Billed as Canada’s largest gun show, TACCOM is set for 6-8 September in Ontario.
See the details at www.taccomcanada.com.
Archive for August, 2019
TACCOM – Canada’s Tactical and Competitive Shooting Sports Show
Thursday, August 8th, 2019Magpul Megablend 20th Anniversary T-shirt
Thursday, August 8th, 2019In 1999, Richard Fitzpatrick founded Magpul with the clear mission of “Providing innovation to the individual in the shortest time.” After twenty years of annoying the establishment, we’re just getting started. We’re celebrating our 20th with an update to a design from ten years ago that still looks great today.
The logo is updated with Roman numerals, and the Megablend comes from the t-shirt’s super comfy 50% Cotton, 38% Polyester, 12% Rayon content.
Avon To Acquire Ceradyne For $91 Million
Thursday, August 8th, 2019Specifically, Avon Rubber PLC, best known for their CBRN protective masks, will be purchasing 3M’s armor protection business which includes production of helmets and armor plates. It operates three sites within the US and has about 280 employees.
3M developed the Integrated Head Protection System for the US Army, it’s latest ground troop helmet. They also manufacture armor plates for military and law enforcement.
Avon sees that this move, “Significantly widens Avon Protection’s product range in the personal protective equipment segment with a leading brand for next generation ballistic helmets and body Armour,” as well as “Deepens our presence in the U.S. and relationship with the U.S. DOD as a key supplier of ballistic helmets and body armour for the Soldier Protection System (“SPS”).”
The acquisition should be complete by the first half of 2020.
Milspec Retail Launches All-New Website + 10% off Storewide
Thursday, August 8th, 2019
Milspec Retail is quickly becoming a go-to destination for high end firearm parts and accessories, providing an extensive and ever-expanding selection of products while maintaining an extremely high quality standard. Free shipping and free returns are available on every order. For the rest of this week through Monday 8/12/19, take an additional 10% off site-wide. Discount is automatically applied to the cart.
Homepage: milspecretail.com
Main Shop: milspecretail.com/shop
Sweet Sweet, Memories You Gave To Me
Thursday, August 8th, 2019I grew up with this thing, but with the release of TC 3-20.40, Training and Qualification, Individual Weapons, it’s a dinosaur.
Rosco Manufacturing Launches New Product Bundle “Sauce Packs”
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019August 2, 2019: Rosco Manufacturing, an American manufacturer of high-quality gun barrels & accessories, is proud to announce the launching of their newly released products – the “Sauce Pack” product bundles. In an effort to deliver the products that customers want & deserve, Rosco has paired their hard working Bloodline barrels along with their Bloodline accessories.
The Rosco “Sauce Pack” bundles were created after direct requests from our customers to provide them with the key components needed for their carbine/ pistol builds at a great combined price. The bundles feature a Bloodline barrel, Bloodline BCG, Bloodline gas block, & Bloodline gas tube. The result is a hand-picked list of parts that will produce results right out of the box. All parts within these kits are designed to synchronize together and create an un-interrupted system that will bring every individual component to its peak performance level. The perfect marriage of all our available Bloodline accessories and our in-house made barrels will make for the ultimate combo in performance and cost savings.
“These components are designed to work perfectly when used together as part of a complete “ignition” system. The parts work to enhance the operation of any carbine/ pistol build that the end user has planned.” – Gabriel Cabrera (Marketing/ Sales Director).
Effective immediately, the following Rosco products are live and for sale:
• 10.5” Sauce Pack. MSRP: $295.95
• 12.5” Sauce Pack. MSRP: $304.95
• 14.5” USASOC Sauce Pack. MSRP: $310.95
• 16” USASOC Sauce Pack. MSRP: $314.95
For more information on Rosco Manufacturing and our products go to www.RoscoManufacturing.com
D3O Announces Partnership with RRDS to Bring Leading Impact Protection Directly to the Defense Market End User
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
D3O has just announced a new partnership with RRDS which will allow end-users in North America to purchase D3O protective defense products directly from RRDS. This partnership will enable rapid fulfilment and greater ordering flexibility for customers. For example, in addition to being able to order full 7- or 9-pad helmet pad systems, customers will have the ability to purchase just one or two replacement helmet pads.
Bill VanMullekom, Senior Vice President at D3O US LLC, says: “We’re delighted to now be able to service individual customers online through our new partnership in addition to better servicing larger customers who require rapid fulfilment and distribution. We’re looking forward to seeing further growth in North America with the help of RRDS.”
This partnership marks a continued commitment to growth from D3O in North America which, over the last two years, has expanded its team and presence in the market.
D3O provides a range of Berry Compliant impact protective products which will become available to the North American market through this new partnership. End-users will have the ability to purchase D3O TRUST LP2 Knee, D3O TRUST Nimbus and D3O TRUST Stealth protection directly from the RRDS online store.
Founded in 2014 and located in Irvine, California, RRDS has a proven track record of delivering top-tier services and assets while focusing on essential matrices such as quality, performance and best value, depending on the unique goals of each customer and the ultimate success of each program. This set of skills and qualifications made them the perfect partner to bring market leading defense products from D3O to North America.
Samir Naqvi, President at RRDS, Inc. stated: “RRDS is eager to see D3O become a staple brand in the defense sector. We plan on leveraging our long-standing relationships with federal agencies and military branches to aid D3O in this venture, utilizing our well-established distribution facility to service the industry. The innovation D3O brings to the market is truly exciting and is serving to advance the world of PPE for the men and women that rely on this gear.”
View the D3O offering on the RRDS website.
View the full Berry Compliant product range from D3O.
D3O has also signed a partnership with TSSI which will service all areas East of Mississippi River.
GORUCK Moves Some Pack Manufacturing Overseas
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019In a very transparent blog post, Founder & CEO of GORUCK, Jason McCarthy took a deep dive into his brand and the reasons why they’re moving the manufacturing of some of the very popular packs overseas.
BLUF – They want to control consumer pricing, but they’re not abandoning US manufacturing altogether. They are quite clear on that.
There are plenty of benefits to American manufacturing: communication with vendors is easier, quality oversight is easier because they’re closer, there are low minimum order quantities (~75 units vs. 1,000 units), moving to market is quicker, and there’s the support of American jobs, which has always been important to me. We intend to continue to support and utilize our American vendors (we have four), but not for the items that represent real scale for us.
This is a dilemma that everyone who manufactures textiles here in the US eventually faces. Unfortunately, our industrial base just isn’t that large. Additionally, labor is much more expensive here in the United States than elsewhere. Hopefully, we will see additional growth in our capacity to manufacture textile products are in the US, alleviating the need to go overseas at least to deal with capacity issues.
GORUCKS’s path forward is all summed up here:
• We’ll continue to build limited edition GR1’s in the USA; Black GR1’s and a couple other colorways will be built overseas (specifically in Saigon) moving forward. Rucker and GR2: same deal. The price on rucks built overseas will be less, so this is in essence an announcement of some (but not all) overseas manufacturing and a price decrease to our core rucksacks.
• For example, GR1’s Built in the USA version has been at $395. The models built in Saigon will be at $295.
• The model for us, USA vs overseas is this: where we can provide more value through customization and limited edition colorways and features, we’ll build those in the USA. We’ll build classic versions to scale, at quality, overseas.
The big post is well worth the read. Check it out here.
