Recoil

Way back last century when I moved to the U.S., the prevailing wisdom among firearms aficionados was that you never wanted to invite “The Man” into your life. According to popular lore, owning NFA items virtually guaranteed the midnight knock, follow

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is arguably most famous — even infamous to some — for being home to the U.S. Military Corrections Complex, but that’s really just one small facet of this army installation, dating back to 1827. In fact, the prison, consistin

MIL-SPEC AUTOMOTIVE HUMMER H1 6.6L LBZ DURAMAX ALLISON 1000 TRANSMISSION WWW.MILSPECAUTO.COM Think about the various flare-ups in the automotive industry you’ve lived through. Many vehicles debut to great fanfare, but their flame is often extinguishe

The Mk18 is as iconic as it gets when it comes to SBRs. This is what we think the Mk18’s punk-ass little half-brother would turn out like if its NSWC Crane papa stepped out and knocked up a young mistress. The Mk18’s developmental roots go back to th

At the 2019 NRA Annual Meeting (NRAAM) in Indianapolis, we presented awards for the best or most interesting new products we saw at the show. Since all of these products are brand-new, these awards shouldn’t be construed as endorsements — though as w

Grandpa owned a Leupold, and so did dad. Leupold has been around for decades, but they stepped up their game big-time last year with the Mark 5HD line. The Mark 5HDs made the company relevant to the demands of precision and long-range shooting by emb

While the term Virtus dates at least 600 years before the birth of Christ as a way of describing the virtues of Rome’s fighting men, it feels like it took the 7.62 x 39mm version of SIG’s namesake MCX Virtus nearly as long to reach the market. But, i

The monster that became the so-called “Islamic State” came to an end in an obscure Syrian town that might be lucky to show up on a printed map of the region. Baghuz is one of the southernmost towns in Deir ez-Zor province, mere kilometers from the Ir

The CMR30 is available to civilians, and for good reason. We all know that’s technology that all red-blooded Americans should always be able to get their hands on. F@ck sporting purposes. Even if Heckler & Koch didn’t hate you and think you suck, own

In early February of 2018, the headquarters of U.S.-backed Syrian Defense Forces — and their embedded U.S. advisors — came under heavy attack by a force of the Syrian Regime. U.S. forces successfully repelled the attack using a full suite of air supp

With the focus of this issue being on short-barreled-everything, we figured it only appropriate to spend a little time talking about the legal process to obtain your very own not-so-long gun. Despite the undisputed sex appeal of SBRs, the extraneous

If you Form 1 an NFA item, disregard whatever purported “truth” a low-information trash weblog told you and listen to what we’ve heard directly from the BATFE: You have to mark any personally manufactured NFA item. The BATFE has gotten so many questi

Everyone had high hopes when Remington/Bushmaster announced the Adaptive Combat Rifle. It was a carbine that was the embodiment of everything the consumer should’ve wanted, according to current thinking — and yet somehow, it was met with a collective

This is an argument that has been in the gun community nowhere near as long as .45ACP versus 9mm or AR versus AK, but it’s been just as passionate. Plastic against wood? Nay nay, short-barreled rifles versus bullpups. Even among our editorial staff t

Let’s face it: Integral silencers are cool as hell. Who doesn’t want an OSS HD-Military, the (mostly) silent pistol used to dispatch Nazi officers? No real Americans, that’s for sure. But are they worth it? Many different integrals have graced the pa

It’s interesting to observe what garners attention within firearms development … and what doesn’t. Flashback to 1957 — the design of the rifle hadn’t changed much for a century. Certainly, technology has advanced, with the percussion ignition-rifled

It’s hard to find a person with a neutral opinion of Erik Prince. To some, he’s the epitome of the hard-charging capitalist, finding solutions to problems where big government failed miserably. To others, he’s a war profiteer, single-handedly respons

There’s an old joke that states, “If you spot troops, but you cannot identify them, fire a round in their general direction. If you receive massive volumes of machinegun fire in return, they’re German. If there’s a pause for a few minutes and you’re