Dead Air Launches Retro Comblock AK-47 Silencer
There's something strangely beautiful about the Cold War Soviet-era style. When you're relying on secluded, secretive designers and slave conscript labor to actually manufacture stuff the results can be, well, interesting. Case in point:...
Liberty Launches New Centurion Compact 9mm Silencer
I really like Liberty Suppressors. Instead of making military focused silencers, the company has catered specifically to the needs of the average civilian shooter and they're cranking out some excellent multi-caliber rated products at...
Gov. Terry Branstad Signs Bill Legalizing Suppressors in Iowa
“'It’s going to help save the hearing of Iowans that are involved in firearms and shooting, and it’s going to create jobs in our state,' said Brownells CEO Pete Brownell." That was Pete's take...
SHOT Show 2016 Final Roundup
The TTAG crew brought you lots of great coverage from SHOT Show 2016 this January, and while I think we hit the most exiting and newsworthy items we certainly didn't -- couldn't -- cover...
Radical Firearms Releases Line of Low Cost Suppressors
Silencers can be expensive. The usual price for a rifle caliber silencer is in the $1,000 range, and the tax stamp from the ATF adds another $200 to the final cost. There has been...
Gear Review: Griffin Armament Recce 5 & Recce 7 Suppressors – Part 1
As an industry, I think we're in a golden era for silencers. Ten years ago, our options were somewhat limited if we wanted to suppress our rifle(s). Fast forward a decade to this year's SHOT...
.30 Caliber Muzzle Brake Shootout
In response to popular demand, we've scaled it up a notch and have taken the 5.56 muzzle brake testing to 7.62. Specifically, 24 muzzle devices threaded 5/8-24 for use with .30 caliber cartridges joined...
Hands on with Rugged Suppressors’ Surge 7.62
In my efforts to keep my ear to the ground on things silencer-related at SHOT Show 2016, I enlisted the help of my friend Mark Kuczka at Accurate Ordnance. Mark is well versed in...
New From Liberty Suppressors: The Centurion
Liberty Cans was showing off a prototype silencer at SHOT Show, which they're calling the Centurion. In effect, it's a sawed-off Mystic. It's shorter, lighter, but not quite as quiet. There are some changes...
Griffin Armament Introduces Alpha Silencer
I was tasked with finding new silencers at SHOT, and boy did I. It seems you couldn't throw a rock at SHOT without hitting a can, many of them quite modular. A point we've beat...
Mike Pappas and Gary Hughes Silenced an AK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZ3ncHAjQQ
During Media Day at the 2016 SHOT Show I made a mandatory stop at the Dead Air booth. As your intrepid scribe, I had a duty to report on Dead Air's new Ghost-M. As...
Dead Air Armament Debuts Ghost-M
With silencers going more and more mainstream every day, many companies have capitalized on the idea of modularity in their products. As we've covered in great depth here and elsewhere, buying a silencer isn't...