Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

Regardless of your shooting activities, keep in mind that sometimes bigger is better, and other times it’s a must.

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Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc. has been awarded an $8 million contract for the procurement of M107A1, M107, and M82A1M, Caliber .50 Long Range Sniper Rifle systems.

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McCutchen Firearms has released two precision .50 BMG upper receiver assemblies for AR-15s, featuring the proprietary Mechanically-Assisted Pin Safety (M.A.P.S.) system.

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Edwin Sarkissian grabs a half-dozen preseasoned iron skillets fresh from Wal-Mart and, while they may be excellent for searing or frying, their ballistic properties are suspect.

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Sure, enough dirt can stop anything, but how much is needed to stack up against .50 BMG? Somewhere in the high desert, Edwin Sarkissian is up to the research.

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Matt with Demolition Ranch picked up a bunch of watermelons and assorted target media-- such as dry ice-- to test some backyard ballistics.

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After stumbling across an 80-pound column of unwanted polypropylene plastic, 704 Tactical decided to get it involved in a love triangle that includes a Vepr and a .50 cal.

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Edwin Sarkissian came across a sheet of the type of ballistically resistant acrylic sheets like the ones used in bank windows and stacked it eight slices deep.

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In a quest to find out which makes a better barrier to the wrecking ball that is the .50 cal, Royal Nonesuch grabbed a few buckets of sand and water for some backyard comparison tests.

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Matt on Demolition Ranch shows us what kind of force comes from the rapidly escaping gas of a rifle's muzzle brake.

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Royal gives us a little tour of some the homemade guns he and Mark Serbu have been working on lately.

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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday announced the fatal shooting of an Ecuadorian man was in accordance with U.S. and international law and fully complied with the agency's tactics and procedures.

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