In today’s review, Richard Johnson takes a look at the X3 Driver gunsmithing set from Real Avid. This kit offers the gunsmith or home hobbyist 57 different pieces: bits along with a ratchet and T-handle screwdriver. But is this a quality set or no better than the cheap junk sold by some online ...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is the medical gear an individual patrol officer can carry to extend capability in the minutes before EMS arrives. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going every week.
ATF has expanded the repairs and caliber conversions qualified manufacturers may perform on registered suppressors without creating a new NFA firearm—but strict limits remain.
The argument can be made that the Germans make the world’s best engineers. By way of evidence I would submit the StG44 assault rifle, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Panther tank. While, in each case, the exigencies of around-the-clock bombing certainly took a toll on these revolutionary weapon...
What do you get if you cross a garden tool with a cleaver, and add a wooden handle like those found on a chef’s knife? The answer is CRKT’s Mah-chete (CRKT.com), and you’ll surely get on board fast with its unconventional survival knife attributes. This camp knife boasts an unyielding blade...
Suppressor manufacturers have spent years chasing a tradeoff that additive manufacturing is starting to remedy. Typically, shaving weight off a can also leads to a reduction in its sound suppression capabilities. TENET released its smaller and obviously lighter Limited series around s...
Nothing stirs more of an emotional divide in the 2A community than the bullpup. While there are factual arguments for the practical use of the platform design, the emotional responses are rarely middle ground. The bullpup is a rifle that end users either love or hate; rarely is it undecided.
For CJ and Sydney McMahon, the outdoors is more than an escape from business. It is where ambition gets quiet, perspective gets sharper, and two driven people remember why they are working so hard in the first place. CJ, a popular bowhunter, is also the founder of ATMInvestors.com, a company focu...
Ammunition Depot has 1,000 rounds of Federal Champion 9mm 115-grain FMJ for $239.22 with code LABORDAY6. That works out to roughly 24 cents per round.
Back in May, when NSWC Crane posted the Hypervelocity Improved Capability Assault Rifle (HICAR) solicitation, I closed my article by asking whether any currently available carbine platform was genuinely built to handle sustained fire at 82,000 PSI, or whether every vendor would need a...