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- Tactical Santa – Day 1 December 14, 2025Ever wonder what Santa is up to these days? We have some photos to share with you each day between now and Christmas Day. There will be more 🙂
- Alpha Foxtrot AF1911: A New Era in Precision Firearms December 14, 2025The modern firearms landscape is currently experiencing a “Renaissance of Metal,” characterized by a consumer pivot away from purely utilitarian polymer striker-fired pistols toward precision-machined, hammer-fired platforms. At the forefront of this shift is the “2011” or double-stack 1911 sector, a market segment previously bifurcated into two inaccessible extremes: budget-tier imports with questionable quality control, ...
- Alpha Foxtrot Firearms: Analyzing the New Hybrid Manufacturer December 14, 2025The United States small arms market is undergoing a structural shift characterized by the “hybridization” of manufacturing supply chains. Historically bifurcated into purely domestic manufacturers (e.g., Colt, Smith & Wesson) and direct importers (e.g., Glock, Beretta), the market has recently seen the rise of transnational manufacturing ecosystems. In this model, foreign industrial conglomerates leverage global ...
- Technical Assessment and Market Viability Report: Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy (Gen 2 & Rolling Updates) December 14, 2025The modern small arms market has witnessed a distinct bifurcation in the last decade: the ubiquity of polymer-framed, striker-fired service pistols and the resurgent, specialized dominance of the 2011 platform—a double-stack evolution of John Moses Browning’s classic 1911 design. Historically, the 2011 architecture was gatekept by high costs and low production volumes, relegated to the ...
- Exploring the Rise of 2011-Style Pistols December 14, 2025The United States handgun market is currently witnessing a paradigm shift in the high-performance semi-automatic sector, characterized by the mass proliferation of the “2011” platform. Historically, the 2011—a modular, double-stack evolution of John Browning’s 1911 design—was a niche architecture restricted to competitive shooting circuits (USPSA/IPSC) and safeguarded by patents held by STI International (now Staccato) ...
- Explore The Giant Foreign Companies That Make Many Firearms Sold Under U.S. Brands December 13, 2025The United States civilian firearms market, characterized by its sheer volume and diversity, is frequently perceived by the consumer through the lens of domestic heritage. Brands such as Springfield Armory, Savage Arms, Mossberg, and Weatherby are inextricably linked to the American identity, evoking images of New England industrialism and Western expansion. However, a rigorous forensic ...
- Technical Assessment and Market Viability Study: IWI Galil ACE Gen II Platform December 13, 2025The Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) Galil ACE Gen II represents a significant iterative evolution in the lineage of Kalashnikov-derivative small arms, specifically designed to bridge the operational gap between the rugged reliability of Eastern Bloc engineering and the modular, ergonomic expectations of the Western market. This report provides a comprehensive small arms industry analysis of ...
- Industrial and Technical Assessment: The Palmetto State Armory Soviet Arms “Krinkov” Platform December 13, 2025The introduction of the “Krinkov” series by Palmetto State Armory (PSA) under its Soviet Arms sub-brand represents a pivotal development in the American domestic firearms manufacturing sector. This report provides an exhaustive technical and market analysis of the platform, evaluating its engineering viability, performance characteristics across multiple calibers (5.56x45mm,.300 AAC Blackout, and 7.62x39mm), and its ...
- Technical Assessment and Market Impact Analysis: Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 Platform December 13, 2025The distinct evolution of the micro-compact firearm market has reached a pivotal inflection point with the release of the Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0. For decades, the.380 ACP “pocket pistol” segment was dominated by a singular engineering philosophy: the compromise of shootability for concealability. Historical platforms, primarily Double-Action-Only (DAO) hammer-fired mechanisms, were designed as “carry ...
- Strategic Technical Assessment: The CZ P-10 Series Pistol Platform December 12, 2025The global small arms market has reached a point of saturation in the domain of polymer-framed, striker-fired service pistols. Since the introduction of the Glock Safe Action system in the early 1980s, the operational paradigm for military, law enforcement, and civilian defensive handguns has shifted decisively away from hammer-fired, metal-framed designs toward lighter, mechanically simpler, ...
- Engineering and Market Viability Assessment: The Glock 49 Gen 5 MOS December 12, 2025The small arms industry is frequently characterized by a cyclical relationship between consumer demand and manufacturing capability. For nearly three decades, a specific configuration of the polymer striker-fired handgun—the so-called “Glock 19L”—existed primarily as a theoretical ideal or a custom-fabricated anomaly rather than a factory-standard product. The recent introduction of the Glock 49 Gen 5 ...
- Three Potential US-Venezuela Conflict Scenarios and Outcomes December 12, 2025The Western Hemisphere stands at its most precarious security juncture since the height of the Cold War. As of December 2025, the convergence of Venezuela’s irredentist ambitions over the Essequibo region, the totalizing economic collapse of the Maduro regime, and a robust, forward-deployed United States military posture under Operation Southern Spear has created a pre-conflict ...
- The Crisis of the Maduro Regime: A 2025 Analysis December 12, 2025As of December 11, 2025, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela faces an existential convergence of internal institutional decay and external military siege. This report, commissioned to analyze the historical trajectory of the Venezuelan state, charts the nation’s devolution from the stability of the Puntofijo Pact to the revolutionary hegemony of Hugo Chávez, and finally to ...
- The Year 2025 In Review: Shotguns December 12, 2025The fiscal and manufacturing year of 2025 marked a pivotal transition in the small arms sector, specifically within the shotgun market. Following the supply chain volatilities of the early 2020s, the industry moved away from radical experimentalism and toward aggressive iterative engineering. Manufacturers concentrated on maximizing the efficiency of existing operating systems—inertia, gas, and pump-action—through ...
- ENGINEERING AND MARKET ANALYSIS: THE CANIK METE MC9 PRIME December 11, 2025The introduction of the Canik Mete MC9 Prime marks a significant inflection point in the trajectory of the micro-compact handgun market, as well as a strategic pivot for its manufacturer, Samsun Yurt Savunma (SYS), and its US importer/manufacturer, Canik USA. As the first Canik firearm to be manufactured domestically at the new West Palm Beach, ...
- Tactical Evaluation: Mossberg 940 Pro Platform (2024-2025) December 11, 2025The Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical series represents O.F. Mossberg & Sons’ flagship entry into the modern defensive semi-automatic shotgun market. Designed to compete directly with the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol and Benelli M2 Tactical, the platform distinguishes itself through a high feature-to-price ratio, offering native optic compatibility (Shield RMSc), adjustable ergonomics, and high-capacity magazine systems ...
- The Year 2025 In Review: Pistols December 11, 2025The fiscal and operational year of 2025 in the small arms industry has been defined not by the explosive creation of entirely new firearm categories, but by a sophisticated, albeit reactionary, refinement of existing platforms. As an industry analyst and engineering observer, the prevailing trend is a shift away from the “race to the bottom” ...
- Technical and Market Assessment: Palmetto State Armory AK-V Platform Q4 2025 December 10, 2025The Palmetto State Armory (PSA) AK-V represents a significant inflection point in the American civilian semi-automatic firearm market, effectively bridging the historical and mechanical lineage of the Kalashnikov platform with the contemporary demand for 9x19mm Pistol Caliber Carbines (PCCs). This report provides an exhaustive industry analysis and engineering evaluation of the AK-V family of firearms, ...
- Top Tier AR-15s for 2025: KAC, LMT, and More Explained December 10, 2025The 2025 United States civilian small arms market presents a paradox of choice, characterized by a saturation of AR-15 variants and adjacent platforms that range from commodity-grade assemblies to highly specialized systems commanding premiums exceeding 300% of the baseline. At the apex of this market—frequently designated as “Tier One” or “Duty Grade”—reside a select cohort ...
- The Year 2025 In Review: Rifles December 10, 2025The fiscal year 2025 has presented a complex paradox within the small arms industry, characterized by a distinct divergence between technological innovation and unit volume velocity. While the aggregate market capitalization for the rifle sector continues to show resilience, projected to reach $3.54 billion in 2025 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.35% ...