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Community Trust as an Operational Asset

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial on the operational value of community trust: how relationships in the places you patrol provide intelligence, cooperation, and officer safety, and what agencies and individual officers do to build or burn that asset. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going every week.

POTD: Taurus TX22 with Strike Industries FSA Lite

Amsterdam has its famous red light district. Taurus, apparently, has one too, and the main attraction folds, takes RMSc-pattern optics and runs on .22 LR. Gallery of Guns caught the all-new Brace-Ready TX22  bathed in red light, looking about as innocent as anything else.

Fudd Friday: Old-School Suppressed Hunting

American shooters live in strange, changing times. On one hand, we have state governments declaring common, everyday firearms illegal . On the other hand, we have the feds themselves significantly loosening the regulations around firearms that were formerly targeted by the National Firearms Act . Some naysayers will moan that this will bring on mayhem, but the reality is that for years, normal, […]

Another Echelon: Springfield's 4.0FC Comp Joins the Family

Springfield Armory has launched another Echelon, and this one is the Echelon 4.0FC Comp 9mm. It pairs a full-size grip module with a compact slide assembly and an integral compensator, aiming for duty-grade capacity, quick handling and a flatter-shooting pistol in one package. I have to admit it is getting hard to keep up. Since the Echelon launched in 2023, the family has grown into full-size, […]

X-CATCH FX Steel Magazine Release Takes Glock 15-Round and S15 Mags

When Glock shipped its 15-round magazines for the 43X and 48 earlier this year, a lot of owners who had already moved to Shield Arms S15 mags ran into a little bit of a parts conflict. Steel S15 magazines are strongly recommended to be used with a steel magazine release so they don’t chew up the factory polymer catch, but according to XTech Tactical, existing steel releases will not accept […]

New Magpul EHG Grips Fit Ruger LCP MAX PRO and Legacy Pistols

If you’re a fan of the Ruger LCP MAX, then you’ll be happy to learn that Magpul is not slowing down with new product releases towards the end of the year. Close on the heels of the DT-S stock, the company has released two new Enhanced Handgun Grips for the Ruger LCP MAX, both for pistols without a manual safety. One fits new production LCP MAX PRO pistols. The other fits what Magpul calls the […]

FALCO’s Three New Kydex Light-Bearing Holsters

FALCO Holsters is carrying three of its existing Kydex patterns over to light-equipped pistols with the E901 L , the FALCO E902 L , and the A905 L . The standard E901 and E902 drop-leg holsters and the A905 Velcro bag holster have been in the catalog for some time, and the new L variants mold around the light as well as the gun. The E902 L is the most involved of the three, pairing a […]

TFB Review: Mantis TitanX 701 Smart Laser Training Pistol

Mantis  has spent years building gadgets to make dry fire less of a chore, from sensors that mount to the rail of your own pistol to trigger reset systems for the AR crowd. The TitanX  is Mantis rolling all of that into one package: a Glock 19 pattern training pistol with a laser, a resetting trigger, and a MantisX sensor built right in. I first saw it at a Mantis demo during SHOT Show 2026 and […]

POTD: The Deer Hunter’s Dream Scope

Ninety minutes. That is how long a Leica artisan with more than 25 years at the bench spends hand-polishing a single Fortis Glossy riflescope. The high-gloss, weather-resistant finish is made to match the deep bluing of a classic bolt-action or break-barrel rifle. In an era when hand craftsmanship in European optics grows rarer every season, here is proof that some of it is still alive.

Concealed Carry Corner: Carrying In Your Vehicle

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner . Last week, we looked at the second part of some of the biggest carry mistakes people tend to make. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here  to check it out. This week, I wanted to look at an interesting debate people will have when it comes to carrying inside your vehicle. For years, people have gone back […]

Speer Awarded Contract to Provide 9mm Luger JHP to Canadian Military

Here’s Speer’s announcement in full:

DOJ Sues Glendale, CA Over Roughly $2,000 Concealed Carry Permit Costs

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the City of Glendale, California, over how the Glendale Police Department issues concealed carry permits. The complaint , filed Nov. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (No. 2:26-cv-13098), comes down to two things: what a permit costs and how much leeway the police have to say no. Glendale “cannot impose unreasonable fees […]

Remington Bolsters Suppressor Cleaning Supplies, Cleaning Kits & More

When most people think of Remington it invokes thoughts of firearms and ammunition, but we shouldn’t be so quick to overlook the multitude of accessories and cleaning products they craft as well. Some of their newest offerings are geared towards silencer owners as they have become so popular with them being “de-regulated” to the point where we can finally obtain them with a simple 4473. So, […]

TFB Behind the Gun #243: Selling Certainty in an Uncertain NFA Era

Dan Wolgin of Ammunition Depot is back on TFB’s Behind the Gun Podcast, only a few weeks after  our last conversation . Since then, the ATF announced on October 9 that it would stop enforcing NFA registration and approval for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs nationwide, and most of the industry has been celebrating. Dan spent much of this episode on how quickly that could be undone. The […]

TFB Review: Vortex AMG UH-1 Gen II Holographic Sight

Holographic sights have never really been my wheelhouse. I know they get pricey, and I know the usual knocks against them are battery life and reticle quality, but past that, I do not have a ton of experience with them. So when  Vortex Optics  sent over their  AMG UH-1 Gen II  to pair with the  MAC IX I was reviewing  earlier this year, I came into it pretty green. That being said, it ended […]

POTD: IWI Tavor with the Pulsar Trail 3 LRF XR50

Some rifles practically beg for a thermal scope. The IWI Tavor is usually not one of them. Most Tavors spend their lives with a red dot on top and an owner explaining to friends where the magazine actually goes, so spotting one wearing Pulsar’s brand new Trail 3 LRF XR50  makes you look twice, which is exactly why it earned its place as today’s TFB Photo of the Day.

Taurus TXM: One Pistol, Two Calibers – 5.7x28mm & .22 WMR

Taurus customers have been asking for a magnum version of the TX22 for a while. Taurus has answered with the TXM, and it went a step further than people asked for. The new polymer-frame, striker-fired pistol comes in both .22 WMR and 5.7x28mm, and Taurus calls it the first pistol built to switch between the two by swapping the upper assembly on a single frame.

Beretta 1301 and A300 Owners – Rejoice: Reptilia's New BPS Stock

Owners of the Beretta 1301 and A300, rejoice. Reptilia has built a stock for your scattergun. The BPS, short for Beretta Precision Stock, is a drop-in replacement for both shotguns, made from polymer, aluminium and steel, with adjustable comb height and a length of pull that starts noticeably shorter than most.

Garmin Acquires Applied Ballistics

Garmin has acquired Applied Ballistics . That’s right, one of the most popular and accurate ballistic calculator providers is going to be under Garmin’s umbrella. This poses a lot of interesting new possibilities for future product types.

BANISH HD 762 INC: All-Inconel Suppressor for Hard-Use Gas Guns

BANISH Suppressors has announced the HD 762 INC, a dedicated 7.62 NATO/.308 Winchester suppressor made entirely from additively manufactured 718 Inconel. It is the second model in the company’s Heavy Duty (HD) line after the HD 556 INC , and like its little brother, it is aimed squarely at gas guns: AR-10s, 6mm AR-15s, gas-operated precision rifles and SBRs.