A Quick Visit to Century Arms’ HQ in Florida

While visiting family in Florida with my kids for their spring break, I found myself just a few minutes from the headquarters of Century Arms in Delray Beach. While Century’s HQ is almost all offices and paperwork — warehousing, distribution, manufacturing, etc. is in North Carolina — they do have some of their digital marketing … Read more

XTech Tactical Responds to Century Arms’ Lawsuit

Outside of a ridiculously gigantic binary target explosion earlier this summer and the fact that they make AK-47 magazines, I admittedly don’t know much about XTech Tactical. Looks like that may change, though, as they’re now playing with the big boys. Namely, Century Arms. But they aren’t playing nice. Or voluntarily. XTech’s press release follows … Read more

AK Fever: Century Arms C39V2 Zhukov

By Troy The first Kalashnikov clone I shot was an imported, Chinese MAK-90 which belonged to a friend. I was shocked by the low recoil and by how accurate I was with it. I came down with the ā€œAK fever.ā€ Unfortunately for me, this is not about now I acquired my friendā€™s MAK-90. The AK-47 … Read more

Gun Review: Century Arms C308 Rifle

Some years ago, Century Arms‘ first attempt at assemblingĀ CETME-style, .308 battle rifles from surplus parts didn’t go extremely well, and the product was hit-or-miss. The market has been a bit hesitant to dive back into a Century Arms-branded CETME/G3/HK91, but the most recent effort here, the C308, is definitely proving to be a solid performer … Read more

Gun Review: Century Arms WASR-10 (Romanian AK)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouSiJXJs6m0

ā€œLoose is good.ā€ I think. Since thatā€™s really just a hunch, I did the easiest most journalistically-thorough thing and Googled the phrase. My results? Well, letā€™s just say they stuck a collective finger in my gut: nearly every hit involved Weight Watchers. Then I repeated the search with the SafeSearchā„¢ filter off, at which point Iā€™d rather not say where the collective finger was sticking. Regardless, other than loose-fitting jeans (and, uh, loose-fitting other things), nothing I could find supported my contention that my friendā€™s loosey-goosey AK-variant, theĀ WASR-10, is superior to its less-wobbly alternatives. But I still think it is.

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