Category: Firearm News

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

While we generally just cover firearms, this seemed like too cool of a news item to ignore. Umarex, the German company in the same group as Walther responsible for dozens of .22LR trainer designs, also has an air gun division that makes some toys for big boys. This brings us to their full-auto 1:1 scale… Continue reading Full-Auto Grease Gun, BB Gun Edition

Smith & Wesson is betting that folks like their new metal-framed M&P M2.0 styling enough to use it in a tactical/practical setting with the new Competitor. The 9mm Competitor comes with a 5-inch barrel, has an enhanced sear for lighter, crisper trigger let-off, and includes a flared magazine well for fast and efficient reloads. Lightening… Continue reading New! S&W Competitor

Century Arms has embraced the South Florida vibe 110 percent– their headquarters are in Delray Beach after all– with its new “Signature Series” Canik Mete SFT pistols. These 9mm Turkish delights have been custom outfitted with a very Miami salute in the form of its skyline, flamingos, palm trees, and a retro color scheme familiar… Continue reading Canik Goes Miami Spice

Kentucky’s Anderson Manufacturing, the budget AR guys, have just introduced three new AR modelscomplete with some very old-school T-marked quad-rail foreends that emulate the now-classic chunky Rail Interface System adopted by USSOCOM over two decades ago. Now that Daniel Defense has moved on to their new RIS III system quad, and with lots of guys… Continue reading Anderson Adds Quad Rail Options

In a refreshing change of pace at a time when all the world seems to be fixated on micro 9s, Smith & Wesson just announced three new full-sized M&P M2.0 pistols. All include an optics-cut slide, forward slide serrations, and S&W’s new M2.0 flat-face trigger. The models include a 5-inch FDE in 9mm, a .45… Continue reading S&W Brings 3 New M&P Models to Market

Offering a 416-spec compatible short-stroke piston upper receiver kit that will fit on a standard AR15 lower as well as anything 416, Brownells new BRN-4 series use new barrels, bolt carrier groups, gas pistons, gas blocks, barrel nuts, and other parts with (surplus) factory original HK416 handguards and stripped uppers. They will be offered in… Continue reading Brownells now has an in-house HK416 Upper

Sig Sauer’s Oregon-based electro-optics division has been around since just 2014 but in that time has debuted over two dozen different increasingly better Romeo red dots (for both rifles and pistols), Juliett magnifiers, Echo rangefinders, and Whiskey rifle scopes. When it comes to the Romeos, the company just dropped a new version, the Romeo 4XT… Continue reading Sig Sauer Romeo 4, Now in AAA

Announced in the same week, Beretta-owned Swedish-headquartered Norma is launching a $60 million/600-job factory project in Georgia while Italy’s Fiocchi is growing its operations in Arkansas with a $41.5 million/120-job ammo primer plant (which will be just one of six in the country). It is easy to surmise that Americans want bullets and– as overseas… Continue reading Fiocchi, Norma Expand Ammo Ops in the U.S.