Front Line Friday #25: Mental Health in Law Enforcement

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial, and the topic is the gap between how law enforcement dies and how the profession talks about dying: more officers end their own lives every year than are killed by suspects, and almost nobody trains for that number. Front Line Friday i...

By Tom R

Black Arrow & Black Spear- History of Anti-Materiel Rifles From Serbia

Last year, when I was working on my book about Zastava AKs , me and fellow TFB writer Lynndon Schooler visited Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Since then, Lynndon has published several comprehensive articles about new Zastava weapons, but there is one more firearm we saw that certainly des...

By Vladimir Onokoy

Concealed Carry Corner: Navigating Unwelcoming Areas

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we talked about how to carry concealed on a motorcycle. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here  to check it out. This week, I want to take a deeper dive into some of the issues we all seem to ...

By Matt E

Remington, Speer, and Federal Drop Summertime Defensive Ammo Rebates

We’re in the middle of summer, it's hot, and yet you’re still carrying your EDC like a champ (good job, pal). But when was the last time you changed out your carry ammo? 5 years ago? Never? This is your sign that you need new hollow-points, and a slew of our favorite companies ha...

By Adam Scepaniak

AllOutdoor Review – Benchmade SOCP Dagger

The Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) is a realistic combatives system created for special operations forces in the military. It concentrates on close-quarters fighting skills that are useful, particularly when wearing all of your gear. Greg Thompson, who founded and developed the SOCP...

By Patrik Orcutt

Tarani: The Hesitation Escalation

You don’t rise to the occasion behind the wheel. You default to your last level of training. Most drivers don’t have one. They have habits, what they saw in a reel, or the assumption nothing bad will happen between ignition and destination. That assumption is where things start to unravel. A ...

By Steve Tarani

POTD: The Springfield Trapdoor Carbine – Custer’s Cavalry Gun

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a carbine that rode into the most studied battle in American history. This is a Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor carbine in .45-70, and this one falls in the serial range issued to the 7th Cavalry. In other words, it’s the type of gun G...

By Sam.S

Wheelgun Wednesday: Good News, Everyone - The Manurhin MR88 Is Back

Founded in the early 20th century, Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, aka Manurhin, has done a lot of things. They made food processing machinery and scooters. But after World War II, like much of reindustrializing Europe, they were keen to try new things, so they started making semi-auto pist...

By Zac K
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