Barrel-life specifications are a familiar sight in government solicitations, technical documents, and manufacturer literature, but what do they actually mean? A barrel rated for a certain number of rounds is not necessarily guaranteed to perform identically throughout that entire service life, an...
Federal's Peak Alloy lead engineer and its rifle product line manager explain where the Peak Alloy came from, the challenges with the 7mm Backcountry introduction, and why 80,000 psi doesn’t mean more recoil or a burned-out barrel The post They Built a Rifle Cartridge That Could Change Hunting ...
WASHINGTON — In a major step toward strengthening national defense and Army energy resilience, the U.S. Army announced today the conditional award of long-term leases to three companies to design, finance, build, and operate commercial power generation on Army installations. By leveraging under...
Rick Sung’s guilty plea closes an eight-year Santa Clara County carry-permit corruption investigation. The case shows what happened when officials treated the right to bear arms as a favor.
HICAR, Hyper-velocity Improved Capability Assault Rifle, is one of the coolest programs in smalls arms development right now. Taking advantage of improved case formation, powder technology, barrel metallurgy, and projectile acceleration knowledge the M4 is getting a tuneup and 5.56 is getting ove...
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...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – The U.S. Army’s Capability Program Executive Intelligence and Spectrum Warfare (CPE ISW) has announced a special notice for vendors. The Rapid Electromagnetic Warfare & Signals Intelligence Commercial Solutions Offering (REWSI) under the Army Open Solicitati...
Wolf Precision , a company from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has developed a really interesting rifle barrel technology called the ACE System, where the chamber and the rifled bore are separate parts screwed into one another. The primary advantage of this interchangeable chamber and bore system is th...
To readers of The Armory Life and many 1911 afficionados, Hilton Yam is going to be a familiar name. In the company of the many great gunsmiths and competitors who have built their professions around the construction or use of 1911 pistols, Yam offers a very unique perspective...