Springfield Armory has been a major player in the U.S. firearms market for more than five decades now. Its initial offering in 1974 was the M1A, a semi-auto version of the famed M14 rifle which is still used by special units in the U.S. military. Then, the company expanded into a line of quality ...
I don’t think anyone would deny that rimfire is equally as valuable as a training cartridge as it is as a recreational one. While tracers are primarily designed for military use, most often in automatic guns, they are neither impossible to find nor illegal to purchase in the civilian world....
“It was scary, you know? The damnedest thing…” The old Marine flicked at a bright yellow tie he was wearing. “We were ordered to take Atabrine to prevent malaria. Most of us did that but it tended to turn our eyes and skin a bright yellow. And then a rumor started that the stuff would Rea...
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . 2026 has flown by, and it is once again time to look at some data from the Thunder Beast Silencer Summit . This is an ev...
For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...
Modern red dots are better than they’ve ever been. They’re tougher, battery life is measured in years, and outright failures are relatively uncommon. Even so, I’ve had more than one optic quit on me over the years. Thankfully it’s always happened on the range rather than d...
For the better part of the last two decades, polymer AR-15 magazines have dominated the market, as most clearly represented by Magpul’s PMAG introduced back in 2007.  Since then, polymer magazines have evolved substantially, and you can now find every capacity, feature, and color you can t...
Editor’s Note: JK Armament provided the 172 PRO-KOR 556K suppressor featured in this article to the author for the purposes of review. The opinions and evaluations expressed here are the author’s own. One of the biggest complaints about suppressors is also one of their greatest streng...
Most weeks that I show up on Wheelgun Wednesday, I am hauling something actually old off the shelf and telling you about it. Today is a little different. The revolver on my bench got built recently; it is just wearing 1875's clothes. Uberti sent me their "Frank" out of the Outlaws ...
Editor’s Note: The content in this article is presented for informational purposes. The article does not replace quality training from a qualified instructor. The Newhall Incident was a formative moment in American law enforcement training. The incident happened in 1970 when four Californi...