By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com March 11, 2023 Last edited on 3/11/23. DefenseReview’s (DR) been doing this long enough that it’s pretty hard to get us truly excited about a firearm, but the Genesis Arms Gen-12 mag-fed (magazine-fed) semi-auto 12-gauge combat/tactical shotgun’s managed to do it, since, well, it’s an AR-10-type mag-fed semi-auto 12-gauge shotgun that appears …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com June 5, 2021 Looks like California’s “assault weapons” ban, or AWB for short, just may have just hit the Consitutional WALL late Friday thanks to two people, plaintiff James Miller, and California Southern District Judge Roger T. Benitez. In Benitez’s decision, he called California’s rather Draconian assault weapons ban, which affects its …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com May 6, 2021 Speaking (or in this case, writing) of interesting and cool new little concealed carry (CCW) combat/tactical pistols, the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield Plus 9mm/.40 S&W sub-compact pistol looks interesting to us. While we here at DefenseReview (DR) are primarily Glock guys, we DO like other manufacturers’ products, and …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 30, 2021 DefenseReview hasn’t covered Springfield Armory products in quite some time. However, they recently issued a press release on their new XD-M Elite 3.8″ (inch) Compact OSP 9mm combat/tactial pistol for concealed carry (CCW), and it looks pretty good in the photos. The “OSP” stands for “Optical Sight Pistol”, and …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com February 28, 2021 DefenseReview’s (DR) been writing about Walther pistols for awhile now. We like the brand, partially because they make high-quality firearms, and partially because they’re the choice of British MI6 Special Agent 007 James Bond from the time of Sean Connery’s Bond, the ORIGINAL Bond. Ironically, we’re not tremendous fans …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com November 9, 2020 If you’re going to fight indoors with a rifle/carbiine/SBR (Short Barreled Rifle) or pistol, the best way to do it is suppressed, and with terminally-effective frangible ammo, provided you can do it reliably. That’s where Allegiance Ammunition comes in with their SilentStrike 5.56mm NATO (5.56x45mm NATO) and 9mm Parabellum/9x19mm …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com October 26, 2020 Anyone who’s trained in tactical rifle shooting and/or operated with a rifle knows that a well-designed, high-qualitytactical rifle sling can really make your life better. That’s why we here at DefenseReview (DR) are always on the lookout for the best ones we can find–and this one looks pretty good, …

by David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com August 26, 2020 DefenseReview (DR) has been covering Mission First Tactical (MFT) products for quite some time now, particularly their tactical AR (AR-15) rifle/carbine/SBR (Short Barreled Rifle) accessories (see “Related Articles” below), and we like them. So, we were pleasantly surprised to see that MFT’s now doing custom printing work on just …

by David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com August 16, 2020 A veteran-owned company called Modern Tactical Creations, or MODTAC for short, is making some very interesting carbon fiber Suppressor Shields for tactial AR (AR-15) carbine/SBR’s (Short Barreled Rifles), and MODTAC’s Dave Mason was kind enough to show DefenseReview (DR) some of them at SHOT Show 2020. The MODTAC Suppressor …

by David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com August 10, 2020 SB Tactical has some interesting new tactical pistol stabilizing braces/arm braces, and DefenseReview (DR) got to see them at SHOT Show 2020. SB Tactical rep Derrick Rachier was kind enough to take DR through the particulars of the new products, starting with the SB Tactical TAC13-SBA4 tactical pistol stabilizing …