Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is the radio hardware nobody issues you: the accessories, the earpiece choices that actually fit your assignment, and the battery discipline that keeps a working radio from turning into a brick at hour ten. Front Line Frid...
“Practically every one of our dead was found with his rifle torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it.” – Excerpt from a letter written by Marine in 1966 to his family after a firefight in Vietnam. Parts of this Marine’s letter was read by Rep. James J. Howard (...
An armed Phoenix resident reportedly intervened during an ongoing knife attack, shooting a man who police say was stabbing two women inside a neighboring apartment.
Lawfully armed Ohio State Fair visitors may carry on the midway, but they cannot enter barns, food halls, concert venues, or other buildings without first returning their firearms to their vehicles.
Smith & Wesson is a household name for many reasons, but something even gun owners might not realize is that they have a military and law enforcement division that is quite popular. To add to that side of their business, they have recently announced an M&P15 SBR (short-barrelled rifle) in...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun that got famous twenty years after it died. This is the Ruger PC4, and if it looks familiar, that’s because Ruger’s wildly popular takedown PC Carbine of recent years is the second act. Almost nobody remembers there was a f...
On a reconnaissance patrol, breaking down the load to reconfigure kit isn’t an option. The FirstSpear IMBREX™ OFFSET RECONNAISSANCE CHEST RIG is a purpose-built, split-front chest rig engineered specifically for the SOF reconnaissance and patrol operator managing simultaneous movement, co...
Photo Of The Day: Norwegian Coast Guard personnel aboard the icebreaker KV Svalbard executed a small arms training exercise (GUNEX) in the Barents Sea in mid-June, qualifying with both the Glock 17 P80 sidearm and the HK416N rifles in the harsh Arctic environment. The photographs capture crew mem...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the rifle that started Remington’s whole bolt-action hunting empire, and it began life as war surplus. This is the Remington Model 30 Express, and its roots run straight back to World War I. When America couldn’t build enough 190...
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, Soldier Systems Digest, you missed this entry form last week. Cold War Concepts The US Army has a long history of small units organized for deep reconnaissance. During the Vietnam War each Division along with a few other units had Long Ra...