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By on June 4, 2010 in Guns, Knives, Survival, Tactical Gear

The Machete: To Lanyard, Or Not to Lanyard – Armed & Christian – On the occasions that I do use a lanyard, this is how I do it.

Protecting Against Home Invasions – ITS Tactical – ITS Tactical has done a lot to tear down the illusion of security that many people have by showing how easy it is to pick locks, escape handcuffs, etc. Now they are offering some no nonsense tips for protecting your home.

Negligent Discharges vs. Accidental Discharges – Vuurwapen Blog – All too often these two terms are used incorrectly. It is time we started calling a spade, a spade. 99.99999% of the time you hear a news story about an accidental discharge, they are actually talking about a negligent discharge.

Bayonets for NAA Mini Revolvers – The Firearm Blog – Check your calender. Mine must be wrong. Is it April 1st?

A-TACS Nylon Cordura Fabric, Webbing and Hook and Loop Now Available – Soldier Systems – The components needed to build gear with the interesting new A-TACs camo scheme are now available.

Global Tactical Thunder Bolt

By on June 2, 2010 in Guns

Global Tactical has been selling an excellent bolt carrier group (BCG) called the Super Duty Bolt for years now. I have been very pleased with the one that I have in my range/training rifle. It is in excellent bolt that meets or exceeds mil-spec. The Super Duty Bolts were basically hand built by Global Tactical. Now Global Tactical has found a manufacturer who will make BCGs to their specs. This will help keep costs down which is good news for consumers.

The new BCG is called the Thunder Bolt. Check it out at Global Tactical.

Lancer L15 Lower Receiver

By on June 1, 2010 in Guns

Lancer, the folks who make the excellent Lancer L5 magazines, are now bringing to market a new lower receiver for the AR-15 family of weapons. It has a pretty unique feature – interchangeable magazine wells.

The modular magazine wells will allow the user to tailor the size of the magazine opening to their preference. There will be three sizes: Competition (largest), Tactical (medium), and Standard (similar to standard lower). The lowers will be sold in various package deals ranging from stripped to premium with high ends stocks, grips, and triggers.

It will be interesting to see if these take off considering that they are not inexpensive and the functionality may be over-kill for most users. Still, it is exciting to see innovative manufacturers like Lancer continuing to press the limits of the AR-15 platform.

Check out the L15 at Lancer’s website.

Battle Arms Development Ambi Safety Selector

By on May 30, 2010 in Guns, Tactical Gear

This is a pretty clever new take on the AR-15 safety selector. The Battle Arms Development, Inc. Ambi Safety Selector is an ambi selector that allows the user to choose between several different sizes and shapes of selector lever on both sides of the rifle.

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There are good reasons to have an ambi selector even if you are a right handed. For instance, you may have to switch to your weak side in order to clear a corner or you may lose full or partial use of your strong hand. The nice thing about this lever is that you could put a short or slim lever on the side that you do not typically use so that it is out of your way or you could put a larger lever on your weak side to make it easier for your weak hand to manipulate.

If I were to install one of these, I would give the screws a good dose of Loc-Tite and I would suggest that you do as well. Screws always make me nervous and they certainly could be a downside to gear like this. Shooters should always weigh the pros and cons carefully if they ever choose to replace a simple part with a more complicated one.

Issues with the US Palm AK30 Magazines

By on May 25, 2010 in Guns

Don’t put your old reliable Eastern European metal mags or Bulgarian Waffles in storage just yet. There have been some teething issues with the new US Palm AK30 mags. I don’t think it is time to give up on these mags yet, but there have been some major issues in the form of cracked feed lips.

You can’t help but root for a US manufacturer of AK products. Hopefully, I will be able to report here soon that a new improved mag with all the bugs worked out is available. We are pulling for you US Palm.

AK Matt at AK47 Talk has been covering the issues HERE and HERE.

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