V6N3
Industry News: Volume 6, Number 3
ATF Import Permits Officially Changed to 2-Year Period of Validity On February 7, 2014, ATF announced via the Federal Register...
Read moreDetailsMachine Guns of WWI: SADJ Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of World War I
ABOVE: Germans with Maxim MG08. Judging from their cloth-covered spiked helmets, this apparently posed photo was taken early in the...
Read moreDetailsSchleTek Gun Care Products
SchleTek, a German chemical company operating throughout Europe, has recently offered a line of premium gun care products. Our evaluation...
Read moreDetailsBRIDEX 2013
The fourth biannual BRIDEX (pronounced Brih-dex) exhibition was another marked success for this small South East Asian nation on the...
Read moreDetailsSpace Age Weaponry’s D-CAT: Deployable Compact Armorer’s Tool
Throughout the industry there are numerous combination tools for the AR-15/M16-series rifle. Most of them are not what you would...
Read moreDetailsFeeding the Black Rifle: A Close Look at Current Magazines
The key to reliability with any auto loading firearm is the feeding device whether it is a magazine, clip, belt...
Read moreDetailsHonoring Herbie Woodend, Ten Years Later
A large group of friends and family gathered today at the front of the old MOD Pattern Room at Enfield...
Read moreDetailsROMARM Small Arms Factories
During its history, Romania was occupied by Turks, Austrians, Greeks and Russians. The principality of Moldavia and Walachia were acquired...
Read moreDetailsMILPOL 2013
The 18th Worldwide Exhibition of Internal Security was held in Paris from November 19 to 22, 2013. There were 915...
Read moreDetailsThe Armalite AR-31
It is nice to see a product evolve over time. The ArmaLite AR-31 .308 Win rifle is a great case...
Read moreDetailsThe SIG Sauer P229
In January of 1990 a new cartridge hit the market that would pretty much be a game changer as to...
Read moreDetailsK12 South Korean Light Machine Gun
From 1990 to very recently, the ROK (Republic of Korea; or South Korea) army had a tendency to reduce the...
Read moreDetailsDSEI 2013
The Defence Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2013 exhibition was held in the London Docklands ExCeL Exhibition Centre on September 10-13,...
Read moreDetailsGlock Generations: Detail and Feature Evolution
According to company literature, the first Glock pistols imported into the U.S. came in January of 1986. These guns had...
Read moreDetailsWeapons Lab: Small Arms Development at USALWL
After the end of the Second World War, the United States military, the Army especially, saw its mission as one...
Read moreDetailsWeapons of Croatian Forces in Chad
Since it gained independence, Chad has been shaken by numerous armed risings, invasions of the neighboring military, conflicts regarding borders...
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