Author: Steve Coulston

Steve is a former United States Naval Special Warfare Combat Crewman (SWCC), NRA Life Member and has been a firearms enthusiast for over 30 years. Steve is a writer and photographer focusing on the testing and evaluation of new products and has a natural gift for breaking things. He resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children enjoying the shooting sports and the great outdoors.

Tavor Transformation

If you are looking for a compact rifle that provides short to medium target engagement capabilities in close quarters, urban warfare and open terrain, is battle proven and available to the average, good guy, Joe Blow civilian, the IWI Tavor may be just what the doctor ordered. The 5.56x45mm NATO chambered bullpup rifle sports a chrome lined, 16-inch 1:7 twist cold hammer forged barrel, long stroke piston design and is 100% ambidextrous. It comes in a variety of configurations, colors and can be converted to different calibers and left or right hand eject.

The Arsenal Democracy Phenomenon

Hearing a “click” when you expect a “BANG” is probably the worst sound a war fighter can hear in the middle of a firefight with enemy combatants closing in. Having a gun go down with a catastrophic failure is one way to get the blood flowing and push the pucker factor meter off the charts. James Pechi and David Pavlick know all too well what happens when Murphy rears his ugly head. They have experienced it first hand, multiple times throughout their Special Forces carriers. Throughout Pechi and Pavlick’s combined 25 years of combat experience with the 7th Special Forces Group they have experienced just about every type of failure or malfunction the M4 carbine has to offer. James and David have endured the carnage of war together. It was through this bond, this brotherhood that Arsenal Democracy was forged.