Top 5 NEW Euro Rifles & Shotguns of 2023

Who's doing it? Who's doing the goddamn video? Alright, everybody else get the f*** out then, let us work. Jesus. European gun shows are funny to me mainly because of all of Europe's absolutely cucked gun laws. You can try to take guns away from them, but the spirit of Bubba's gonna prevail. Especially Euro Bubba. Would that be like Bubba Wits? Bubbario? Bubba Weegee? It's always fun to see the clever ways that Euro Bubba tries to stick it to the man. And of course, European manufacturers often do a better job of making guns for the American market than Americans do. And that's all on display at IWA. The shortcuts and the stuff for the American market. I love it. And I gotta say, not kidding at all. But the girls at the show, way better looking also versus shot. So let's talk about the top 5 babes. Top 5 long guns from IWA and Enforcetech this year. IWA being the civilian, hunter, outdoor show. Enforcetech being law enforcement, military. All in Nuremberg. 2023, apparently the year of the .308 designated marksman, rifler, DMR. Because there were 3 big ones there. All made for military contracts. Honorable mentions, Beretta. They introduced the Beretta ARX200 DMR. And my boy, Italian Arnold Schwarzenegger, a.k.a. Luca, gave me the full rundown on it. It's very nice. Basically, updated ARX200. Shoots 1 MOA. Not bad for a piston gun. In Malaysia, for example, during my last training, and at 500 meters with 175 grains ammo, I was around 15 centimeters for the precision. Second, CZ had a DMR version of the Bren II that they're calling the PPS. With similar accuracy and features. And this DMR is being made to replace the aging fleet of Dragunov sniper rifles used by the Czech military. However, the best of them, and the owner of the number 5 slot, is the Steyr DMR. Seeming almost too good to be true. The goal of the new Steyr DMR was to reach a combination of accuracy and lightweight design. And to this end, Steyr's new DMR is a sub-MOA rifle. Allegedly capable of shooting .308, .277 Fury, the NGSW caliber, and 6.5 Creedmoor. It's a piston-driven, AR-type rifle. But it doesn't require a buffer tube to operate, so it has a functional folding stock. It's got four gas settings. A semi-quick tooled barrel change system that requires only a torque wrench to swap out your barrel at home. And it takes us our 25 pattern magazines. Plus, best of all, it weighs less than 7 pounds. Which makes you wonder, if they can do this with a .30 cal gun, what could they do with a .556? One of my most favorite guns for the show. Hopefully, I get my hands on one for TFBTV. Number 4, you guys know it, the good old controversy slot. Because you don't start a list about the top 5 long guns with a weird revolver pistol rifle thingy. But you don't put it at the top of the list either. And even more controversial this year is the fact that we have a tie. Either the Alpha Pro-A Millennium Suppressed 9mm Revolver Carbine. Or the Franklin Arms XR20 5-Shot 20-Gauge Revolver Carbine Shotgun thing. Now, both of these designs are really interesting. And apparently, highly successful in countries where semi-automatics are banned. Which is weird, because depending on your definition of semi-automatic, these guns are pretty much semi-automatic. They just use revolver cylinders. Every time you pull the trigger, the gun fires until it goes empty. Nicely done, Bubba Hondra. Not to mention, they're both really cheap. The Alpha is made in the Czech Republic. They seem to be pretty high quality, with a lot of you international commenters and viewers out there actually saying that these are a good value dollar for dollar. The ability to throw a suppressor on a 9mm version and use moon clips for faster reloads. Nice perks as well, even if the suppressor really doesn't do shit. Doesn't make the gun all that quiet, because you still have that gap between the cylinder and the barrel. Now, the Franklin, the XR20, is indeed a Turkish shotgun. So who knows how long it'll last before the self-disassembly function activates. However, I have to say that initial impressions look pretty good. Brought my buddy Zsiga from Polnarek Tactical with me to look at it. So this is 20 gauge? 20 gauge. The only gauge you need, my brother. You try the trigger. I'm not kidding, it's actually not bad. I think you'll be surprised. Okay, yeah, the trigger is good. It is double action, right? Yeah, and the double action is fine too. Not bad. Yeah, it actually isn't bad. We were both actually really impressed with the double action and single action trigger for the Franklin arms. Even if the cylinder lockup wasn't really that tight. Anyways, for some reason, I've got a weird revolver rifle shotgun boner right now, and I think it's only getting bigger. I mean in the United States, like revolver rifles are getting bigger in the United States. Not my boner, I'm not talking about that. Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these got imported. Now one of the perverse delights of IWA was the hermaphroditic WBP AK-AR. She looks like an AK at first glance, but when you reach under that trigger guard, you'll be surprised to wrap your sweaty fingers around an 11 inch AR-15 magazine. WBP, Polish AK manufacturer. Even though they haven't made ice in Poland since the lady with the recipe died, they can make a damn fine AKM over there. One of the best in the US market, in my opinion. So to see WBP introduce a .223 AK with the ability to accept AR magazines is a welcome surprise. The AK, AR, AR-AK, whatever the hell it is, it will also have a working last round bolt hold open, which is a true hold open. There are bolt hold open AK mags, but those only work through the magazine follower. So when you remove the magazine, the bolt will slam home empty. It's almost pointless. The AR-AK will have a true AK, AR, whatever, true bolt hold open with a bolt release lever, and they actually made the whole package look good. WBP calls this a gun to bring AR guys into the AK world, but honestly, I see the WBP AK, AR as like AK guy methadone. If you do enough of it, maybe you'll get clean with the AR-15 someday. Come on over, AK guys. The water's warm. Speaking of ARs, number two on this list isn't quite an AR. It's the Tank Arms Apricot Krazen. Now, what was it? Slovenian manufacturer Tank Arms might be making one of the best combat rifles on the civilian market today, and I don't say that very lightly. I've seen boutique combat rifles come, I've seen them go over the past 20 years, and it's really difficult for me to get excited about an expensive assault rifle that has no real military adoption, mainly because I don't want to buy into a pre-made legacy gun that's just going to get phased out with hard-to-find parts, accessories, and magazines. But I do think the Tank has what it takes to go the distance, mainly because of its incredible parts compatibility with the AR-15. It uses an AR lower with the buffer tube tower cut off, AR-15 fire control group, AR-15 barrels, AR-15 bolt components, AR-15 gas tube. There's a lot of compatibility, meaning that you'll be able to replace operating and wear components with inexpensive and readily available parts in the U.S. from the AR-15. Additionally, the Perun uses kind of this weird hybrid gas system. It's like DI meets short-stroke piston, kind of like the HK416 and the AR-15 if they, you know, were merged together. Although this increases the weight of the platform probably, I would assume, a little bit, you're going to get increased reliability, more likely than not, from this piston system versus a standard DI system. Now that remains to be seen, because Tank Arms has reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in reviewing one. Maybe we'll do some reliability testing, huh? Even though it's a piston gun, this is still one slim and trim Slovenian, like peak milania. It's well thought out. It's well designed. The AR-15 parts commonality? Brilliant. One of my favorite questions to ask people who just randomly come up and start talking to me at a show is A. Do you have any hard drugs? B. Have you seen anything really cool at the show? On the first day, multiple people told me about the Hera H6 rifle, one of the more unusual things that we've seen here at IWA. Lo and behold, the very next day, when I enter the Nuremberg Conference Center, the very first display by this entrance I walked in. So I can't wait to Hera about it, huh? First, thanks for coming by. We really appreciate your visit here at the booth. First of all, old German dudes at IWA are like the big boobie shot show booth girls to me. Once some elderly Teutonic engineer starts going off on some precision-made firearm that he designed, that he's holding in his hands from spellbound. More or less, the Hera is a high-end German AR-15 bolt-action rifle with a beautiful side-folding stock available in a multitude of colors, one MOA, possibly better accuracy, and it not only takes AR-15 mags, it takes them sideways like a Sten gun or Sharon Stone in a casino. This allows you to get the gun flatter, lower to the ground without sacrificing capacity with a shorter magazine, and you can load the magazine without moving the muzzle or even buddy load it if you get down like that. But face it, the fact of the matter is that having a precise, accurate, compact, and kind of weird bolt-action AR-15 gets you a little warm, doesn't it, boys? It really racks my bolt, if you know what I'm saying. And think about it, in .300 blackout, no action noise, all the boom going down the bore through the baffles. You guys hear how quiet my Ruger American rifle is in that video. This is going to be basically the G-Wagon to the Ruger American's F-150. By the way, our video was one of the most popular of either SHOT Show or EWUP or Enforce Tech, landing almost half a million views. I don't care if you're disgusted with yourself, but you sat there and you watched a 10-minute-long video about a German bolt-action AR-15. You raunchy little monkeys. Guys, think about supporting us on Subscribestar, Utreon, or Patreon. We are primarily viewer-supported, so we need you. Thanks for watching, as usual. Stay tuned. We are done with our EWUP and Enforce Tech coverage for this year, but we'll be back in Nuremberg next year. See you there.