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Beretta’s 1st Hunting Rifle is here, and is both Modular and Straight-Pull

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Using interchangeable barrels, an adjustable trigger, and an innovative two-movement linear ambidextrous reloading system, Beretta has introduced the new BRX1 rifle.

Debuted in Europe on Tuesday, the rifle is interesting in design, with an eight-lug (16-lug in magnum calibers) rotating bolt head, the bolt can be changed from right hand to left without any tools.

Modular, the BRX1 houses its cold-hammer-forged free-floating barrels in a “V” cradle locked in place by two screws and a steel dowel, allowing it to be easily swapped out without the loss of zero of attached optics.

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HK & Howa team up to take on Godzilla, or China, whichever comes first

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The Japanese military on Monday released the details of their first new small arms since the 1980s: a new Howa modular rifle and a variant of the Heckler Koch VP9.

The Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, the country’s army, debuted what will be termed the Type 20 5.56 rifle and the SPF 9mm pistol in future use.

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Czech Army doubles down on CZ-made weapons (duh)

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Czech Republic-based CZUB has secured a significant tender to supply the Czech Army with new rifles, pistols, PDWs, and grenade launchers.

The award, announced by the CZ Group last week, includes 16,000 BREN 2 rifles; more than 21,000 CZ P-10 pistols; 1,600 CZ 805 G1 underslung grenade launchers; and nearly 100 CZ SCORPION PDWs along with training ammunition.

In all, the tender is expected to be worth up to 2.35 billion Koruna ($93 million USD) with deliveries by 2025 and follows up on some 40,000 CZ-made small arms bought by the Czech military in the past decade.

The Czech Army already uses CZ BREN rifles, CZ P-10 pistols, and CZ 805 G1 grenade launchers and are set to get a bunch more by 2025. (Photo: Czech Army)

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BREN, is that you?

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Of course, whenever one says the name, BREN, one thinks of the famous Czech-British (Brno-Enfield) light machine gun that served the Allies well during WWII– and the British Army well into the 1980s.

The more classic BREN gun was a thing of beauty. 

However, in more recent years, CZ has been making the Bren 2, a design that has been well-received in Central Europe. Available over here as a pistol, the gun was introduced on the consumer market in a carbine format last month and I caught one at SHOT Show while in Vegas.

Derived from the company’s select-fire Bren 2, a modular combat rifle in the same vein as the FN SCAR, Remington/Bushmaster ACR (nee Magpul Masada), Radom FB MSBS Grot and Serbu Diabolus, the Czech-made gun uses a carbon-fiber lower and stock mated to a lightweight aluminum upper.

The new CZ Bren 2 Ms Carbine

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