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The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) has selected the Smith & Wesson M&P15 SBR platform and Gemtech Abyss as its patrol rifle and suppressor of choice, respectively. Officers from the law enforcement agency are already issued M&P9 M2.0s as their primary duty pistol. “This year, 2025, marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Montana Highway Patrol,” said Maj. Chan Barry, Montana Highway Patrol operations commander. “For most of those years our Patrolmen, now Troopers, were armed with a Smith & Wesson revolver or pistol. In addition to the Smith & Wesson M&P9 M2.0 that our Troopers carry on their person, we have…

Today I’ve got something special to share from a recent trip to the Benchmade Knife Company’s facility in Oregon City, Oregon. Having grown up in Oregon and living in the Portland metro area, it’s pretty well known that Portland as a city is a “knife city.” Benchmade is one of many premium knife makers alongside Leatherman, CRKT, and Steelport knives, just to name a few. However, most people don’t know that. That’s why I’m excited to share my recent adventures with you guys at the Portland Knife Center of Excellence. Today, we’ll be talking about my mini adventure at Benchmade,…

OTTO unveils DARKSTAR 1 — a mobile, all-terrain command unit built for rugged environments, delivering advanced communications to the edge of operations. Built on the Polaris Xpedition ADV 5 platform, DARKSTAR 1,OTTO’s entry into the vehicle-based systems market, integrates a configurable suite of technologies, including dual-network Cradlepoint cellular, low-earth-orbit satellite, GPS tracking (for vehicle and personnel), multi-band UHF/VHF radios, inter-team P2P links, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, and more. Zero-profile communication antenna arrays reduce exposure and preserve stealth in confined or obstructed environments. “Our goal with DARKSTAR 1 was to extend OTTO’s legacy ofperformance into mobile command systems, delivering a compact, agile…

I think that I may have made a terrible mistake, and I hope that you can help. For some time, I have been reloading 9 mm ammunition for my Mossberg MC2c pistol so I could practice and shoot more as a means of offsetting the high cost of ammunition. All was going well until I was firing multiple shots on multiple targets while training, and I had what I think was a squib load followed in rapid succession by a full-power round. The slide came back about a quarter inch and stopped. After having tried several types of immediate action,…

I don’t know if I will go back and try to recreate my “Know Your Knives” on the Yakut knife, but this example from Kizer makes me consider it. Not going to go out of my way to get one myself, but if one landed near me I would be happy to test it. Wikipedia describes the Siberian Yakut thusly… The Yakutian knife (Yakut: саха быһаҕа, romanized: saxa bıhağa), sometimes called the Yakut knife, is a traditional knife of the Yakuts (an ethnic group from the Sakha Republic (or Yakutia), region of Siberia), used for working with wood, hides, skins, fish…

Station 150 by LOFT – Now Available Via Kickstarter Developed by Caleb Crye to keep sensitive equipment organized and out of the dirt, the LOFT Station 150 converts from a rolling duffle to workstation in seconds. Some of you may have seen Jeff Provenzano of Team MultiCam on the road using the Station 150 where it’s drawn a lot of interest. The Station 150 can be internally configured for a variety of applications including weapons and equipment transport and maintenance as well as drone and recce work. Offered in Dark Olive, Fire Red, and Jet Black, Station 150 is now…

The words “shot placement is king” have been uttered so much they’ve become a cliché. It’s not that the phrase is incorrect, but more that it’s gone the meaningless rote way of “slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” In some ways it doesn’t matter anyway because — in a somewhat humorous twist — it turns out we were all taught incorrectly about shot placement. Hundreds and even thousands of training hours shooting center mass on various targets haven’t exactly been a waste, but they might have formed bad habits when it comes to self-defense. This is why a solid grasp of…

CHICAGO – Aug. 6, 2025 – Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) has completed its acquisition of Silvus Technologies Holdings Inc. (“Silvus”), a global leader in mission-critical mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET), based in Los Angeles, California.  Silvus’ MANET technology is designed to support frontline operations in the most challenging and contested environments, enabling highly secure data, video and voice communications without the need for fixed infrastructure. Their devices mesh together to establish large, scalable and self-healing networks that adapt to continuous mobility. These robust mobile networks connect people, devices and other nodes over distance and at scale, and seamlessly support bandwidth-intensive technologies…

Support us! GearJunkie may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More In the 3 years since REI’s first store unionized in 2022, the outdoor retailer has repeatedly said that unions aren’t “necessary or beneficial” for REI employees. And when REI issued company-wide raises from 2022 to 2024, unionized employees were left out. So, it’s a significant victory for union organizers that REI Co-op has announced the start of contract negotiations with the 11 stores that have unionized since 2022. The August 1 announcement said REI will create a “national bargaining structure to inform store-level collective…

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