The Double Shoot app allows shooters to zero in targets as well as track progress. (Photo: Double Shoot via Instagram) A new smartphone app known as Double Shoot aims to offer quick zeroes, scoring and comparisons for shooters on a variety of weapon platforms. Able to be used alongside rifles and even machine guns, the
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The four ceremonial handguns are filled with details about the history and reverence of the Tomb Sentinels. (Photos: Sig) The Army is slated to accept a quartet of specially created M17 pistols from New Hampshire gun maker Sig Sauer later this month intended for a very special purpose: to arm select Sentinels at the Tomb
Vande Zande’s skill with a rifle earned him a reputation as “the human benchrest.” (Photo: USAMU) With over 200 national records in his competition shooting career, “the human benchrest,” U.S. Army Maj. Ernie Vande Zande has passed away. Vande Zande, who was the Team Leader for the United States Olympic Shooting Team in 1996, died
Currently based in Martin Grier’s Colorado Springs garage, Forward Defense Munitions may have what the Army has long been looking for. FDM’s 6.5-pound experimental “ribbon gun” has five 6mm bores in one barrel and is loaded with five-shot caseless ammo blocks that can be snapped together to eliminate a traditional detachable magazine. The electrically-fired gun,
The one-year contract will send as many as 10,000 M4/M4A1s to U.S. allies in Africa and the Near East. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com) Connecticut-based Colt’s Manufacturing last week was awarded a significant Pentagon security assistance contract. The $57.72 million firm-fixed-price contract announced by the U.S. Army on Thursday covers delivery of up to 10,000 M4 and
Savage Arms offers a discount program for LE, military and first responders. (Photo: Savage Arms) First responders, law enforcement and military are set to receive special pricing on Savage Arms firearms courtesy of the Savage Service Program. The Savage Service Program, running through Dec. 31, allows qualified customers to purchase Savage firearms at 30-percent off
New Hampshire gun maker Sig Sauer launched a four-part video series detailing how its bid for a contract to provide the Army with a new Modular Handgun System won and entered service. The marketing campaign details how a variant of the Sig Sauer P320 was pitted against a host of competitors for the largest U.S.
Ammo Inc. manufacturers Streak Ammunition, a visual style of ammo. (Photo: Guns.com) Ammo Inc sets its sights on the the defense market, announcing plans to expand its product lines to pursue military and law enforcement clientele. The company said a “portfolio of 50-caliber ammunition” as well as rifle rounds aimed at supporting new military weaponry
Sig Sauer is making just 5,000 commemorative editions of the U.S. Army’s M17 official service pistol, winner of the landmark Modular Handgun System contract. Phil Strader, Sig’s pistol product manager, shows off one of the limited-production handguns, serial numbered 1 to 5,000. The gun ships in the same basic vanilla cardboard packaging used in the
The paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne have been testing a lightweight howitzer for those special moments when you need to airmail some artillery. A battery of the 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment has been documenting their testing of the Mandus Group’s Hawkeye Mobile Weapon System over the past few weeks. The system blends an M20
The contract was awarded for a handgun sight to be used “for rapid day and night pistol target engagements in confined spaces, while prisoner handling, or in extremis after the primary weapon malfunctions.” (Photo: USSOCOM) The U.S. Special Operations Command awarded Michigan-based Trijicon on Wednesdaya $7.62 million contract for handgun sights. The firm-fixed-price contract for
Then-U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno looks through the sight of an XM25 during his visit to Fort Belvoir, Va., Nov 1, 2013. Canceled by the Army last April, it was announced the program was officially ended last week. (Photo: DoD) The long-touted but unproven XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement weapon system has
Images of M17s fielded with the Army currently in circulation often show Safariland’s Level III 7TS holster series in use. (Photo: U.S. Army) The Pentagon announced Monday that a Virginia-based distributor won a contract to supply holsters for the Army’s new Modular Handgun System. Atlantic Diving Supply was awarded a $49 million firm-fixed-price contract for
3M agreed to pay $9.1 million for allegedly selling defective earplugs to the U.S. military. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Micah VanDyke/Army Times) 3M Company will pay $9.1 million to resolve claims it knowingly supplied defective earplugs to the U.S. military, according to a news release from the Department of Justice published last week. The settlement comes
While it is not known what upper SOCOM has chosen from Sig Sauer, the company introduced their SUR300 .300 BLK Upper Reciever Group, compatible with both MCX and AR-style lowers, earlier this year. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com) The U.S. Special Operations Command last week awarded a contract for suppressed uppers from Sig Sauer in an effort
Members of Vista Outdoor’s leadership team present a check for more than $146,000 to the Veterans Community Project (Photo: PRNewsfoto/Vista Outdoor Inc.) Vista Outdoor raised more than $146,000 for a homeless veteran’s charity based in Kansas City earlier this month. The Veteran’s Community Project will use the funds to build “tiny house” communities and provide
A Remington Defense R4 series platform (Photo: Remington) Big Green announced this week that they have been awarded an unspecified contract for “commercial off the shelf” 5.56mm carbines to the U.S. Army. While details are scarce, Remington said the contract is through the Army “on behalf of key international allies,” with Remington CEO Anthony Acitelli
The AR-15 is a versatile platform, allowing shooters to tweak and customize its design to best suit their needs and budget. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com) While we’d all love to have the resources to piece out AR-15 builds without thinking of price, for most of us that’s not a possibility. Welcome to the budget build. The
If you were like me as a kid then you grew up watching action movies where black clad commandos rappelled in through the roof with MP5’s blazing, or you cut your teeth on games like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 where the MP5SD was a silent death dealer. It’s perhaps the most ubiquitous pistol caliber carbine
Brookshire, showing off an MFAL-equipped M17 handgun, itself a Streamlight TLR-8 on a modified Sig Sauer P320 (Photo: U.S. Army) Not to spoil the surprise, but the Army’s new Multifunction Aiming Light seems to be a modified Streamlight TLR-8, as shown off at a recent event During a “Close Combat Lethality Tech Day” demonstration at
The VKS by PepperBall is a non-lethal platform recently awarded a U.S. Army contract. (Photo: PepperBall) The U.S. Army awarded PepperBall a $650,000 contract for the company’s Variable Kinetic System, a non-lethal launcher that will grant troops non-lethal force protection while in the field. The award, announced Tuesday, is in support of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Joint
Sgt. Robert Brown fires an MP5 submachine gun at a range on the Iraqi Special Operations Forces compound at Baghdad’s Victory Base Complex, Oct. 16, 2009. (Photo: U.S. Army) The U.S. Army plans to award a flurry of small contracts to 10 different firearm companies for what it is terming “Sub Compact Weapons.” A synopsis
Caracal USA launches a discounted pricing program for LE and military. (Photo: Caracal USA) Caracal USA announced it will now provide discounted pricing on Caracal guns and accessories to military, law enforcement and public service professionals through its new Caracal Officer Program. “Caracal USA is a strong supporter of America’s law enforcement, military, and public
Without giving too many specifics, SureFire said, “The MasterFire performed as designed, validating the concept and fulfilling the requirement.” (Photo: SureFire) Fountain Valley, California-based SureFire says one of their new weapon light-interfacing MasterFire holsters have been used with success by military commandos. “Recently a US Special Operations team successfully conducted the first night combat jump
A Brief History In 1980 Ronnie Barrett decided to answer the age-old question “what if I need to disable an armored vehicle that’s about a mile away across a valley and also hiding behind a concrete wall?” The answer was the “Barrett Light Fifty” anti-materiel rifle. Originally designated the M82, it was a designed to
The Marines are increasingly using more realistic moving targets to simulate combat environments in training. The devices, supplied by Marathon Targets, look a little silly but as any practical or 3-gun competitor will vouch for, nailing a moving target is immensely harder and better training than spending a lot of lead equity zipping rounds through
The Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, the author’s favorite percussion revolver. (Photo: Terril James Herbert/Guns.com) In my Top 5 Percussion Revolvers, I listed the Colt 1851 Navy on top of that rather subjective list. Percussion revolvers and millennials don’t usually go together, but in my case I have owned and shot Colt Navy pistols more frequently
Moving away from the classic M40-series, Marine Scout Snipers have a new and improved precision rifle platform that is making it out to the Fleet. The Mk13 Mod 7 rifle is based on the Accuracy International AICS long action system. Whereas the legacy Remington 700-based M40, used and extensively upgraded since the 1960s by the
The Department of State released a draft proposal this week easing export restrictions on firearms and ammunition. The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls finally unveiled the suggested amendments to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) on Monday, shifting oversight of commercial arms sales to the Commerce Department and its Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The
Sig’s 1-6x24mm TANGO6 optic will top off a variant of the Heckler & Koch G28E rifle to serve as the Army’s new SDMR, replacing legacy accurized M14 rifles. (Photos: Sig Sauer) The Army has announced that Sig Sauer’s 1-6x24mm Tango6 optic has been selected to equip the service’s new Squad Designated Marksman Rifle. The Tango6