Elite Shotguns of HK: Benelli vs Fabarm HK has long been on the cutting edge of small arms in the western world and their marketing partnership choices in shotguns often reflect thoughtful innovation along with the use of proven technologies. For most of the last thirty years, HK has partnered with the Italian firm Benelli to market that company’s combat and hunting shotguns.   Both respected names in the gun business profited from this partnership which only recently dissolved with Benelli

Armalite AR180B Armalite, formerly Eagle Arms and formerly before that Essential Arms has been a company in transition from an AR15 clone parts maker, to gun maker to finally purchasing the right to the Armalite name and reviving what had been one of the more interesting product offerings from the defunct division of an aerospace company. The original AR180 was designed as a lower cost and improved alternative to the M16 rifle in service in the late 1960s.  By the

FN 5.7 Pistol Steeped in controversy over its release to the public, the innovative FN 5.7 (pronounced Five-Seven) is aptly named for its unique cartridge.   This numeric naming system reminds me of the way SAAB changed the names of their cars in the late 1990s.   Like the SAAB 9-3 Viggen is to sports cars,  the 5.7 pistol is an item of entirely European concept and design that departs from the ordinary. The 5.7 pistol is not anything like any pistol previously

Saiga Rifles Another economy import from EAA (European American Armory), the Siaga rifles represent what is probably the best bargain in AK derivatives currently on the US market. Engineered to comply with Clinton era restrictions placed on the Russian Federation with even fewer “evil” features than other imports as a condition of securing loans, the Saiga rifle is a highly modified derivative of the AKM rifle.   Unlike other AK derivatives where they were primarily military rifles slightly modified to comply