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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com January 16, 2011 Updated on 1/17/11. Less size and less weight doesn’t mean less fun, when it comes to your gun. When it comes to tactical firearms, smaller and lighter is often better. Enter the new 78-shot Armatac SAW-LITE (also written SAWLITE) 4179 STANAG 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. drum mag (magazine), …
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FERFRANS HVLAR (High Volume Light Automatic Rifle) IAR-Type Piston-Driven AR Carbine Performs 150-Round Full-Auto Mag Dump with ARMATAC SAW-MAG 150-Round Double-Drum Magazine (Video!)
By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. January 12, 2011 Updated on 1/31/11. FERFRANS Specialties, manufacturer of the truly excellent FERFRANS SOAR (Special Operations Assault Rifle) select-fire/full-auto AR (AR-15) SBRs (Short Barreled Rifles), recently introduced their Infantry Automatic Rifle …
Read More »Higher Capacity 55-Round 5.56mm NATO and 32-Round 7.62mm NATO Rifle Magazines for Tactical AR (AR-15 and SR-25-type) and M14/M1A Rifles/Carbines/SBRs (Photos and Video!)
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by either Higher Capacity, LLC or DefenseReview.com (DR), and are copyrighted. Higher Capacity and DefenseReview.com own the copyright on their respective photos. DefenseReview.com’s photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). January 6, 2011 DefenseReview (DR) …
Read More »KAC SR-25 EM/M110 SASS (Semi-Automatic Sniper System) 16″ Carbine: 7.62mm NATO/.308 Win. Tactical AR Battle Carbine/Rifle Outfitted with Leupold 1.1-8x CQBSS Tactical Rifle Scope for U.S. Military Special Operations (SPECOPS) Mountain Warfare Ops in Afghanistan: DR Photos from SOFIC 2010!
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). December 22, 2010 DefenseReview got a chance to view and handle the KAC SR-25 Enhanced …
Read More »Next Generation Arms (NGA) X7 Mid-Length Tactical AR Rifle/Carbine/SBR with Advanced Ceramic Technology (ACT) Self-Lubricating and Protective Internal and External Ceramic Coating Tech (Video!)
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com December 20, 2010 Updated on 12/24/10. In his January 2008 article for DefenseReview (DR) on the LaRue Tactical Stealth 16″ Stealth Complete Upper Receiver Assembly, DR contributor Mike Pannone discussed Next Generation Arms’ (NGA) Advanced Ceramic Technology (ACT) protective and self-lubricating internal ceramic coating tech. ACT is designed to take direct-gas-impingement (DGI) …
Read More »Lancer Systems L5 Advanced Warfighter Magazine (Lancer L5 AWM) 30-Round 5.56mm NATO Translucent Polymer AR Mag (AR-15/M16 Rifle Magazine) to Debut at SHOT Show 2011
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com December 3, 2010 Speaking of polymer magazines, and, more specifically, translucent polymer mags, Lancer Systems plans to introduce the Lancer L5 Advanced Warfighter Magazine (L5 AWM) at SHOT Show 2011 in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada in January (2011). DefenseReview (DR) readers may or may not remember that we published a heads-up article …
Read More »TangoDown Introduces 30-Round Translucent Polymer ARC Magazine for Tactical ARs
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were shot by DefenseReview.com (DR), and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The embedded photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). December 3, 2010 TangoDown recently introduced a translucent ARC magazine (ARC-L Commercial magazine, …
Read More »Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P High-Capacity Tactical Pistols for Competition and Personal Protection: An In-Depth Military Operator/Competition Shooter’s Analysis (Photos and Video!)
By Jeff Gurwitch November 14, 2010 For this review of the Smith & Wesson M&P (Military & Police) pistol series, I want to do something that I think is different from what you might normally see on a review of a gun. Most firearms reviews I have seen seem to be based on the writer giving his or her impressions …
Read More »Adams Arms 7.62x39mm Select-Fire, Rate-Reduced AR SBR (AR-15 Short Barreled Rifle) Prototype with FERFRANS Rate Reduction System (RRS) (Video!): Meet the AR AK SBR/PDW.
By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com DefenseReview (DR) has published a number of articles on FERFRANS Specialties SOAR (Special Operations Assault Rifle) series hard-use select-fire gas piston/op-rod (operating rod) and direct-gas-impingement (DGI) AR SBRs (AR-15 Short Barreled Rifles), carbines, and PDWs (Personal Defense Weapons) due to the fact that they rock. FERFRANS SOAR select-fire AR weapons are quality-manufactured …
Read More »Adams Arms Gas Piston/Op-Rod Retrofit Kits for Tactical and Competition AR (AR-15)/M4/M4A1 Carbines/SBRs: Smooth-Shooting, Accurate, and Reliable (Photos and Video!)
By Jeff Gurwitch October 28 2010 Updated on 10/29/10 I was first introduced to the Adams Arms gas piston/op-rod (operating rod) system by fellow soldier Kirk Broyles while we were both competing at the 2009 Blue Ridge 3-Gun Championship. Kirk, shooting for Adams Arms, showed me his system and said he would set me up with Jim Granger of Adams …
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