Editorials

A Bolt-Action Variant for Every Use and Taste By Oleg Volk The Mossberg MVP line of rifles was introduced in 2012....

New Iranian Shoulder-Fired Multipurpose Weapon Exhibited By Yuri Lyamin On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution...

Ernest Langdon’s 3-Day Advanced Pistol Skills Class By Alton P. Chiu Since attending the analytically driven 2-Day Tactical Pistols Skills...

The 40mm Day/Night/Thermal Program By Jay Bell Sometimes what appears to be a good idea is not as good as...

CS/LS06 “Chang Feng” Submachine Gun By N.R. Jenzen-Jones The Chang Feng submachine gun (SMG)—known in its latest iteration as the...

Advance Weapons Technology Offers 1,000-Yard Class By John Bibby I have been very interested in long-range shooting for quite some...

Expodefensa: A Hub Linking North and South America By Julio A. Montes Expodefensa was held for the first time in...

The Czech assault rifle officially named “7.62mm Samopal vz. 58” (7.62mm model 58 submachine gun) has recently celebrated 60 years...

By Kristóf Nagy Introduction The Hungarian-developed and -produced 42M hand grenade and the later 42/48M variant became the primary weapon...

Cold War Conflicts and ‘Brushfire Wars’ 1970s–1980s By Robert Bruce In the course of decades of researching various sources including...

ATN CORP ThOR 4  The ThOR 4 is ATN’s flagship thermal rifle scope for hunting. Packed with upgrades and new...

Rheinmetall Canada Chooses ELSAT-2100 Elbit Systems Ltd. to Supply Satellite On-the-Move Systems to Canadian Armed Forces Elbit Systems Ltd. announced...

How Multiple Machine Gun Mounts Shaped Wars in Latin America By Julio A. Montes As they overflew the Swan Islands,...

Companies Vie for Semi-Auto Pistol and Sniper Rifle Contracts By Jean Huon  Via a message dated January 6, 2020, the...

By Linda M. Gilbertson Sometimes it is best to train in shooting alone. It allows you to focus on what...

Faithful readers of this column are well aware of the on-going efforts to modernize and streamline the current procedures for...

In the course of decades of research in various military and museum archives, Robert Bruce has acquired a treasure trove...

THE PORTUGUESE ARMY FINDS COMBAT COMFORT IN FN SCAR The Portuguese Army, after decades of struggling to get a new...

Turning a barrel, circa 1943. Variables, Tolerances and Economics All too often, someone buys a firearm because someone else already...

Model 1890 Colt Gatling gun on typical infantry wheeled field carriage. (Courtesy Rock Island Auction Company) State-of-the-Art Weaponary Machine guns...

MEL CARPENTERA few Dardick Trounds. It’s just not right. Someone should do something to stop the bullying. The U.S. government...

Military optics have matured quite a great deal in the 100 years since the First World War. While military optics...

Adjustable length dual struts with Gear Head Tailhook braces. The Stribog SP9A1 9mm submachine gun and its carbine and pistol...

  TRUE VELOCITY INC. True Velocity's ammunition is over 30% lighter than conventional brass rounds. TV's proprietary design innovations reduce...

Perhaps one of the more elusive Dragunov clones in recent small arms history, the 7.62x54mmR Al-Kadesiah precision rifle is one...

According to its press release, in 2020 the U.S. Army plans to have soldiers fire at targets using remote-controlled robotic vehicles as...

It is no secret that Eugene Stoner’s AR platform is the bestselling rifle in the U.S. with numerous manufacturers jumping...

Mistakes happen. Although one may try to minimize the chance of an error, human nature, miscommunication and plain ignorance can...

There has been a resounding boom in popularity of suppressors in recent years. They have become less the stuff of...

By Lynndon Schooler The beginning For a brief 200-year period, the Pecheneg Khanate sprawled from Southern Trans-Carpathia across the Dnieper...

By Christopher M. Rance The red rim of the sun pushes itself over the distant horizon, as a brown haze...

The ASM Materials Education Foundation By Dan Shea I’m writing this in the first person for a reason; I want...

For a long time, Serbia was a part of the Ottoman Empire; it became self-governed in 1830 but obtained independence...

The FightLite Mission Configurable (MCR) is a belt-fed upper receiver assembly designed for use on AR-15, M16 and M4 rifles....

By Lynndon Schooler With the Bolshevik victory in 1922 bringing the cold and bloody Russian Civil War to a close,...

The NFA world is a difficult one (dealing with Title II firearms). The landmines in regulations are frequent; seemingly common...

Photo credit: Ian McCollum/Forgotten Weapons Craft-produced Pakistani AK-style bolt-action rifle. A Frankengun in Every Way By Jonathan Ferguson Photo credit:...

By David Pazdera Between September 10 and 12, 2018, Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod held the third Meeting of Professional Journalists....

Pathway to the Kalashnikov’s Future Development By Lynndon Schooler Vladimir Zlobin, the former director of the AK-12 project, can be...

On April 8, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly approved an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) text crafted in two negotiations...

The Defense Small Arms Advisory Council (DSAAC) was formed as a non-profit organization in 2004 to represent the interests of...

As today’s computing power increases at an exponential rate, so does directed energy technology – a close relative.  Most think...

Do we need a new service rifle cartridge?  Another way of asking this question is “Is there a problem with...

The conflict in Afghanistan, with its emphasis on targeting specific enemy individuals while avoiding collateral damage, features the use of...

To answer this question with a short answer, it is: No!  This article will discuss the benefits of the 5.56mm...

When I answered the phone, I could sense the frustration in his voice. The caller was a friend of mine...

After two and a half years, the U.S. Department of Justice culminated a major bribery investigation by arresting 22 individuals...

I sat quietly taking notes as the Purchase Description was being reviewed, making sure I would capture the important points.  The...

By the summer of 1918 he was nearing his 65th birthday and might have been thinking about retirement, or at...

It is necessary to clearly differentiate between infantry antitank weapon systems that are rockets, and those that are recoilless guns. ...

Last August, the Office of the Secretary of the Army announced a 2009 project to assess the current state of...

It’s been a wild ride being a part of the U.S. firearms industry over the last forty years. I have...