Rifle
Ruger Announces The AR-556
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) announces the AR-556â„¢ semi-automatic, M4-style, direct impingement Modern Sporting Rifle. With all major components machined at Ruger’s Mayodan, NC facility, the AR-556 offers consumers an affordable, American-made Modern Sporting Rifle with the rugged reliability they have come to expect from Ruger. “The AR-556 is the first firearm designed and…
Read MoreOn The AR Platform
Andrew from Vuurwapen Blog posted this on Facebook last night and I thought it warranted a re-post here. He was talking to a friend who is an actual rocket scientist on the AR platform, and his friend said the following: I think people forget that the AR platform is a 50-year-old design, it has been…
Read MoreRifles, Shotguns, and Walls
n our last tests shooting walls, we tried to line up 4 walls that were 2 feet by 2 feet. It turned out that the 5.56 deviated so much from its course after the first wall, that it was almost impossible to hit the other walls to test penetration. So, we built bigger walls. These…
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Report: US Weapons Now in Hands of ISIS
The Islamic State (ISIS) can count on one source of support for ready weapons in its brutal attempts to take over Iraq and Syria — the U.S. taxpayer. A first-time field study report by an international weapons – track int think tank, Conflict Armament Research (CAR), has discovered six U.S.-made and U.S.-issued M16A4 assault rifles,…
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