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Sci-Fi and Space Gat 1: The AR-15-Based DL-44

March 10, 2025April 22, 2024 by Tim Stetzer

One of the greatest things about the AR platform is that you can build just about anything you can imagine. The number of companies making complete firearms, components and accessories is staggering. From basic carbines to match and DMR rifles, to pistol caliber carbines, SBR’s, pistols and even bullpups; the variations are endless. I have … Read more

Gear Review: JMT AR-15 80% Composite / Polymer Lower

June 29, 2017 by Conner W.

TTAG’s readership is a well-informed crowd. So I’ll spare you an explanation of the purpose(s) of an eighty percent lower. I will say, however, that if you’re not making at least a portion of your (where legally permitted) DIY firearms each year you should strongly consider doing so. At the very least, it’s a great … Read more

3 Tips for Cutting Foam for a Custom Gun Case from LaRue Tactical

February 28, 2017 by Conner W.

This month many of us received the first issue of the “LaRue Accuracy Report” in the mail. The report is LaRue Tactical’s new “digest for the discriminating rifleman,” as Mark LaRue puts it. Boiled-down, the publication is an eighty-eight page seasonal catalogue (translation: catalog) full of product images and info, along with a few short articles … Read more

Video: DIY Airsoft Machine Gun For About Twenty Bucks

February 17, 2014 by ttag

When was the last airsoft review we posted here at TTAG? Probably about never, which is probably when we’ll run the next one too. But in the interests of sheer ballistic goofiness, I thought I’d pass along this short video showing how to spray airsoft pellets all over the bloody place and have it cost you hardly any money. Except for the pellets. You’re gonna need a lot of those . . .

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