Category Archives: YouTube Roundup

Mrgunsngear’s SIG516 G3 Review: Is a Piston AR Actually Worth It?

Mrgunsngear’s SIG516 G3 Review: Is a Piston AR Actually Worth It?

Piston-driven ARs have a reputation for running cleaner and cooler than a standard direct-impingement gun, but that reputation comes with a real price premium — and a real question about whether the tradeoff is worth it outside of a suppressor-heavy or high-round-count use case. Mrgunsngear took the Gen 3 SIG516 to the range to actually […]

MrGunsNGear Walks Into a Store and Buys a Suppressor — No NFA Paperwork

MrGunsNGear Walks Into a Store and Buys a Suppressor — No NFA Paperwork

Suppressors have spent nearly a century behind the NFA’s $200 tax stamp and a months-long wait, so when the process itself changes, it’s worth watching what actually happens at the counter — not just reading about the ruling. MrGunsNGear headed to a real gun counter to find out, walking through what buying a suppressor looks […]

Garand Thumb’s Complete Fighting Rifle Build — What Actually Matters

Garand Thumb’s Complete Fighting Rifle Build — What Actually Matters

Garand Thumb went start-to-finish on what actually belongs on a defensive rifle build — optics, stocks, weapon lights, M-LOK real estate, slings, grips, safeties, magazines, charging handles, buffers, bolts and BCGs — and the framing is the right one: it’s a complete system, not a pile of accessories bolted on because they looked good in […]

TFBTV: Is Your Light Trigger Upgrade Actually a Liability?

TFBTV: Is Your Light Trigger Upgrade Actually a Liability?

TFBTV pushed back on one of the more common upgrade instincts out there: dropping the lightest, shortest trigger you can find into a gun you actually carry or keep for defense. Their point is a fair one — a trigger tuned for a 2-second par-time drill on a square range is a very different tool […]

Brandon Herrera Runs the Ruger AC-556 — What It Means for Mini-14 Owners

Brandon Herrera Runs the Ruger AC-556 — What It Means for Mini-14 Owners

Brandon Herrera got range time with a Ruger AC-556 — the transferable, select-fire sibling of the rifle most people know as the Mini-14 — and made the case for it as, in his words, the only machine gun that actually makes sense for self-defense. It’s a fun watch mostly because of what it says about […]

Hickok45 Shoots an 1880s Rolling Block in .45-70 — Would You Have Hunted Buffalo With It?

Hickok45 Shoots an 1880s Rolling Block in .45-70 — Would You Have Hunted Buffalo With It?

Hickok45 spent this one behind an actual 1880s original rolling-block rifle in .45-70 — not a reproduction, the real period piece — and put the question to viewers straight: would you have trusted this for buffalo hunting? It’s less a review than a genuine appreciation piece for how much rifle a single-shot, 140-year-old action really […]

MrGunsNGear Reviews the Century Arms MKE AP5 SD: Is It the Best MP5 Clone?

MrGunsNGear Reviews the Century Arms MKE AP5 SD: Is It the Best MP5 Clone?

Roller-delayed blowback has a cult following for a reason, and the platform that keeps pulling new shooters into that cult is the HK MP5 lineage — or, more realistically for most budgets, one of its clones. MrGunsNGear’s latest look at the Century-imported, Turkish MKE-built AP5 SD digs into exactly that question: is this the clone […]