POTD: The Winchester G30M – Beating the Garand, Almost

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester’s attempt to build a better Garand. It failed, and in failing it handed us the M1 Carbine, so I would call that a fair trade. Winchester bought Ed Browning’s self-loading patents before he died in 1939. By 1938 the com...

By Sam.S •

TFB Behind the Gun #233: Keeping Britain's Guns Alive in America

On today's episode of TFB's Behind the Gun Podcast, I'm happy to welcome Evan Murdoch , founder of Murdoch & Co , the only company building a true-to-spec, stamped-receiver semi-auto version of Britain's SA80 service rifle here in the United States. Today we'll dig in...

By Luke C. •

POTD: Lobaev Arms’ SKL ZOV - The Russian HK417?

Photo Of The Day, and we go to Russia to see what’s going on at Lobaev Arms. I could be wrong, but their approach to the AR-10 platform reads like applied study notes from the HK417. Rather than using the AR's direct impingement system, Lobaev engineered an improved gas piston des...

By Eric B •

Springfield Debuts Model 2020 Waypoints with Cerakote SG-100 Coating

Springfield Armory is always looking to incrementally innovate and improve even the best of products, and that is glaringly apparent when it comes to this latest announcement that they are now utilizing a Cerakote SG-100 Coating on several of their Model 2020 Waypoint rifles. This will include th...

By Adam Scepaniak •

AO Review: Hornady VEXIS Night Guard – Be the Key to your Security

Something that firearm owners likely don’t ponder is the history of safes; what keeps our valuables protected. Over time, the term safe could be viewed pretty loosely. From hiding money under your mattress, placing it in a treasure chest and burying it like a swashbuckling pirate, having it...

By Adam Scepaniak •

POTD: Ed Browning 30-06 Prototype – The Other Browning Brother

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rifle from the Browning nobody talks about. Jonathan Edmund “Ed” Browning was John Moses Browning’s half brother and spent roughly fifty years as the model maker at the family shop in Ogden. Everybody knows JMB. Nobody kn...

By Sam.S •
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