Turret to Trenches: The M240 Machine Gun

Some 650 to 950 rounds per minute. That is the exact mathematical formula required to turn an enemy formation’s fighting spirit into a desperate desire to simply survive. The United States military has spent decades crafting and perfecting this formula and has ensured its fighting men and women...

By Mason Berryman •

Heckler & Koch U.K. Delivers Final 15,600 SA80A3 Rifles to British MOD

The Heckler & Koch UK SA80A3 modernisation programme reaches completion with the delivery of the final 15,600 rifles to the UK Ministry of Defence. The milestone caps an eight-year evolution from initial fielding in 2018, marked by iterative user-driven refinement and domestic manufacturing c...

By Eric B •

Soldier Pushes Limits for Hard-Earned Skippy Badge

It was just before midnight as Private Ryan Doyle quietly prepared his gear for the final test to become a fully fledged rifleman. Clouds smothered what little light the stars could provide, so he watched his breath fog in the air through night optics as he waited. “I was more excited than anyt...

By Eric G •

War Stories: Five Shermans Shot Out From Under Him

I used to love working at the VA hospital. Just like everything Uncle Sam does, the Veterans Administration is bloated, inefficient, and frustrating. However, back when I worked there as a physician we still had a proper crop of World War II veterans who needed inpatient care. That was Candyland ...

By Will Dabbs, MD •

Top 3 Most Deceptive Movie Gun Props

I will start with an example of that: a weapon that I had plenty of experience with - MGPK, a combination of German MG 34 and Soviet PKM. It was created for the largest Soviet movie film studio called Mosfilm.

By Vladimir Onokoy •

The MR07 Mount Returns: Major Kong Industries MisterSeven

Surefire’s long-discontinued MR07 light mount for the 1911 is back, in a manner of speaking. Major Kong Industries is now selling a reproduction model  of this sought-after retro 1911 part. Keep reading for all the details.

By Daniel Y •

Ichord Report: What If Congress Had Let the M16 Die?

“Practically every one of our dead was found with his rifle torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it.” – Excerpt from a letter written by Marine in 1966 to his family after a firefight in Vietnam. Parts of this Marine’s letter was read by Rep. James J. Howard (...

By Robert A. Sadowski •

POTD: The SWD M11/Nine – The Everyman’s Machine Gun, in a Briefcase

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...

By Sam.S •
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