Springfield Echelon 4.5F Chosen by St. Louis County Police Department

Springfield Armory has announced that the St. Louis County Police Department has adopted the Echelon 4.5F 9mm pistol  as its new duty sidearm. The Echelon series was developed as a modern, striker-fired platform with a focus on modularity, ergonomics and durability. At the core of the design...

By Eric B

PENN’s NEW Jumbo Baitcaster – Fathom 500 Low Profile Reel

PENN is here with the newest addition to their Fathom line of low-profile reels, with the new Fathom 500 jumbo-sized baitcaster. Continuing their goal of making fishing gear with uncompromising power and control, this new Fathom reel packs precision-engineering and rugged gearing into a compact p...

By Eugene L.

Grundéns Releases Spring/Summer Collection to Celebrate 100 Years

Grundéns, makers of some of the world’s finest foul-weather gear, including the iconic Hercules Bib, is here to celebrate 100 years of performance fishing gear with the new 2026 Spring/Summer Lineup. Continuing to deliver uncompromising performance in all their gear for their centennial ...

By Eugene L.

A Student's Vision of The New Generation of Russian Light Machine Gun

A recent post by Kalashnikov.ru  shed light on the work of a young engineering student on a proposed light machine gun design. It was an interesting design recently submitted at the M. T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU), where the annual exchange between academic traini...

By Lynndon Schooler

Army Testing Shorter, Lighter XM8 Carbine (Revised)

The XM8 ships with a 25-round magazine. Twenty-round mags from the M7 remain compatible. That directly addresses one of the louder complaints in Army Capt. Braden Trent's May 2025 assessment of the M7, which called the 20-round capacity a liability. As TFB covered when the Army type-classifi...

By Josh C
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