While it’s hyperbolic to say budget shotguns are a dime a dozen, there are a LOT of shotguns targeting the sub-$500 market, with GForce among their legions. These spartan scatterguns won’t set you back much money, they can fail to impress when push comes to shove. I love shotguns of all stripes but haven’t spent… Continue reading GForce GF2P Shotgun Review: A Budget-Friendly Home Defense Option
Month: September 2022
The Major Gun Types: A (Long) Primer
Gun Basics The world of firearms is vast and full of many different types of guns with various actions, functionalities, and a slew of different calibers. With the variety of guns in the world today, there’s something for everyone, which is what I love most about the gun industry. Today we’ll cover the terrain of… Continue reading The Major Gun Types: A (Long) Primer
Beretta has a new 92: The 92X Performance Carry Optic
Beretta has slowly been transitioning everything 92 series related to the new 92X format since it was introduced a couple of years ago. The newest entry in this is an Italian-made 92X Performance model built to comply with the USPSA’s Carry Optic division standards. Logically dubbed the 92X Performance Carry Optic, the new gun is… Continue reading Beretta has a new 92: The 92X Performance Carry Optic
FN Compensates…with the new FN 509 CC
FN USA has a new model FN 509 series gun that competes nicely against Sig Sauer’s new and popular compensated carry guns, namely the P365 Specter Comp and the P365 XMacro. Sort of a shrunken version of the company’s FN 509 LS Edge long slide, the new FN 509 CC (Compensated Carry) Edge one-ups Sig… Continue reading FN Compensates…with the new FN 509 CC
Ruger Goes Small in a Battle Rifle Caliber
Ruger long made an SR-25/AR-10 style 7.62 NATO-chambered rifle, the SR762. However, like most guns in that caliber, it was heavy, pushing almost 9 pounds unloaded and without optics, even with a short 16-inch barrel. Well, the company is back with something much more interesting now in the Small-Frame Autoloading Rifle or SFAR. Introduced in… Continue reading Ruger Goes Small in a Battle Rifle Caliber
James Yaeger has passed
A controversial figure in the firearms industry, James Yeager and his Tennessee-based Tactical Response training school was polarizing to many. Love him or hate him, Yeager announced his fight with ALS earlier this year and it was announced last week that he passed. The news brought tributes and salutes from across the larger gun community… Continue reading James Yaeger has passed
Century Arms WASR-M Review [Hands On]
If you think you’re seeing more and more AK 47 platform rifles around these days, your eyes do not deceive you. The AK has gone from a spooky Cold War-era relic fired into the air at random by guerillas in distant lands to an increasingly Americanized phenomenon. There are certainly more brands importing Turkish and… Continue reading Century Arms WASR-M Review [Hands On]
Taurus (Gently) Stretches the GX4 to Make the GX4xl
Taurus is getting to be about as bad as Sig Sauer when it comes to making very incremental changes to an existing model (look! it’s brown now!). Not content to let its excellent little sleeper micro 9mm GX4 pistol just continue finding its way into people’s hands, the company just released a new and improved… Continue reading Taurus (Gently) Stretches the GX4 to Make the GX4xl
Springfield Armory 1911 Doublestack: Meet the Prodigy
Single-action 1911-format pistols with a double-stack (rather than single-stack) magazine are not a new thing. Heck, it could be argued that’s all the Browning Hi-Power is, just with a few tweaks. Para-Ordnance back in the 1980s and 1990s made a name in the above format long before STI International’s VIP and 5.0 series race guns… Continue reading Springfield Armory 1911 Doublestack: Meet the Prodigy
Ruger Launches 5.7 Carbine series
A couple of years ago, Ruger almost single-handedly breathed new life into the 5.7x28mm caliber by announcing their new Ruger 57 pistol. Until then, the FN-designed round was primarily used in FN’s Five-Seven pistol and P90/PS90 PDW/PCC platforms. Likewise, the only ammo on the market was a few FN-branded loads made by Fiocchi. Skip to… Continue reading Ruger Launches 5.7 Carbine series