Category: Weapons Education

It makes you wonder how many other organizations are going to follow suit. The Military Times writes INDIANAPOLIS ― The Department of Homeland Security plans to get rid of all its 7.62mm NATO, or .308 caliber, long-range rifle ammunition and replace it with an intermediate caliber that Special Operations snipers will field next year — the 6.5mm Creedmoor. Speaking Monday during […]

Great little bit of advice! GunDigest writes You can still practice the majority of your draw stroke even at ranges that don’t allow you pull from your holster. You needn’t be a High Master marksman to figure out the shooting range isn’t real life. In some terms, it’s about as far away from practical shooting as “Call […]

The US PATENT and Trademark Office awarded multiple patents to Franklin armory. Gotta wonder how this is going to affect the Binary Market. Franklin Armory Writes   Minden, NV, 1BApril 27, 2018 – On April 24th, 2018, the US Patent and Trademark Office awarded two patents to Franklin Armory® for their innovative Binary Firing System™. […]

CMMG is on a roll with their release of yet another new product! GunDigest writes The lightest and smallest short-barreled rifles and AR pistols CMMG offers, the Banshee line is fightingly nimble. What the compact Banshee line brings to the game: The Banshee line is composed of short-barreled rifles and AR pistols. As expected, the […]

A scenario where you might need a pistol can happen anywhere and its better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it! GunDigest writes Some might have reservations about carrying a gun to church. But a self-defense scenario can play out anywhere, even a house of worship. Going […]

Ive been a fan of the Honey Badger since the AAC days. The FirearmBlog writes Since its humble beginnings as a garage workshop invention, the pistol stabilizing brace (PSB) has gone through a few generations worth of changes, upgrades and advancements. Some iterations were strictly functional, focusing on comfort over aesthetics. However, recent models have evolved into braces that are nearly […]

Floridas new laws are already in effect. Lets see how it goes. Fox News Reports Florida deputies confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran on Thursday, and the seizure was the first of its kind under the state’s new gun control law enacted following the Parkland school shooting. Jerron Smith, 31, of Deerfield […]

I wonder how it will stack up against the ever so popular creedmoor? Guns.com writes CMMG rolls out an all-new rifle, the MkW ANVIL XLR2, chamebred in the power-packing 6.5 Grendel. Offering a 22-inch medium tapered barrel, the mid-sized AR pushes the 6.5 Grendel round out to 800 yards. Utilizing the ANVIL’s Powerbolt design, created by […]

The FirearmsBlog writes Cobalt Kinetics has some interesting news for us. The new model Twenty-Seven offers a modern approach to a traditional semi-automatic rifle. Target customers are most likely people living in areas where features like pistol grips are forbidden, hunters of small to medium game and competitive shooters that may live in restricted areas. You canconfigure your Model 27 and it’s”legalness” when ordering. The lower receiver is unique, and the stock allows length […]

Who here has used this target? Kind of interesting to hear the backstory on its creation! The FirearmBlog Writes In June of last year, we published a short post on the odd story behind the current Diplomatic SecurityService’s qualification target known as the DSQ-1A, or colloquially as an “Izzy” target. The long and short of it was that the figure holding an AKMS in […]