Author: Michael Crites

In other SHOT Show leaks, it appears that Beretta has been working on a more affordable tactical semi-auto 12 gauge than its well-liked but expensive ($1,300) Model 1301 series shotgun. Lots of well-known names in the shotgun training game have been talking about this mysterious project and most thinking is that the new autoloading Beretta… Continue reading New (Affordable) Beretta Tactical Shotgun?

FN America, which has always had the design and production of the SCAR platform of 5.56 (Light) and 7.62 NATO (Heavy) rifles located here in the states, has finally moved to introduce a pistol variant to the consumer market. Now to be clear, they have made a chopped-down variant of the SCAR-L for the past… Continue reading FN now has a Baby SCAR (Awww)

Springfield Armory, at least in its most recent commercial variant, has from the get-go been in the rifle market, having made the M1A (semi-auto M14) since the 1970s then expanded that via imported HK91 and FAL clones from overseas in the 1980s and 1990. Moving into the AR15 and AR10 space is a new thing… Continue reading New Springfield Armory Saint Victor 9mm PCC

Besides seeming confirmation about the rumors of a Gen 5 Glock 21 in .45 ACP and a similar Gen 5 G22 in .40S&W hitting the shelves in 2023, the Austrian plastic fantastic gunmaker is set to release the G47 to the consumer market as well as deliver their own branded performance trigger pack. Dealer sheets… Continue reading Glock G47 To Hit The Consumer Market, New Glock Trigger Pack

Daniel Horner is– without being smug about it– probably the best multi-gun champion in the world. Since leaving the Army Marksmanship Unit a few years ago, he had been Sig Sauer’s resident champion, cleaning clocks across the globe and leaving everyone else in his events fighting for second place. Sig has already tapped Horner to… Continue reading New Sig Sauer P320-XFive DH3

In the past decade, big gun companies have figured out it’s probably a good idea to have a suppressor concern under their roof. Remington had AAC (and now the brand is owned by Palmetto State Armory, picked up after “Big Green’s bankruptcy sale a couple of years back) and Smith & Wesson bought Gemtech. Meanwhile,… Continue reading FN joins the Quiet Game with Rush 9Ti Line of Suppressors

Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 was shipped from the factory just days after the bespectacled former New York City Police Commish and Assistant Secretary of the Navy had been officially sworn in as a new lieutenant colonel in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in May 1898. Better known as the “Rough… Continue reading Teddy’s S&W Brings Just Shy of $1,000,000 at Auction

The ATF has done a stack of recent changes to the 4473, the “Firearms Transaction Record” that is completed at every over-the-counter transfer done by a federal firearms license holder. While most of the changes are minor, there are a few kind of big ones, at least to some folks. Chief of these is a… Continue reading ATF Releases New 4473 Forms

John Browning designed his .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun round during World War I to punch holes in German tanks and airplanes from a distance. Today, the famed BMG is still getting it done even a century after the Kaiser vacated his throne. After all, 761 grains of lead on a hotdog-sized bullet are no… Continue reading The Noreen ULR Is Your New Favorite .50 Cal BMG Handgun