Gunsmithing

This Vice video report by Keegan Hamilton on so-called ghost guns and the 3D printing revolution that's making building your own firearm increasingly accessible to more people is well worth the 30 minutes it...

At Black Collar Arms we have had the pleasure of creating some really awesome custom Pork Sword Pistols for our customers. We've done a bunch of really unique Cerakote jobs (example 1, example 2),...

Over the last year, I've made a solidly-performing 9mm polymer framed pistol, a fun AR-15 style rifle and a great "parts-bin" AR10 in 6.5 Creedmoor based on kits from 80% Arms and Brownells. For...

The first Gun Maker’s Match was held Saturday at the Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida. The DIY gun competition was the brainchild of Rob Pincus, well known shooting instructor and (sometimes...

Can we live with regulating home-made guns? The answer is yes. Californians have lived with detachable magazine regulation through the “bullet button.” All it takes is a little ingenuity. To solve this puzzle, though,...

On Tuesday, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel vacated a lower court's injunction that had blocked Defense Distributed from sharing electronic files for 3D printed gun and parts. It was the latest...

Last month I completed three different AR platform lower receivers using the 80% Arms Easy Jig Gen 3 Multi-Platform 80% Lower Jig. The Easy Jig is a great product, and provided much better results than...

  C.a.R Firearms is a small shop that specializes in custom work and related services (think build vs. assemble) located south of Seattle. Every time I'm there I make a mess, drooling over fantastic, precision-built guns...

When Ruger launched the Ruger-57 a year ago (TTAG review HERE), we were taken quite by surprise. Nobody foresaw this FN Five-seveN competitor coming, but it was a great news for fans of the...

1 March, 2021 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Request on Behalf of Law-Abiding Owners of Non-Firearm Receiver Blanks and NonCommercial Manufacturers of Home-Built Firearms Dear Mr. President: Recent reports indicate that your administration is...

Ah, the 1911. There is a certain poise and surety when an American hand wraps around the grip of one of these classics, almost like slipping on a well-worn leather glove with the colors...

Australians making 3D printed guns have came up with an interesting way to get around the durability problem: interchangeable disposable barrels. https://twitter.com/nswpolice/status/1293041086634418181 The frame appears to be based on the Songbird design that's floating around the...