New POF-USA Tombstone Lever Gun

POF-USA TOMBSTONE LEVER GUN

For some reason, firearms makers of late are fascinated by making tacticool lever guns. Maybe it is because Chris Costa keeps posing with them, who knows. Anyway, the latest company to jump on this trend is AR maker POF-USA. Located in Pheonix, they took advantage of the nearby long-running tourist trap and pop culture “I’m… Continue reading New POF-USA Tombstone Lever Gun

Canik Now has a Steel-Framed Pistol With The SFx Rival-S Series

For years, everyone was stuck on polymer-framed striker-fired pistols, trying to play the catch-up game against Glock. Now, it seems everyone is turning their polymer-framed pistols into metal-framed guns, just look at the Walther Q4 and Q5, Sig Sauer’s full-metal Alloy XSeries Grip P320 variants, and the new S&W Metal M&P line, all billing the… Continue reading Canik Now has a Steel-Framed Pistol With The SFx Rival-S Series

FN 5.7 Review: The Future Is Now

FN 5.7 Review

The FN Five-seveN pistol helped usher in the 5.7x28mm round it is named after and, now in its third generation, has benefited from a series of upgrades that have brought it into the 2020s with ease. We look at this icon from the last days of the Cold War and weigh the new MK3 MRD… Continue reading FN 5.7 Review: The Future Is Now

Ruger, PROOF Research Team up for Light AR

Ruger introduced the Multi-Purpose Rifle, or MPR series of AR-15s in 2017 to improve their basic ($500ish) AR556 models. These MPRs, which run in the low-$1,000s, have better Magpul furniture, the company’s decent Elite 452 two-stage trigger, a full-length top Pic rail for optics, and a cold hammer forged threaded barrel with a muzzle brake… Continue reading Ruger, PROOF Research Team up for Light AR

ATF Drops the Hammer on 80% Glock-Style Pistols

Going well past its final “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver‘” rule that has been two years in the making and needed reams of corrections just before its final release, the ATF just issued another 10 pages of extra clarification of the rule, taking specific umbrage with Polymer80 and Lone Wolf “80 percent” Glock-style frames. In… Continue reading ATF Drops the Hammer on 80% Glock-Style Pistols

TSA Bumps Fines to $15K for Guns at Airports

Just in time to drop bummers on holiday travelers, the Transportation Security Administration announced two things last week: that it had tallied an all-time high of about 6,600 firearms found in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints thus far in the year, and that it was raising the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation… Continue reading TSA Bumps Fines to $15K for Guns at Airports

Savage Goes 1911

Savage Arms dates to 1894 in one form or another. Its most recent version broke away from the 800-pound gorilla that is Vista Outdoors– the folks that own Federal, CCI, Speer, and other ammo brands– in 2019 and has since been trying to reinvent itself ever since. Branching out from its bolt-action rifle bread and… Continue reading Savage Goes 1911