K9 Handler Gear Considerations

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is K9 patrol equipment: the gear that keeps both the handler and the dog alive and working across a career, not a demo. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going ever...

By Tom R •

POTD: Grand Power ARAQ-S - Pop the Hood

Every truck guy knows someone who dropped a Cummins diesel into a Chevy just to see the look on people's faces at the gas station. Grand Power of Slovenská Ľupča, Slovakia, has pulled off the rifle equivalent of that swap. But what is it?

By Eric B •

IWC Launches Foundational Course on Future Threats: Irregular Warfare 120

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) launched a new online course on emerging technologies and gray-zone threats to homeland security. The self-paced class, Irregular Warfare 120: The Future of Conflict, Irregular Warfare, and Homeland Defense, is open to defense practitioners, i...

By Eric G •

Derya Arms Enters the Suppressor Market with the OBone

If you have never shot .22 LR suppressed, you have missed one of the best experiences in shooting. A subsonic rimfire behind a can is genuinely quiet, the whole thing costs very little per round, and new shooters who flinch at a centerfire rifle will happily shoot a suppressed .22 all afternoon. ...

By Eric B •

Holographic Sights for Hunting: Not Useless, Not Ideal

A little while back, Vortex Optics sent over their AMG UH-1 Gen II holographic sight, and it spent its time with me riding on a MAC IX and a Rossi R95 Triple Black lever action. Somewhere between those two guns, a question got stuck in my head. Holographic sights are built for larpers, close-quar...

By Sam.S •

D.C. Magazine-Ban Plaintiffs Ask Full Appeals Court to Revisit Standing Rules

Firearms Policy Coalition and two D.C. gun owners filed an October 15 appeal brief and petition for initial hearing en banc, asking the D.C. Circuit to revisit standing rules and reopen their magazine-ban challenge. The filings seek further proceedings and do not themselves invalidate the law. Th...

By Brandon Curtis •
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