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FAB Defense GL-MAG Stock
The GL-MAG buttstock by FAB Defense incorporates an underside magazine carrier well that accepts standard AR mags. The magazine is centered in the stock and doesn’t interfere with positioning the gun...
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Why Does Nobody Make An AR-15 Progressive Buffer Spring?
The guys at Strike Industries have been experimenting with buffer springs. They emailed me asking if I knew why nobody sells progressive buffer springs for the AR-15. I actually have no idea why they...
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LaRue Offers Customers Free “Beater” Barrels While They Wait
A while back LaRue purchased all the necessary equipment to produce their own high-end match barrels. My sources tell me they went to the Machine and Equipment show in Chicago and walked out with over...
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AR-15 KABOOM
A TFB reader was shooting reloaded ammunition at the range when his AR-15 blew apart. The case head failed and the escaping gas split the upper receiver in two and blasted all it components out....
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V7 Weapon Systems: A New Gun Parts Manufacturer
Joel Allen, who was the lead tech at Noveske Rifleworks from when John Noveske founded the company up until, has started his own gun parts manufacturing business called V7 Weapon Systems. From the...
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New H&K Polymer Magazines
H&K USA has just released new polymer 30 round magazines for the AR15/M16 platform: Oddly enough, there is not much competition in the way of transparent M16 pattern magazines. The biggest player...
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Ultra Low Profile Picatinny Sling Attachment Prototype
Strike Industries have just Facebook’ed a photo of their new patented picatinny ultra low profile sling attachment device. It can be mounted on a picatinny rail without getting in the way of anything...
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Crowdfunding has brought us a plethora of new firearm products and parts over the last year or so, from AR-15 upper and lower receivers to gun lock boxes. Well here’s a new product for the AR-15 that’s...
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Warning: Fake Magpul MBUS Pro Sights From China
Magpul’s new all-steel MBUS Pro sights were released fairly recently, yet it seems like knock offs are already making their way from China. Magpul copies are nothing new, fake Magpul PMAGs and polymer...
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MEGA Levels The Competition
I have said this before, that there are a million AR manufacturers out there. Every so often one jumps out at you with an idea that is out of the box. I ran in to the MEGA-ARMS team at the airport on...
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ArmaLite M-15 18″ Tactical Rifle
One of ArmaLite’s new offerings for 2014 is the M-15 18″ Tactical. This rifle is chambered for the 5.56 NATO cartridge and uses an 18″ AISI 416R stainless steel heavy barrel with a 1:8″ twist. This...
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FN Decides to build ARs
Who would have ever guessed that FN would make the leap to manufacturing AR-15 based carbines and rifles? Seems like everybody is jumping on that bandwagon these days. Though they’ve produced the guns...
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Nemo Pratka .300 Win Mag AR
Nemo Arms has a line of high-end and high-priced ARs in .300 Win Mag. This year they’re adding a blue collar working man’s gun to the lineup at a lower price. Mind you, this “lower price” is still...
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Colt SWORD: Bringing Guns, Android Phones and Drones Together
The Colt SWORD (Sniper Weapon & Observer Reconnaissance Devices) Technology Demonstrator connects a variety of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) and MOTS (Military Off-The-Shelf) components together...
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Faxon ARAK-21
Faxon Firearms is showing the new ARAK-21 uppers at the 2014 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. The units are piston AR uppers designed to be used with any milspec lower. The ARAK-21 has a folding charging...
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DPMS Gen II Photos
I recently wrote an article on the new DPMS Gen II .308. The photos were rather small with less detail than I would have liked. I was able to drop by the DPMS booth and obtain some better photos with...
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Something Different: The BCM Vert Grip
Shown is a first shot, an early run without texture, of the unnamed new vertical grip from BCM. There will be a picatinny and KeyMod slot version (shown). The grip uses a more comfortable shape for...
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Gemtech GMT-300 Supersonic Suppressor
Gemtech (Gemini Technologies) out of Eagle, Idaho has released the new G-Core line of suppressors at SHOT Show this year. Gemtech started as a consortium of suppressor designers back in 1993, and has...
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AM-TAC Precision Announces The .416 Hushpuppy
The .416 Hushpuppy, a new proprietary round being offered with a AR upper by AM-TAC Precision was announced at SHOT this year. The concept to the round is claimed to have a maximum point blank range...
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Colt LE6920s
Colt’s LE6920 is the company’s base lightweight law enforcement model. Like so many other products on display at SHOT, it comes in color schemes besides standard tactical black. LE6920MPATAC with...
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