and companion AR-45 platforms are suppressor ready with threaded muzzles. Both use side-charging handles and an 8-ounce buffer. Each will be available in… Continue reading Bear Creek Debuts 10mm, .45 PCCs

Sig Sauer just acquired an Israeli defense company, General Robotics, whose name points you to the fact that the latter is into a lot of stuff like remote weapons stations and unmanned drones. Sig recently used one of GR’s remote stations, paired with their LM338 machine gun, at an event in Nevada just before SHOT… Continue reading SIG Buys Israeli Combat Robot Company

Georgia’s MasterPiece Arms has a new DS series race gun in the showroom– one chambered in .38 Super Comp Major. Now, this is not a regular .38 Super but rather intended specifically for IPSC and USPSA competing athletes in Open Division classes. Pistols ready to run such Major Power Factor ammunition are tough to come… Continue reading Looking for a new 38 Super Comp? MPA has one

Illinois-based Rock River Arms has introduced six new rifles for 2023, all in what they are calling their Operator DMR (Designated Marksman Rifle) series. Four are .308/7.62 NATO AR-10 style rifles while two are .223/5.56 NATO AR-15 pattern guns. Most will run 20-inch chrome-lined barrels (with a 16-inch variant available in both calibers) paired with… Continue reading Rock River Armory Goes DMR

Beretta has been making the Bobcat (Model 21) pistol for the past 40 years and only recently started making them in colors other than black or Inox (aluminum) and in what they call a Covert model that comes with a factory-threaded barrel, the latter something that many Bobcat owners often pay $125-$200 to have done… Continue reading Beretta Releases Three New Bobcats

Making sure they have all the niches covered, SIG this month has already announced at least four new 9mm handguns, including three P320 variants. The new P320s on the menu include Navy SEAL Foundation and Marine Raider Foundation commemoratives– a portion of the proceeds from the sale of these models earmarked to support those not-for-profits.… Continue reading SIG Announces Four New 9mm Pistols

Savage announced their straight-pull bolt action Impulse series guns a couple of years back and they have, thus far, proved popular enough for the company to introduce additional models. The newest is the Driven Hunter, which runs shorter (18-20 inches depending on the caliber) barrels on a gray synthetic stock. Offered in 6.5 Creedmoor, .308,… Continue reading Savage Adds Driven Hunter to Impulse Straight Pull Line

Rimfire masters Volquartsen introduced their semi-auto VT2 Takedown rifle a little while back in .22 Magnum and .17 HMR, and now have it in .22 LR. While that doesn’t seem like a big deal, keep in mind the rimfire market is something like 80 percent .22 LR, so odds are this variant will by far… Continue reading Volquartsen downsizes the VT2 to .22 LR

Last year, Sig Sauer pulled down what stands to be the largest rifle contract in 60 years by winning the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon system award. The rifle for the NGSW, the XM7, is now available to consumers in an NFA-compliant semi-auto variant complete with a 16-inch barrel. While the Army’s rifle is chambered… Continue reading Sig Sauer Debuts Civilian Variant of New Army Rifle

North Carolina’s Cosaint Arms has been cranking out double stack 2011 style pistols for a minute and their new model, dubbed the CP series, uses a “uniquely designed” ported slide, and barrel that sort of resembles the integrated comps seen on the Sig Sauer P365 XMacro Comp and P320 AXG Comp. The CP series includes… Continue reading Cosaint Arms New 2011 CP Series

Smith & Wesson is continuing to claw at the air with new products for 2023 by producing a 9mm pistol caliber carbine. As sort of a no-brainer, it is based on their M&P9 pistol but with a longer 16-inch barrel. Of interest, the carbine, dubbed the FPC, has a left-folding barrel assembly that roughly drops… Continue reading S&W Introduces Folding 9mm Carbine, the FPC

Utah-based SilencerCo announced something that would seem to be a no-brainer when it comes to suppressor makers: a Custom Paint Project. The concept is simple, with the company’s Cerakote-certified team able to refinish suppressors in one of five different colors for the cost of $89. Ideally, if you have a can that is going back… Continue reading SilencerCo Will Paint Your Old Can (or New One)

One thing that Beretta does really well is make unique exhibition-grade shotguns and their latest was presented at the Safari Club International Convention in Nashville, Tennessee last week. No word on the price, which is surely in the mid-six figure range, but it was created to mark the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of King… Continue reading Beretta Channels King Tut for One-of-a-Kind Shotgun

Bill Wilson loves to take good platforms and make them better. He’s done it with the 1911, Glock, the P320, and the Beretta 92. His latest effort is a team-up with Sig Sauer to take their basic fire control units and some small parts for the P365 and make them into something superb– the WCP365.… Continue reading Wilson Combat Debuts 16 Models of Customized P365s

Beretta-owned Finnish rifle maker Sako announced last week they are delivering an unspecified quantity of their top-shelf TRG M10 multi-caliber sniper systems to the New York Police Department’s elite response them, the Emergency Service Unit. A bolt-action rifle with a fully adjustable right-folding stock, the TRG M10 is produced in .308 Winchester, .300 Win Mag,… Continue reading NYPD Taps Sako for Precision Rifle Needs

Daniel Defense debuted their RIII rail system last year. If you know anything about Daniel, you know that they kind of invented the quad rail game, then matured that concept to the RISII series, the latter developed for SOCOM. The RIII s modeled after the now extensively proven RIS II but runs M-LOK slots which… Continue reading New from Daniel Defense: RIII URGs

With styling similar to the Prohibition-classic Winchester Model 1907, Henry’s Homesteader 9mm carbine was a sleeper hit at SHOT Show, where it soft-launched last month. Officially shipping now, we got to admit this new blowback-action PCC is interesting and Henry uses an innovative magazine well that has adapters to make it work with Glock, SIG… Continue reading More on the Henry Homesteader 9mm PCC

We’ve seen the image floating around social media last weekend. The one about the Romanian-made Simonov 9mm pistol caliber carbines. They look to have SKS-45 style upper halves and a sort of B&T lower and accept B&T mags. While it almost seems like it could be a real thing– the Cugir Factory in Romania did… Continue reading Simonov SKS 9mm PCC?

Besides the new 3-inch Colt Python quietly released late last year by the now-CZ-owned gunmaker ($1499 MSRP, available in stainless only) but finally shipping this month, Lipsey’s also has a very upscale version that features premier-grade engravings by Tyler Gun Works and elkhorn stag grips. The ask on the TGW model is $2,400.  In other… Continue reading Pythons in the News

Arkansas-based Nighthawk Customs, the importer of fine Korth wheel guns from Germany, has a new and very classic take on the large-framed .44 Magnum six-shooter. As an ode to that gruff fictional San Francisco police inspector, the all-new  Korth Callahan model rocks a full 7.5-inch 416R barrel with a vented top rib and carries over-sized… Continue reading Dirty Harry, by Way of Germany

Making effective use of its new Ozark, Missouri facility, Fiocchi USA has been diving into the growing niche that is the 5.7x28mm ammo market and is giving consumers what they want. Besides two personal defense loads debuted at SHOT Show in the caliber (35-grain Hyperformance jacketed frangible and the Hyperformance 40-grain hollow point cartridges) the… Continue reading Fiocchi Stepping up U.S.-loaded 5.7 Ammo, including Subsonics

No matter whether you call it the Gewehr 98, G98, M98, or just the Model 98, Mauser’s iconic bolt-action rifle design was introduced a century and a quarter ago. With something like 10 million copies of the full-sized rifle and its smaller Karabiner 98 carbine cranked out around the world over the years, this firearms… Continue reading Mauser Celebrates 125th Anniversary of the Model 98

Back in 2005, the Civilian Marksmanship Program brought smiles to M1 Garand and M1903 Springfield owners nationwide when they scored a deal to bring in 25 million rounds of military surplus .30-06 ball ammo from Greece, where it had been stockpiled since the 1970s. It took CMP over a decade to sell it all, which… Continue reading CMP Scores Tons of Surplus Military Ammo

Hailing from the Pietro Beretta Selection Custom Atelier in Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, are the exquisite “Italian cities” pair of shotguns. Based on the Beretta SO10 EELL over-and-under series— which start at $130,000 in more pedestrian varieties– the one-of-a-kind Cities masterpieces have to be seen to be believed. The pair are filled with ornate scenes… Continue reading Six-Figure Beretta ‘Italian Cities’ Paired Shotguns

While most states recognize some form of legal recreational or medical marijuana use, it remains unlawful at the federal level and a specific bar to legal gun possession. The ATF’s current Form 4473, used on every over-the-counter gun transfer, even pointedly states that “The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless… Continue reading Judge rules Marijuana User Gun Ban Unconstitutional

While everyone knows Washington-based Aero as a go-to for their AR15/AR10 needs, the company is branching out into a whole new series of bolt-action rifles. Dubbed the Solus, they will use a Remington 700 footprint, carry a sub-MOA guarantee, and be sold as a short action complete rifle system (MSRP $1,600-$1,900), receiver bolt face ($899)… Continue reading Aero Precision moves into bolt rifle waters with Solus

The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, better known as SAAMI, just announced they have accepted three new rifle cartridges for industry standardization. The new trio as detailed by the group: 7mm Precision Rifle Cartridge – The 7mm PRC was introduced by Hornady Manufacturing Co. with a 180-grain bullet traveling at a velocity of 2,950… Continue reading SAAMI Approves 360 Buckhammer, 400 Legend, & 7mm PRC

While the Italian firearms icon debuted several minor tweaks to their shotgun line at SHOT Show last month– as well as the brand new A300 Patrol series of tactical 12 gauges– they kept one under wraps to announce last week at the 2023 Western Hunting and Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah. Running a… Continue reading New: Beretta A300 Ultima Turkey Shotgun in 2 Flavors

Ruger waited until after SHOT Show to announce they have a new model of their Ruger American Rifle chambered for the popular new 7mm Precision Rifle Cartridge.  Dressed in GO Wild camo on a synthetic stock, the newest 7mm PRC in Ruger’s lineup runs a 24-inch cold hammer-forged barrel that uses 5-groove 5R rifling with… Continue reading Ruger Intros New American Rifle in 7PRC

In light of the recent ATF brace ruling– which is set to be published any day– Big Horn Armory has recently removed the stabilizing pistol brace from its AR500 Pistol to comply. Further, they have dropped the prices of their AR pistols by 10 percent for at least the next little while. You can expect… Continue reading Big Horn Drops Braces from their 5.56 Pistols

The 45th annual Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show spanned over four days at The Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum in Las Vegas last week and American Firearms was there, sneaking into all the parties then, bleary-eyed, slow-crawling 13.9 miles of aisles of exhibitors to bring you the best new guns. In a sort of… Continue reading SHOT Show 2023: Best New Guns

Brett Curry, the guy who has designed most of Smith & Wesson’s M&P pistol series innovations in the past 15 years or so, in 2021 filed a patent on behalf of S&W for a gas operated rotary barrel action and pistol. It turns out, on the eve of SHOT Show, that the patent was for… Continue reading SHOT Show News: S&W Debuts a 5.7mm Pistol (M&P 5.7 Anyone?)

Beretta has, true to rumor, released a more budget-minded “tactical” autoloading shotgun than their famed (but $1,500) Model 1301 Tac. The new gun is the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol, which retails for $1,099. A gray 3-inch magnum 12 gauge on a proven action with an 7+1-shot extended magazine tube secured by a custom barrel clamp… Continue reading Beretta announces 80X Cheetah, A300 Patrol Shotgun

Walther introduced Horst Wesp’s P99 pistol in 1997 (nope, not 1999), and it proved a hit with lots of folks on both sides of the Atlantic ever since. The improved second-generation P99AS (Anti Stress) model was introduced around 2004, which included a double-action/single-action stageable trigger with an extremely short reset. Iconically, this included both Pierce… Continue reading The Walther P99AS Final Edition

Brazilian firearms maker Rossi used to turn out a bunch of generally Smith & Wesson pattern revolvers until the company that owned neighboring Brazilian gunmaker Taurus’s bought them out a few years ago, to largely rub out the competition. Well, Rossi is back with a series of stainless steel .357 magnums, including a 3-inch model… Continue reading Taurus (and Rossi) unleash a ton of New Revolvers

In case you have been under a rock for the past few days, the ATF dropped their 293-page final rule on pistol stabilizing braces. The good news is that they dropped the whole ludicrous proposed “Form 4999” point system brought up in last year’s proposed rule. The bad news is they just went ahead and… Continue reading The ATF Goes Bananas on Pistol Braces

Rock Island Armory, part of the Philippine-based Armscor group, is the king of inexpensive but decent 1911s and they have been branching out lately into other models cooked up in-house. Their latest attempt at something fresher than a 112-year-old John Browning design is the RIA 5.0. While at first you would just note that it… Continue reading The Limited Edition, and Very Interesting, RIA 5.0

EAA, a Florida-based outfit that brings in a ton of pistols from overseas– their initials mean European American Armory– has long made its name with a series of 1911s and CZ75 clones made by Tanfoglio in Italy dubbed the Witness. They also import a bunch of Turkish-made guns (the Girsan Beretta 92, Browning Hi-Power clones).… Continue reading EAA Has a $999 2011 Pistol

Hi-Point, king of the pot metal pistol trade, says they are making the most affordable 10mm pistol on the market. Labeled the unimaginative JXP 10, it is the same rough size as its .45 and .40S&W guns (the JHP and JCP) and uses the same 10-round single-stack magazine as their 1095 carbine. It has a… Continue reading Hi-Point is Making a 10mm Pistol

For some reason, firearms makers of late are fascinated by making tacticool lever guns. Maybe it is because Chris Costa keeps posing with them, who knows. Anyway, the latest company to jump on this trend is AR maker POF-USA. Located in Pheonix, they took advantage of the nearby long-running tourist trap and pop culture “I’m… Continue reading New POF-USA Tombstone Lever Gun

For years, everyone was stuck on polymer-framed striker-fired pistols, trying to play the catch-up game against Glock. Now, it seems everyone is turning their polymer-framed pistols into metal-framed guns, just look at the Walther Q4 and Q5, Sig Sauer’s full-metal Alloy XSeries Grip P320 variants, and the new S&W Metal M&P line, all billing the… Continue reading Canik Now has a Steel-Framed Pistol With The SFx Rival-S Series

Taurus surprised a lot of people when they introduced the TX22 pistol a couple of years ago. It was a $300-ish rimfire pistol that offered a threaded barrel, accessory rail, and 16+1 shot capacity– and it actually worked, which is something that a lot of 22s cannot say. For those who wanted the gun to… Continue reading Taurus Shrinks the TX22 With The New TX22 Compact

Nevada gunmaker Oracle Arms plans to make a splash at SHOT Show with a new 2011 (double-stack 9mm SAO 1911 pistol) that– spoiler alert– uses Sig Sauer P320-pattern 21-round magazines. The reason that is a big deal is that, even Sig-marked P320 mags can be found for about $35, which, while not as cheap as… Continue reading A 2011 that uses P320 Mags: Meet the Oracle Arms 2311

Ruger introduced the Multi-Purpose Rifle, or MPR series of AR-15s in 2017 to improve their basic ($500ish) AR556 models. These MPRs, which run in the low-$1,000s, have better Magpul furniture, the company’s decent Elite 452 two-stage trigger, a full-length top Pic rail for optics, and a cold hammer forged threaded barrel with a muzzle brake… Continue reading Ruger, PROOF Research Team up for Light AR

Groucho Marx couched, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member,” and with that in mind, Pennsylvania’s Cabot Guns has released (most) of their picks for the upcoming 2023 Gun of the Month Club Collection. The niche gunmaker, which has done this for the past three years, is the one… Continue reading Want a $110K Turn-Key Bespoke 1911 Collection?

Going well past its final “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver‘” rule that has been two years in the making and needed reams of corrections just before its final release, the ATF just issued another 10 pages of extra clarification of the rule, taking specific umbrage with Polymer80 and Lone Wolf “80 percent” Glock-style frames. In… Continue reading ATF Drops the Hammer on 80% Glock-Style Pistols

Just in time to drop bummers on holiday travelers, the Transportation Security Administration announced two things last week: that it had tallied an all-time high of about 6,600 firearms found in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints thus far in the year, and that it was raising the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation… Continue reading TSA Bumps Fines to $15K for Guns at Airports

Back in 2019, CZ announced they planned to create a crossover blended from the CZ75 platform and John Browning’s 1911 design. A hybrid in the same vein as Ligers, Zorses, and Zonkeys, the gun was to be called the decidedly lyrical “DWX,” borrowing part of those initials from CZ’s Dan Wesson sister company, itself a… Continue reading CZ Wakes Up, Starts Shipping DWX Pistols

Ruger has been making bank on their budget .22LR single-action plinker revolver, the $250-ish Wrangler. They even added a shorter variant with a Birds-head grip last year for those who wanted something a little more compact, for instance for use by hikers, homesteaders with snake issues, or keeping Bigfoot at distance around camp.  Now, Ruger… Continue reading Move Over Wrangler, Ruger Goes Full, Uh, Sheriff?

Savage Arms dates to 1894 in one form or another. Its most recent version broke away from the 800-pound gorilla that is Vista Outdoors– the folks that own Federal, CCI, Speer, and other ammo brands– in 2019 and has since been trying to reinvent itself ever since. Branching out from its bolt-action rifle bread and… Continue reading Savage Goes 1911

In other SHOT Show leaks, it appears that Beretta has been working on a more affordable tactical semi-auto 12 gauge than its well-liked but expensive ($1,300) Model 1301 series shotgun. Lots of well-known names in the shotgun training game have been talking about this mysterious project and most thinking is that the new autoloading Beretta… Continue reading New (Affordable) Beretta Tactical Shotgun?

FN America, which has always had the design and production of the SCAR platform of 5.56 (Light) and 7.62 NATO (Heavy) rifles located here in the states, has finally moved to introduce a pistol variant to the consumer market. Now to be clear, they have made a chopped-down variant of the SCAR-L for the past… Continue reading FN now has a Baby SCAR (Awww)

Springfield Armory, at least in its most recent commercial variant, has from the get-go been in the rifle market, having made the M1A (semi-auto M14) since the 1970s then expanded that via imported HK91 and FAL clones from overseas in the 1980s and 1990. Moving into the AR15 and AR10 space is a new thing… Continue reading New Springfield Armory Saint Victor 9mm PCC

Besides seeming confirmation about the rumors of a Gen 5 Glock 21 in .45 ACP and a similar Gen 5 G22 in .40S&W hitting the shelves in 2023, the Austrian plastic fantastic gunmaker is set to release the G47 to the consumer market as well as deliver their own branded performance trigger pack. Dealer sheets… Continue reading Glock G47 To Hit The Consumer Market, New Glock Trigger Pack

Daniel Horner is– without being smug about it– probably the best multi-gun champion in the world. Since leaving the Army Marksmanship Unit a few years ago, he had been Sig Sauer’s resident champion, cleaning clocks across the globe and leaving everyone else in his events fighting for second place. Sig has already tapped Horner to… Continue reading New Sig Sauer P320-XFive DH3

In the past decade, big gun companies have figured out it’s probably a good idea to have a suppressor concern under their roof. Remington had AAC (and now the brand is owned by Palmetto State Armory, picked up after “Big Green’s bankruptcy sale a couple of years back) and Smith & Wesson bought Gemtech. Meanwhile,… Continue reading FN joins the Quiet Game with Rush 9Ti Line of Suppressors

Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 was shipped from the factory just days after the bespectacled former New York City Police Commish and Assistant Secretary of the Navy had been officially sworn in as a new lieutenant colonel in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in May 1898. Better known as the “Rough… Continue reading Teddy’s S&W Brings Just Shy of $1,000,000 at Auction

The ATF has done a stack of recent changes to the 4473, the “Firearms Transaction Record” that is completed at every over-the-counter transfer done by a federal firearms license holder. While most of the changes are minor, there are a few kind of big ones, at least to some folks. Chief of these is a… Continue reading ATF Releases New 4473 Forms

John Browning designed his .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun round during World War I to punch holes in German tanks and airplanes from a distance. Today, the famed BMG is still getting it done even a century after the Kaiser vacated his throne. After all, 761 grains of lead on a hotdog-sized bullet are no… Continue reading The Noreen ULR Is Your New Favorite .50 Cal BMG Handgun

While we generally just cover firearms, this seemed like too cool of a news item to ignore. Umarex, the German company in the same group as Walther responsible for dozens of .22LR trainer designs, also has an air gun division that makes some toys for big boys. This brings us to their full-auto 1:1 scale… Continue reading Full-Auto Grease Gun, BB Gun Edition

Smith & Wesson is betting that folks like their new metal-framed M&P M2.0 styling enough to use it in a tactical/practical setting with the new Competitor. The 9mm Competitor comes with a 5-inch barrel, has an enhanced sear for lighter, crisper trigger let-off, and includes a flared magazine well for fast and efficient reloads. Lightening… Continue reading New! S&W Competitor

Century Arms has embraced the South Florida vibe 110 percent– their headquarters are in Delray Beach after all– with its new “Signature Series” Canik Mete SFT pistols. These 9mm Turkish delights have been custom outfitted with a very Miami salute in the form of its skyline, flamingos, palm trees, and a retro color scheme familiar… Continue reading Canik Goes Miami Spice

Kentucky’s Anderson Manufacturing, the budget AR guys, have just introduced three new AR modelscomplete with some very old-school T-marked quad-rail foreends that emulate the now-classic chunky Rail Interface System adopted by USSOCOM over two decades ago. Now that Daniel Defense has moved on to their new RIS III system quad, and with lots of guys… Continue reading Anderson Adds Quad Rail Options

In a refreshing change of pace at a time when all the world seems to be fixated on micro 9s, Smith & Wesson just announced three new full-sized M&P M2.0 pistols. All include an optics-cut slide, forward slide serrations, and S&W’s new M2.0 flat-face trigger. The models include a 5-inch FDE in 9mm, a .45… Continue reading S&W Brings 3 New M&P Models to Market

Offering a 416-spec compatible short-stroke piston upper receiver kit that will fit on a standard AR15 lower as well as anything 416, Brownells new BRN-4 series use new barrels, bolt carrier groups, gas pistons, gas blocks, barrel nuts, and other parts with (surplus) factory original HK416 handguards and stripped uppers. They will be offered in… Continue reading Brownells now has an in-house HK416 Upper

Glock introduced their fifth generation pistols in 2017 but in the past half-decade have only announced a dozen models in this new family, all in 9mm and .40S&W. Well, it looks like for 2023 the company will be giving the Gen5 feature set to two classics from the 1990s— the .45 ACP G21 and the… Continue reading Rumor mill: Glock 20, 21 Finally get the Gen5 Treatment?

Sig Sauer’s Oregon-based electro-optics division has been around since just 2014 but in that time has debuted over two dozen different increasingly better Romeo red dots (for both rifles and pistols), Juliett magnifiers, Echo rangefinders, and Whiskey rifle scopes. When it comes to the Romeos, the company just dropped a new version, the Romeo 4XT… Continue reading Sig Sauer Romeo 4, Now in AAA

Announced in the same week, Beretta-owned Swedish-headquartered Norma is launching a $60 million/600-job factory project in Georgia while Italy’s Fiocchi is growing its operations in Arkansas with a $41.5 million/120-job ammo primer plant (which will be just one of six in the country). It is easy to surmise that Americans want bullets and– as overseas… Continue reading Fiocchi, Norma Expand Ammo Ops in the U.S.

Just 30 years ago, lever-action guns were all but dead, with Browning and Mossberg getting out of the market, Winchester only making some limited collector runs of guns in Japan, and Marlin off being Marlin. Since then, Henry has come on the scene, Marlin was bought by Remington and then by Ruger, Mossberg has gotten… Continue reading G-force Has a Huckleberry

Nevada’s Vang Comp has been making shotguns better since the 1990s and their custom 12-gauge service can get you about as close to perfect as it comes to a “combat shotgun.” However, nobody has ever accused them of being cheap. It is easy to go well over the $2K mark on a tricked-out Vang Comp… Continue reading Vang Comp Brings Tidings of Great Combat Shotguns

Well, it turns out that the promised “Red Wave” tsunami of Republican candidates sweeping to office in this month’s mid-term election cycle ran out of steam just shortly past the high tide mark. As the smoke clears a week later, the tabulations across the country leave the U.S. House in the likely very narrow (like… Continue reading After Mid-Terms, Looks Like More of the Same in Gun Politics

Timney has been in the trigger game for almost 80 years and, when a gunmaker elects to sell a tricked-out model of their pistol or rifle complete with a semi-custom trigger, they often just go with Timney right off the bat. While they originally started making triggers for classic bolt guns such as Remington 700s,… Continue reading Timney Gets in the MP5 Trigger Biz

Takedown .22LR rifles are just kinda cool. Minimalist designs that date back to the old Marbles Game Getter reached more widespread adoption by the time of the 1960s Armalite AR-7 and the Marlin 70 Papoose of the 1980s. Today, besides the Mountain View Arms Pack-Rifle, and Volquartsen VT2 Takedown, you can also add Henry’s rebooted… Continue reading Savage Introduces A22 Takedown Rifle

Smith and Wesson introduced the “easy to use” M&P Shield EZ models in 2019. Chambered in .380 ACP and equipped with a special reduced-weight recoil spring that allowed those without a lot of hand strength to better rack the slide, they were handy and compact single-stack pistols that included both a standard rear grip safety… Continue reading Smith & Wesson Gets an Equalizer

Texas-based Staccato just announced the new CS pistol, a 16+1 capacity 9mm single-action 2011-style pistol. While they already have a similar “carry” sized 16+1 round 2011 on the market– the Staccato C2– that pistol runs a more Commander Sized 3.9-inch bull barrel, which sets up the CS to be a more compact gun as it… Continue reading New From Staccato: An Officer-Sized 2011

The true-blue 7.62 NATO FN FAL battle rifle was in production in Belgium from 1953 (when it was born) until 1988 when it was replaced by the smaller and easier-to-handle 5.56 caliber FNC. While it was (and is still) made under license around the world, just something like one out of every seven FALs produced… Continue reading So, FN Found 400 FALs in a Warehouse

Springfield has evidently been calling in requests for new colors to the folks over at HS Product in Croatia because we have been reporting on a slew of fresh Hellcats in Robin’s Egg and Burnt Bronze. Now, they have added a Flat Dark Earth Hellcat Pro to the list as well. Of course, they already… Continue reading Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro, now in FDE

The New Hampshire-based small arms giant has turned its eyes to its direct impingement 5.56 NATO AR-15 beanstalk and shook out a pair of new M400 series rifles. This includes the M400 SDI X-SERIES and M400 Tread Predator 2.0. If the “X-SERIES” sound familiar, Sig uses that name for its optimized P320 pistols that include… Continue reading Sig Sauer Has 2 New M400 Rifles

Showing they are still making at least some pistols, CZ-owned Dan Wesson is marketing a new “Heirloom” series 1911 pistol. The Heirloom 2022 is a full-size Government Issue in .45 ACP and uses all-steel components for the frame, slide, and parts. Running a standard 5-inch barrel, beavertail grip safety, and a commander-style hammer, it sports… Continue reading Dan Wesson Heirloom 2022 1911 (and CZ Lions)

The “poverty pony” has made a name for itself by making black rifles easily obtainable, selling something like 1.3 million AR lowers in the past few years alone. They are now moving into the Glock clone market with a new Gen 3 G19ish 9mm that has a lot of decent features. The Kiger 9c has… Continue reading Anderson Liger, we mean Kiger, Pistols

Springfield is bringing a ton of new SKUs online in the coming days and weeks featuring the 11+1 round capacity Hellcat/Hellcat OSP and 15+1 round Hellcat Pro pistols in Burnt Bronze and Robin’s Egg Blue Cerakote patterns. The asking price, depending on the model, runs from $635-$677. Word is, an FDE Hellcat Pro is also… Continue reading Springfield Hellcat, now in many colors