In September of 2015, the United States military announces the opening of the XM17 Modular Handgun System competition. Aiming to replace their aging fleet of Beretta M9 service pistols, which had been in servic...
On the 7th of December, 1941, the Japanese Empire launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Intending to prevent the American fleet from interceding in Japanese plans to annex muc...
Just a few hours south of Calibre’s home offices in Kelowna sits a riding that’s seen tremendous swings throughout the election campaign, with the NDP and Conservatives trading blows week after week, just as th...
Almost everyone in Yukon Territory has a gun. It represents one of the the last settled frontiers, if you can even call it that, and is the birthplace of the longest running Canadian firearms-centric publicatio...
The 2019 election is weeks away. Justin Trudeau has committed to banning some 250,000 so-called "assault rifles," and plans to make further revisions to the way firearms are bought and sold, potentially bringin...
A Brief History of Nine
The story of the S&W auto line begins when, shortly after WWII, the US army expressed interest in replacing the 1911 as its standard service pistol. Impressed by the German-issue Wa...
Yesterday Tony Clement rose in the House of Commons to ask Bill Blair the following: "I am told on good authority that the prime minister has a secret plan to ban legal firearms. Apparently, this secret plan is...
One of the strange vagaries of the Canadian firearms act is the manner in which it incentivizes innovation. While other jurisdictions can lean on existing firearm designs that have naturally risen to the top ba...
In the mid-1950s, with America's military-industrial complex embroiled in the Cold War, American rifle development was occurring at a breakneck pace, as manufacturers scrambled to satisfy the requirements of th...
Well known for producing high-quality made-in-Canada chassis systems for a myriad of rifles, Modular Driven Technologies has found great success among shooters, law enforcement, and the military alike. But few ...