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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1808, a rebooted federal “Assault Weapon Ban.” The bill barely made it through in a 217-213 vote with some defections on each side. Not as extreme as some bans passed in a couple of states, it grandfathers guns already in possession but halts the sale, importation,… Continue reading Assault Weapon Ban!

Florida-based KelTec has always been in the same general Cocoa area location since formed in 1991 by Swedish-born firearms maverick George Kellgren after he stepped away from Intratec and Grendel. Still, they’ve done fairly good for themselves, making over 185,000 firearms of all types in 2020 alone in their current 125,000 sq. ft. facility. However,… Continue reading KelTec expanding to Wyoming

Retired Delta Force assaulter Larry Vickers of Vickers Tactical fame let the cat out of the bag last week by posting images of semi-auto G3 and HK33K rifles from Turkey’s MKE that are apparently inbound to the U.S. “My HK buddy James Williamson showed me the MKEK roller locked guns that Century will be importing,”… Continue reading Century bringing in Licensed HK91s, HK93s

As every gun nerd knows, the “BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol” used by Harrison Ford’s Han Solo in George Lucas’s cinematic epic Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a real firearm– a C96 “Broomhandle” Mauser with a bunch of stuff added to it to make it look more sci-fi. Well, the actual gun… Continue reading Solo Blasts Comic Con

Illinois-based Springfield Armory debuted their 16+1 capacity 4.5-inch XD-M Elite series pistols in 10mm earlier in the year but the problem is they are only available in a standard black-on-black scheme. Well, that has changed as Springer now has a variant of the pistol with a slide finished in Magpul’s particular flavor (H-232) of OD… Continue reading New Springfield Armory OD Green XD-M Elite

To paraphrase Ali, grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand, and Nighthawk Custom makes really nice 1911s. The latest to come from the Arkansas-based gunmaker is a collab with Turnbull Restoration dubbed, logically, the Turnbull VIP. Using a high polished and charcoal-blued slide paired with a matching slide stop, magazine release, pins, and thumb… Continue reading New Nighthawk Turnbull VIP

Billed as being able to fit any pistol with an M1913 Picatinny style accessory rail, the Accelerator from Tandemkross promises a universal thumb ledge to help with accuracy, especially in rapid fire. The reason this is important is that other “gas pedal” style ledges often require permanent modifications to the handgun or replace the takedown… Continue reading New Tandemkross Accelerator

Gun companies sometimes go big when it comes to flagship stores such as the super high-dollar Beretta Galleries, a series of eight outlets around the globe where one could buy a bespoke Italian rifle, shotgun, or pistol with a five-digit price point. Well, Sig Sauer has taken a page from that book and last week… Continue reading Sig Opens ‘Experience Center’

Kentucky-based Anderson Manufacturing, whose racehorse logo adorns the sides of their components and firearms, produced an amazing 439,559 “miscellaneous firearms” in 2020, more than anyone else in that category. For reference, those figures come from the ATF’s recently released Annual Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report (AFMER), which is always a year behind to protect industry… Continue reading The Poverty Pony runs away with the AMFER race

The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System ticked past the 2.5 million mark for last month, June 2022, which sounds like a lot because it is a lot. However, those numbers are down a little from June 2021 (3 million) and a lot from June 2020 (3.9 million) which would point to gun sales cooling… Continue reading NICS Numbers Fall, But Also Rise