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Kraut Space Magic, as the meme goes, gave us the famed HK G11 rifle. The G11 was too Space-Age for the time and remains to this day. Even HK recently acknowledged the joke with a collectible hat featuring an astronaut armed with a G11. The space-magic clock of death tried its hardest to become a […]
World War II changed how wars were fought as it was a fast-moving war involving modern tactics. As a result, World War II saw the advent of several different weapons. These include the first assault rifle, a Wonder 9 pistol, light support weapons, and even the first general-purpose machine gun. However, even in the face […]
KelTec goes far and wide in their gun designs. They rarely make something in the boring or normal category, and the KS7 is a testament to that. KelTec got into the shotgun game with the KSG. The KSG is a bullpup shotgun that utilizes a dual-tube design that offers double the capacity of most normal […]
You can say a lot about Knight’s Armament. Their products are super high-quality weapons that set the standard in the AR market. You can say they don’t produce enough SR-16 rifles making it tough to get one at the MSRP price point. What you can’t say, though, is that the company isn’t creative. Knight’s Armament […]
KelTec CNC Industries INC. or simply KelTec is the American dream. It’s a small American business founded by an immigrant that’s grown to be quite successful. KelTec produces a wide variety of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. What makes Keltec stand out is its out-of-the-box designs. Whenever they bring something to life, it’s rarely normal. George […]
That bullpups are the rifle of the future and they always will be is a joke you often hear when discussing the concept. Bullpup is a term used to refer to a weapon in which the action and magazine are rearward of the trigger. Although bullpup rifles are often associated with the future, they’ve been […]
The Mossberg Shockwave might be one of the most disruptive guns of the last decade. Mossberg is mostly known as that shotgun company. Their name has been long associated with sporting and tactical shotguns. Mossberg 500s occupy deer stands and duck blinds across the country, and the 590A1 is the military shotgun of choice. However, […]
The Modular Handgun System (MHS) competition began way back in 2015, but it feels like it was last week. The Beretta M9 served for over 30 years as America’s sidearm, but many of the guns were ending their service life. As such, the military could order more M9s, or it could begin looking at a […]
There isn’t much true innovation in the gun world. This isn’t the fault of gun makers; it’s just due to a slight stall in technology. Ultimately, until we discover something crazy, like caseless ammo, laser beams, or something similar, the tech will largely remain the same. Every so often, however, something finds a way to […]
World War I seemingly caught everyone by surprise. No one seemed to have enough rifles when the war came knocking. Prior to the United States’ entry into the war, America was producing rifles for the British and then took a contract from Imperial Russia. Remington Arms and New England Westinghouse accepted the contracts to produce […]