Springfield Armory's SOCOM 16 CQB—Close-Quarters Battle—rifle features a single-piece Archangelcomposite stock, a five-position adjustable shoulder stock, an AR-type removable pistol grip and QD sling cups. Additional components include two sighting systems as well as accommodations for a third sighting option. Springfield's SOCOM 16 CQB is the most compact, versatile M1A rifle to date that brings in the most recent expectations of performance.
April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Today, exhaustive research of primary accounts and surviving firearms and artifacts give us a clearer picture of what really happened.
On April 19, 1775, simmering tensions between Great Britain and her colonists erupted into warfare with the engagements at the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.
Watchtower Firearms, a veteran-owned firm based in Texas filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in late February 2025 to restructure and re-organize its financial structure.
The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to revolution was paved long before gunfire erupted on that cold April morning in Massachusetts.