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Derya Arms - mainly known for their tactical shotguns, pistols, and rifles - has announced an official entry into the American market. As part of this expansion, Derya Arms has established a 15,000-square-foot facility in Jacksonville, Florida. This new factory will serve as both an import hub and a manufacturing center, ensuring that all products meet the high standards demanded by American shooters.

One of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States, with generations of history supplying legal firearms worldwide to law enforcement, police and other government organizations, not to mention millions of civilian customers, has had their Facebook account shut down.

Freedom Munitions is changing things up. The ammo producer (selling both their own made-in-house ammo and remanufactured rounds) is now making its X-Treme Bullets projectiles in its relatively new Idaho plant, shutting down production of those components in Nevada.

Been to the Hydra Weaponry website lately? If so, you might notice some out-of-stock notices, but that should start changing soon. The Maine-based firearms maker has just announced an expansion to a larger manufacturing facility.

Most of you will know that platforms like YouTube tend not to be so friendly with channels like TFBTV. While it would be nice if we could be treated equally on the platform, the sad reality is that we often just have to adapt to work around the new rules imposed on us. Moving to a new platform is a nice thought, but unless your entire audience moves with you, it’s a more or less fruitless endeavor. Joe of the YouTube Desk Pop has had a lot of struggles with YouTube and his channel lately and today we’ll discuss some of the ideas he has about how to keep his channel alive on YouTube while dealing with the common trends of demonetization and lack of support on the platform form YouTube itself.

SIG Sauer have celebrated the opening of their newest facility the JAAC or Jacksonville Arkansas Ammunition Center. The huge new manufacturing facility expands SIG’s existing production space with a further 210,000 square feet dedicated to supporting the Next Generation Squad Weapon systems now entering service with the US Army. JAAC will focus on SIG’s advanced new hybrid ammunition which is an integral part of the NGSW platform.

Renowned German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch has announced the launch of HK USA, which may have many scratching their heads wondering, “Isn’t that already a thing?” Well, yes and no. Until now HK USA has imported and assembled Heckler & Koch firearms from their headquarters in Columbus, Georgia while design and manufacturing have remained largely in Germany. This dynamic has sparked deep-seated misconceptions about the company’s commitment to the American commercial market. Unanswered demand for models and features has frustrated the community, inspiring claims that Heckler & Koch hates its customers and reserves its focus for military contracts.

Correction 10/8/24: IWI have reached out to clarify that they currently have no plans to open a facility in Anderson County despite local news reports.

A new brand for thermals and night vision equipment has been born: Nocpix. This is a brand by InfiRay Technologies. According to the presentation Nocpix was born to push the boundaries in the outdoor electro-optic industry by using the latest advancements in thermal sensor technology. The brand name is an abbreviation of “nocturnal” and “pixel”, which represents their ambition to create next-level thermal night vision image quality. Nocpix mentions specialization and innovation as key factors for their future success, and they say they are dedicated to providing the most complete thermal and digital night vision product lineup.

Have you heard the rumors for the past few years? Since at least 2021, there has been Internet chatter that the National Firearms Museum is selling off firearms from its collections. Now, the National Firearms Museum has issued a statement that says this isn’t the case.

Thompson/Center Arms is moving! After former T/C owner Gregg Ritz bought the company back from Smith & Wesson, he announced his plans to move the company’s production back to New Hampshire—and ahead of that, he’s taking us on a tour through the company’s history as it’s packed up at the S&W HQ.

A saga that has dragged on for several months now will see yet another delay, as the planned vote on the sale of Vista Outdoors’ ammunition business has been delayed.

On Monday, July 22, lawyers for the city of Chicago filed paperwork to end their high-profile lawsuit against Glock. Does this mean a big legal win for the Austrian gunmaker, and for American shooters? No. Instead of giving up in their aggressive legal battle, Chicago’s leaders are doubling down, and expanding their lawsuit.

It turns out that the Czechoslovak Group (CSG) really really really wants to buy Vista Outdoors’ ammunition business. They want it so bad that they’ve actually upped their bid again, ahead of a crucial shareholder vote that will see whether or not a huge chunk of American domestic ammo manufacturing ends up with foreign ownership.

Colt CZ Group’s expansion continues at pace with the announcement that their factory in Hungary will increase its production capacity to help serve the export market. The factory was initially established, following an agreement with the Hungarian government, in 2018 to produce CZ Bren 2 rifles for the Hungarian armed forces but Colt CZ Group now plans to export Hungarian made firearms as part of external procurements and sales.

2024 marks the 135th anniversary of the founding of the FN factory in Herstal, Belgium. No Herstal Group, FN’s parent company, will be changing its name to FN Browning Group. This encapsulates the company’s two major brands - both of which have a lot of history behind them.

If you head southeast toward Arlington from the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, you will soon come to a small industrial park just off of Highway 287. Nestled in with several other businesses including a manufacturing company and machine shop, a laser etching/engraving operation, and a metal and Cerakote finishing service, you will find a premium firearms manufacturer: Lone Star Armory. Founded in 2006, LSA’s Texas-proud DNA is comprised of critical lessons learned from warfighting and law enforcement, a heritage of competition shooting and auto racing, and an obsessive passion for the pursuit of absolute excellence in every aspect of the mission, right down to the minutiae of every individual component or process.

The board at Vista Outdoors is unanimously behind a restructuring plan that will see the Czechoslovak Group (CSG) buying its ammo-related business, with the rest of the company restructuring after the sale.

JamesReeves  brings you an exclusive interview with Ron Cohen, the CEO of SIG Sauer, at SIG's headquarters during the SIG NEXT event. This no-holds-barred conversation covers everything from the best guns SIG has ever made to Ron's personal favorites. We delve into the future of the P365 series, including exciting developments like the SIG P365 Fuse.

The MidwayUSA Foundation continues to pump money back into the shooting world, with the announcement of $2.3 million in grants for range improvement in the U.S.

In the early 80s, Iraq Military Industry was quite impressive for a Middle Eastern country. With the help of Yugoslavia, the country produced several different AK-pattern rifles, light machine guns, and various sniper rifles.

In today’s episode of TFB’s Behind the Gun Podcast, we’ve brought on Matt and Annalise from FirearmLand to talk about buying, selling, and trading guns. FirearmLand specializes in finding, researching, and then auctioning off a wide variety of firearms from modern options to some rare antiques and even NFA items. Today Matt and Annalise join the podcast to discuss how their business is run in tandem with their other business CashForArms and how this business has given them some rare opportunities to look at and shoot guns they’d otherwise never get to touch. Today Matt and Annalise will also talk about their growing YouTube channel, which is intended to give their viewers a closer look at some rare and unique firearms that we don’t often get to see. Please give Matt and Annalise from FirearmLand a warm welcome to the TFB Podcast!

In the first part of the interview, I spoke with Jim Fuller about his experience with Chinese AKs. In this chapter, he will talk about the early 2000s, when US companies just started to build the first American-made AKs.

Selling guns can be quite a difficult task if you don’t have the right audience and sometimes your guns are either so expensive or so weird that finding a buyer in your local area might be next to impossible. The next logical solution might be to go to an online auction or classifieds site – while those are great options, they also come with their own downsides that I’m sure most of you are familiar with. Cash for Arms aims to eliminate all of that by providing its customers with a transparent selling process, competitive compensation, and a knowledgeable team to properly asses gun values.

The MidwayUSA Foundation is investing in the future of shooting, in a big way. The non-profit group has announced it has put $5.4 million into youth shooting sports programs in the U.S., including a massive chunk of cash in its latest grant cycle.

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This video contains rare, exclusive footage inside the Beretta Italy factory, showing how the Beretta 92 pistol is made. In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves is in Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, to visit the oldest gun company in the world, Beretta. James brings you behind-the-scenes access to explore the processes behind the making of Beretta’s world-renowned firearms and a close-up look at the latest technological advancements Beretta is employing in gun manufacturing.

Virginia-based Optimus Arms is growing—they’ve recently announced the acquisition of Hexmag and Sentry Solutions from Sentry Products. In turn, that means Optimus Arms is now going to form a new company from these pieces called Hexmag USA LLC.

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We all know Zastava Arms as a firearms manufacturer, Serbia’s premier maker of Kalashnikov-pattern rifles and more. In addition to their dozens of famed AK models, Zastava also produces quite a few other weapons, from handguns to bolt-action rifles and even a couple of anti-aircraft artillery pieces for their many national military customers. They have been in the weapons manufacturing business for more than 170 years, with their foundry’s first cannon barrels having been cast in Serbia’s fourth-largest city of Kragujevac (Крагујевац) all the way back in 1853. Now for SHOT Show this year, they’re partnering with Miona Badžević Anđelković, a Serbian entrepreneur, competitive shooter, fashionista, media personality, extreme sportswoman, humanitarian, and more. Zastava’s SHOT Show presentation will feature some of Miona’s exquisite fashion handiwork from her “LET HER” brand, in the form of dresses made of leather and brass shell casings. Check out the recent social media announcement about their collaboration with Miona to bring these incredible creations to Las Vegas later this month, copied below.