Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . 2026 has flown by, and it is once again time to look at some data from the Thunder Beast Silencer Summit . This is an ev...
“In the beginning, there was the Winchester Model 12, and it was very good.” Not quite—Winchester’s Model 12 was not the first pump-action shotgun ever made; they had their own series of pump guns before the Model 12, including the popular Model 1897, and the competition h...
Watching the evolution of red dot sights in the last decade or so is something to behold. There used to be two types of red dots: expensive ones and cheap ones. Aimpoint and Trijicon ruled the high-end market, and everything else was often junk. That’s changed; good red dots are pretty darn che...
Staccato has expanded its lifetime warranty program, shifting coverage from the original owner to the pistol itself. Now every Staccato-built 2011 platform handgun carries warranty protection for its operational life, regardless of how many owners it has had or where it was purchased.
KUIU, a leader in high-performance hunting gear and apparel, is back with the newest addition to its camo lineup, Veros. The fourth pattern for KUIU to date, this is a camo pattern specifically designed for darker hardwoods and late-season timber. Veros has been engineered to give hunters the pa...
For the better part of the last two decades, polymer AR-15 magazines have dominated the market, as most clearly represented by Magpul’s PMAG introduced back in 2007.  Since then, polymer magazines have evolved substantially, and you can now find every capacity, feature, and color you can t...
PROOF Research launched its PXT barrel technology back in May, and last week the company widened the lineup in a big way. The PXT expansion adds a new category of steel competition blanks, more pre-fit options, and fresh caliber choices, pushing the technology onto more platforms than the launch ...
Colorado and Maine waiting-period cases advance, Virginia's assault-weapons challenge is paused while SCOTUS weighs a similar case, and ATF's direct-to-home shipping rule closes its comment window. This week's digest for FFL dealers.
A new Supreme Court brief correctly argues that the AR-15’s militia value strengthens its Second Amendment protection—then undercuts that principle by abandoning machine-gun rights.
The mini thermal market is an interesting one. Who hasn’t seen a thermal on a pistol and thought, oh hey, that’s neat. Of course, they mount to rifles and give you a mini thermal reflex sight. It seems great, but then you start using one, and it’s odd. If you’ve ever trained with a red [&...