Iain Harrison

6 days ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

I first met Tom in 2011 at the MGM Ironman 3-gun match, a legendary, high round count blast fest in the Idaho desert. We bullsh*tted between stages, hit it off, and the bromance continues to this day. At the time, he’d just returned from a deployment, and was 230 pounds of tattoos and hate, the archetypal Special Forces senior NCO who’d been blown up twice and shot once, recovering and returning to duty each time. Evidently, the only thing that could kill Tom … was Tom.

3 weeks ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

Three distinct things Eugene Stoner and Randy Luth have in common: initial careers as precision machinists, zeal for the AR platform, and the knowledge and experience to advance the rifle’s technology. Yet while Stoner designed the AR-15 and the AR-10, Luth — for nearly 40 years — has served as a driving force for not only improving upon Stoner’s blueprints but redefining public perception surrounding the rifle itself.

1 month ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

Originally created as a homage to Stoner’s other design, the BRN-180 has undergone not so much an evolution, but a caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation. Almost no parts on the Gen 3 version will interchange with previous iterations, but the family lineage is still obvious.

1 month ago | gundigest.com | Iain Harrison

I first met Tom in 2011 at the MGM Ironman 3-gun match, a legendary, high round count blast fest in the Idaho desert. We bullshitted between stages, hit it off, and the bromance continues to this day. At the time, he’d just returned from a deployment, and was 230 pounds of tattoos and hate, the archetypal Special Forces senior NCO who’d been blown up twice and shot once, recovering and returning to duty each time. Evidently, the only thing that could kill Tom … was Tom.

1 month ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

In the summer of 2025, policy changes enacted by the Trump administration slowed the flood of migrants across the U.S./Mexico border to a steady stream. The cartels, in order to protect their income, stepped up their efforts to corrupt local law enforcement in the border region, and where they couldn’t bribe, they intimidated, beefing up their armed security teams.