5.56 NATO

This week, we are exploring the V-Drill. Made famous by pro shooter Jerry Miculek, this drill tests your ability to handle America’s favorite rifle.

An ideal home defense Ar-15 should be lightweight, modular, decently accurate and equipped with a light, laser, and a red dot sight. Smith and Wesson’s new M&P15T with M-LOK and Crimson Trace LiNQ System, perfectly fits these requirements, and I recently had the pleasure of testing one.

It is pretty hard to get excited about an AR-15 in the current marketplace, which as a consumer is a good problem to have. I am certain there is an analogy in me somewhere that is family website friendly but let’s all just use our own imaginations instead. I have reviewed three SAINT models in the last 365 days if you count the pistol, and I count the pistol. It was going to have to be spectacular to get my attention.

And on this one, Springfield Armory delivered in spades.

Nostalgically named after boom boxes, Ghetto Blaster rifles are powerful and highly portable. These guns are built on the new Gen 4 Noveske receivers.

Fabrique National of Herstal just announced a PDW-style version of their flagship SCAR rifle at this year’s Milipol defense expo.

Primary Arms has an updated Micro Dot, the MD-RB-AD. It promises battery life and performance in the range of Aimpoint’s red dots at a fraction of the cost.

The Sharps Bros. company has been hard at work developing new versions of their Hellbreaker, Jack and Warthog lower receivers.

The new Saint is designed to cater to people looking for a rifle a step up from a vanilla AR that also includes everything you need to get shooting.

As SIG SAUER’s plan of global domination progressed last year, the world was treated to an entirely new rifle in the MCX. A lot of the press went to the smaller, pistol-sized, but the MCX did make waves. It became the duty weapon of the Netherlands Maritime SOF, the British CTSFO, the Berlin Police, and [...]