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One of the first calibers to bounce back after the Great Ammo Shortage of 2020 was 62-grain M855 “Green tip” 5.56 NATO. The reason for this is that literal truckloads of it come from the U.S. Army’s Ammo Plant in Lake City, Missouri, which is sold surplus on the commercial market by Winchester, who runs… Continue reading Big 5.56 Ammo Supply Crunch (Maybe)

Palmetto State Armory has been busy doing R&D on their new and very curious JAKL series of 5.56 AK/AR hybrids. We caught up with them at the NRA Show in Houston and found the platform to be novel.

Because optics are everything these days, FN has finally introduced a version of their Five-Seven pistol that is MRD compatible, unimaginatively dubbed the FN Five-Seven MRD.

Springfield Armory keeps banging the drum of their oldest product because, like Ruger and the Mini-14, the Springfield M1A just kind of never goes out of style.

Arkansas-based Nighthawk Customs, besides making bespoke 1911s of their own, imports a lot of exotic hardware from Europe. They just announced they are bringing in a shipment of Korth’s new NXR Hunter models in .44 Mag.

Turnbull just announced a series of mounts for the Trijicon RMR/SRO pattern, allowing users to throw an Ade Stingray, Holosun 407/507, Swampfox Kingslayer/Liberty/Justice, et. al. on their Winchester.

The latest NICS figures from the FBI say that last month a stout 2.3 million background checks were performed by the platform. Of course, those checks come from a lot of sources, but the National Shooting Sports Foundation sifted through the codes and found that over 1.1 million were likely for the retail sale of… Continue reading Gun Sales Still Booming

In what looks kind of like a disagreement between FN America and FN Herstal (i.e., Belgian FN), the latter debuted the new 15+1 capacity 9mm FN HiPer last week. The new gun is about the same size as the FN 509 Midsize which is made in the U.S. and is a little smaller than the… Continue reading FN Herstal Announces New HiPer pistol

CZ-USA this week announced two new models of the CZ 457 bolt-action rimfire rifle oriented to left-hand users. The two new variants are a .22LR LH Varmint with a 20-inch heavy-profile barrel and an LH American model with a 24-inch light-profile barrel in either .22WMR or .22LR. Besides a 60-degree bolt and push-to-fire safety located… Continue reading CZ Goes Lefty for 457 Series

While the NRA has its well-deserved cross to bear when it comes to being a lightning rod both among anti-gun types and many gun enthusiasts on the other side of the aisle, the group’s politics and practices aside, its recent Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Houston, aka “The NRA Convention/Show” had a lot of new… Continue reading From the NRAAM 2022 Show Floor