Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

Just going for a walk with a belt-fed 7.62×51 NATO (VIDEO)

Whenever you see a frost giant like Hickok45 headed out for a walk on the plains with a belt-fed "intact" M60, you know exactly how it's going to end.

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4 requirements for building a ‘tactical’ AR-15

When I set out, to build my latest AR-15 style rifle, there were four things I felt I really needed for a properly built “tactical” AR.

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Gun Review: The new Springfield M1A SOCOM 16 (VIDEO)

A ruggedly handsome and powerful entry in the carbine class, the Springfield Armory M1A SOCOM 16 is a rough and ready shooter with neo-classic appeal.

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Heckler and Koch G3 Battlerifles: Still the main squeeze… overseas (VIDEO)

In North America, the Heckler and Koch G3 may sit in the shadow of the FAL and M14, but Western bias aside, this weapon is without argument one of the best and most popular 7.62x51mm NATO caliber combat rifles in history. Further, it’s still in heavy use around the globe.

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FN FAL: ‘The right arm of the free world’

During the Cold War, the world was divided into NATO, the Warsaw Pact and a few neutrals. While the US went with the M14/M16 and the Warsaw Pact chose the humble AK, the rest of the world went another way—the FN FAL.

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The M60 Machine gun: It’s ‘The Pig’, man! (VIDEO)

What gun saw the US through Vietnam, remains one of the most recognizable machine guns since, well, the birth of modern machine guns, and was called 'the pig' by troops who, whether they loved it or hated it, still had to carry it around? It's the M60, of course, and this mixed up, general purpose machine is still turning heads.

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