Launches, companies, and the hardware economy — covered through the media that covers it.
Dark Storm Industries' DS-25 MFR, a 6.9-pound 14.5-inch 6.5 Creedmoor gas gun, ran repeated failures to extract for roughly 500 rounds in a Boondock Ballistician review before reliability improved.
Garand Thumb's survival gun list picks a 12-gauge, a suppressed .22 pistol, a 9mm, a Ruger 10/22 and an AR-15.
Mossberg's 990 SPX Magpul in its 14.75-inch NFA form gets a full hands-on verdict from Colion Noir, who trades two rounds of capacity for handling.
FN Evolys, the ultralight belt-fed machine gun from FN Herstal, has no quick-change barrel. Forgotten Weapons strips the 5.56mm and 7.62mm versions at the factory in Belgium.
Tiger stripe combat vests in Vietnam were tailor-made, not issued. Forgotten Weapons walks through three surviving examples with author Owen Thornton, including one lined with a 1968 US mail bag.
The ZEV FDP-9 folding 9mm SBR gets a two-gun range demo from retailer Classic Firearms, six months into the first production run of a design that spent nearly two decades as a concept.
CAA's $329.99 MCK Evo chassis puts 93 rounds on a converted Glock, and reviewer Colion Noir says it might outperform a dedicated pistol caliber carbine.
Hosts Ryan and Jason count down five short-barreled 12-gauges, from PTR's new Jack to a magazine-fed Derya AR-12, and sort out which ones are legally SBS, AOW, or neither.
The Ruger RXM ran about 1,000 rounds for Boondock Ballistician with two stoppages the creator half-charges to the gun — and the factory Magpul magazines drew the video's only sustained complaint.
The torture test is the industry's most-watched genre and its least informative. There is a better ledger, and it's boring on purpose.
Reading the year's trade-show coverage as a single text, one trend dominates — the double-stack 1911 pattern is no longer a boutique curiosity.
