What Have We Cooking Here?

By Bob Owens

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… yes, Hanukkah and Christmas are nice, but I’m actually talking about the SHOT Show 2016 teasers that are starting to drop, like this one from our friends at Ballistic Radio and Daniel Defense.

John Johnston of Ballistic Radio is known for excruciating torture tests of guns, from the 20,145 rounds he put through a KAC SR-15 without cleaning it, to the 25,104 rounds he shoved down the gullet of the SAI Mk 25 prototype, a gun some people think might have inspired the Sig Legion series.

In other words, if Ballistic Radio and Daniel Defense are going to work together on a project, you can expect a gun that is going to run and run and run… but what, exactly, is it going to be?

As neither John nor Daniel Defense will tell me, I’m reduced to looking at Daniel Defense’s product line and looking at likely additions.

There are already 30 different 5.56 NATO AR-15 variants for Daniel Defense in the M4, Mk12, and Mk18 families, so I’m simply not seeing a niche there.

That leads me to look in the opposite …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms