The market for weapon lights and optics has become flooded with domestic and foreign products. When a manufacturer is organic to the United States, it is always well received, but when the products are engineered and manufactured domestically with some overseas manufacturing, it is a noteworthy achievement. Viridian Weapon Technologies’ weapon optics and other accessories are nearly completely indigenous from start to finish, with a small part of their production overseas to keep costs down. The green machine is draped in red, white, and blue.

Photo Of The Day: Czech gun manufacturing brings a particular pragmatism to carbine design. PERUN Arms, building on the Czech Republic’s 150-year weapons production heritage, has spent the last decade refining their Perun platform. The result of that thinking is the Perun 9 , a straightforward 9mm PCC that strips away flash in favor of function. This is their first mention ever here at TFB, so here we go with some more details.

I like to actually use my guns, and I typically don’t try to “baby” them. While most of the time I don’t go out of my way to outright mistreat them, they’re tools after all; I am far from the type to have any safe queens, let alone firearms that don’t get rotated in and out of use a couple of times a year. This is the same case for the Henry Golden Boy in .22 LR , which I covered in an earlier Rimfire Report . There’s something about that Brasslite receiver that makes me want to treat it a little better than the rest of the collection when it’s on duty, so when 1791 Gunleather sent over a couple of pieces from their 1791 Hunt collection , I was more than excited. These pieces are built specifically for lever guns like the Golden Boy, which is a platform that I often feel goes ignored when it comes to accessories, so today I figured it was worth finding out if the leather treatment actually earns its keep with my typical style of treatment, or if it just looks nice in pictures. Either w…

Wilson Combat’s America 250th Limited Edition 1911 series arrives at exactly the kind of inflection point where sentimental value and mechanical integrity happen to overlap. This isn’t a rushed commemorative gun built around an anniversary date; it’s a company with 49 years of 1911 manufacturing depth saying, “Here’s what we’ve learned, and here’s the platform that deserves it.”

SK Guns’ Conquerors Series just moved into Rome, and the third installment is worth the attention if you’re the type who collects firearms as historical documents. The Julius Caesar 1911 takes one of the most transformative military figures in Western history and locks his legacy into a Colt 1911 platform through meticulous engraving that reads like a military history lesson written in steel.