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Almost Rifles: The ATRS Modern Sporter vs M+M M10X

February 6, 2019

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...

How IBI barrels are made – right here in Canada!

Geordie Pickard

September 24, 2018

The number of companies from which you can buy a custom barrel is approaching the point of absurdity these days. Throughout the western world, manufacturing outfits have sprung up seemingly overnight to offer ...

Calibre’s Calibre: 6.8 SPC

Daniel Fritter

August 15, 2018

Since the creation of the M16, and the adoption of the small 5.56mm NATO round it fires, much has been made about the lethality of the round’s small bore projectile. After all, in civilian circles, the average ...

B+T APC223: NON-RESTRICTED EXCELLENCE… AT A PRICE

Daniel Fritter

March 3, 2018

Look, we get it. The AR-15 works, probably as well as any .223 ever will. It’s got a rich history and decades of product development behind it; it’s been deployed in countless battlefields by every non-former...

NEW AR-15 SEMI-AUTOMATIC STANDARD: RCMP

Daniel Fritter

April 26, 2017

The RCMP have circulated a new memo to gun industry members advising them of a new AR-15 semi-automatic standard being used to classify semi-automatic AR-15 receivers from fully automatic receivers. Historic...

DPMS GII: AN AR-10 FOR THIS CENTURY

Geordie Pickard

February 19, 2016

DPMS has been building both AR-10 and AR-15 pattern rifles for a long time. You’d have to figure they’d be good at it, although to be entirely honest, their reputation took a beating for a few years. The advent...

COLT CANADA IUR UPPER REVIEW

Daniel Fritter

February 15, 2016

There are those out there that would have you believe the AR-15 is the very latest in firearms technology. Billed by media outlets and politicians alike as a bleeding-edge military development project only slig...

FIRST LOOK: COMPLETE RIFLES FROM LANTAC

Geordie Pickard

January 25, 2016

We know it’s not always easy to get excited about new AR-15s - even from LANTAC. One of the big lessons from this year’s SHOT show was that when the entire western world standardizes on a single rifle platform...

VORTEX SPARC AR & SPITFIRE AR PREVIEW

Daniel Fritter

January 24, 2016

Vortex's new SPARC AR and Spitfire AR optics promise to change the way people look at AR-15 optics, and more importantly, their risers. Due to their in-line layout, AR-15s and similarly constructed semi-auto...

COLT CANADA MRR: EXCLUSIVE FIRST TEST!

Daniel Fritter

January 18, 2016

First, we won't beat around the bush: Colt Canada's Modular Railed Rifle, or MRR, is going to be coming to the civilian market in the Spring of 2016. It'll be coming in four different lengths (11.6, 14.5, 15.7 ...

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