This limited-production upper receiver from Foxtrot Mike comes built with the bare necessities for an AR-15 pattern upper receiver that will spend most of its life shooting with a suppressor. This includes a longer, rifle-length gas tube with a gas port sized to reduce back pressure and recoil when shooting with a suppressor. To keep costs down, Foxtrot Mike is ...

Extracting with a full moon clip is fast and easy. Extraction without one is iffy at best—and impossible in some cases, depending on design. While magazines are flat and easily carried, the moon clip is bulky and easily bent if not stored safely. It’s also easier to hang up on pockets and pouches than a pistol magazine. What do you ...

ZeroTech Optics just added a new first-focal-plane LPVO to its catalog, the new Trace ED 1-10×24 FFP. This new LPVO (low-power, variable optic) is built around a 6061 aluminum 34mm maintube and includes all of the features shooters expect in a high-end LPVO, including ED optical glass, but for a fraction of the price. In addition to the new ZeroTech ...

In some ways, Springfield Armory’s 9mm Hellcat is quickly becoming the elder statesman of the micro-compact category. At its introduction in 2019, the pistol achieved a lot of firsts, including leading its category with 11+1 capacity as well as being the first Springfield pistol launched with a day-one optic-ready model. Springfield’s micro-compact Hellcat RDP 9mm is designed for concealed carriers ...

I spent some time working for a company that sold huge numbers of firearms via sites like Gunbroker and other online retailers. Part of this operation was taking photos of all the new guns that would come in so they could add them to each listing, and they had that process down to a science. Long before I worked at ...

The most important thing to keep in mind when considering KelTec’s new PR57 pistol is that the cartridge for which it is chambered, 5.7x28mm, originally started life as a one-trick pony, and that trick did not involve handguns intended for concealed carry. It was not designed for expanding bullets, handguns or even semi-automatic fire, really. Its literal raison d’être was ...

Trijicon, Inc. is releasing a 3.25 MOA green dot version of the popular RMR Type 2 Adjustable LED reflex sight. The Trijicon RMR (Ruggedized Miniature Reflex) is well-regarded for its ability to provide fast, both-eyes-open target acquisition, accurate aiming and proven reliability on a wide variety of firearms platforms. The Trijicon RMR in made in the USA and has been ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded FN America an additional $6.9 million contract for M240 and M249 machine gun barrels. The agreement specifies nine U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime deliveries. “The contract to provide these barrels for M240 and M249 machine guns is a testament to our partnership with the U.S. DoD, which dates back ...

In January of 1945, a battle raged in Colmar, France, against a stronghold of the German 19th Army. This battle, known as the Battle of the Colmar Pocket, while not very well known, was a critical battle for the Allies to win. Defeating the Germans and driving them from this terrain would shorten the front, allowing fewer men to hold ...

In the early days of the United States’ involvement in World War II, stateside motivational posters proclaimed, “Remember Pearl Harbor”, and “Avenge December 7th”. And while the “date which will live in infamy” focused America’s rage on Imperial Japan, U.S. military planners in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) dreamed of vengeance against the specific planner of the Pearl Harbor ...