“Tag: army”

Our Founding Fathers most certainly could envision firearms that could shoot more than three rounds per minute.

On the internet, there is a popular meme of Sean Bean as Ned Stark from “Game of Thrones” facing a fierce wind, clad in a wolf–skin cloak and saying, “Brace yourselves…” and then an endless number of witty closures follow, warning the reader that your news feed is about to be populated with dozens of mentions of anything from Marine Corps birthday notices to election-result conspiracies.

There’s an interesting term in the gun-guy’s lexicon. It’s “safe queen,” meaning a firearm of such great value that it remains in the safe, unused, unhandled and absolutely unfired.

Maybe, just maybe, the guns of the future are here right now.

Winchester was recently awarded a $9 Million contract for tracer ammunition.

The lore filtered down from American ground forces in Vietnam—and later from those in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts—was that the M16 and its related M4 platform worked well when they worked, but sometimes failed spectacularly under various combinations of dust, dirt and heat.

This is in addition to their original contract to manufacture 5.56 NATO, 7.62 NATO and .50 BMG cartridges.

Can you use a classic, original-style 1911 in .45 ACP for self defense?

The U.S. Army has awarded FN America with a contract for M240L machine guns and receivers.