SHOT Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4t7xgnHE6M Armalite is introducing their new AR-10A rifles at SHOT. The rifles build on the gunmaker's experience with the AR-10 system, allowing them to accept standard magazines (instead of only the proprietary Armalite magazines). We've...

McMillan has developed a rifle they call the C5, or Concealable Subsonic / Supersonic Suppressed Sniper System. It's a rifle that breaks down into a 23.5 inch long package for easy transport in a backpack...

As expected, Media Day at the Range was an absolute zoo. There were GOBS of people there, lines for the "good" guns were miles long, and vendors treated us more like annoying cattle than...

FNH designed the Ballista to compete for a military sniper contract. Despite its military origins, the Ballista is slated for civilian release ("in the near future"). Chambered in .338 Magnum, it's pretty damned close...

Okay, so maybe "Born In The USA" isn't quite the anthem for this pistol, but RF and I both thought the 9mm Caracal C was one of the most impressive handguns we fired today....

Thompson Center has an interesting idea for a firearm. You buy the receiver and the stock, and then you get kits mailed to you for whatever caliber you want. Included in these kits are...

After six or seven hours at the range and a fine crust of ochre desert dust covering everything we own, your dedicated correspondents repaired to RF's palatial Venetian lair to wade through piles of...

Aimpoint is releasing two new versions of some of their best selling red dot sights with new and improved 2 MoA dots instead of the standard 4 MoA dots. It doesn't make the dots...

And the award for most accommodating shotgun vendor at Media Day goes to...the fine folks at Franchi. Not that the Armed Intelligentsia give a flying fig which makers make it hard or easy on...

You'd think that gun manufacturers would bring their A-game to the SHOT show range day. That they'd make sure that the guns that they hand to journalists, you know, work. Surprisingly often, they don't....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E08HRZyNAyI KRISS is here with a slightly updated version of their VECTOR sub machine gun / rifle / pistol thinger. They've changed a couple of minor things, like making the trigger slightly better, but the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXRp9TlxE8 You can't help smile when you turn the crank on something that's close to 150 years old and fires the .45/70 Government cartridge.