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Design releases, mechanical test results, and announcements.
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June 5, 2026
The Trigger Kicker
The Trigger Kicker is an entirely new active reset trigger I have invented and developed for the AR-15 platform. I believe it is now the simplest repeat reset trigger in existence, even more so tha…
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February 14, 2026
I Have Been Sued, Here Are the Details
Lawsuit update as of 2/14/2026: I was sued for several counts of alleged patent infringement along with a number of other allegations on December 23rd 2025. Plaintiff alleges that my Super Safety d…
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March 17, 2025
Mechanical Test Results of Filled PA and PET 3D Printing Filaments
This is a repost of the original paper available on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@hoffmantactical:3/Mechanical-Test-Results-of-Filled-PA-and-PET-3D-Printing-Filaments Summary Eight Polyamide and thre…
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August 13, 2022
Testing the Taulman Glass FIber Nylon
I recently conducted a series of mechanical tests on the Taulman3D Glass Fiber Nylon. The goal was to understand how annealing effected the properties of the Nylon. I also tested how water absorpti…
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February 25, 2022
Upcoming Products and Update
Welcome back to Hoffman Tactical! Today, I’ll update you on upcoming products, and what’s been going on here at Hoffman Tactical. Obviously the big thing that has been going down is the situation s…
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February 4, 2022
A Look at the 3D Printed “FRT” Trigger
A “Forced Reset” style trigger allows the operator of the firearm to pull the trigger faster. They are pretty cool, and completely legal. Recently I decided to design a 3D printed conversion kit th…
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December 26, 2021
The AR-9 Super Lower V1.0
You asked for it. And it has arrived. I released the V1.0 AR-9 Super Lower a few days ago. Here are the details. My goal for the project was to have a 9 MM lower that would work with Glock magazine…
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November 17, 2021
V3.0 – A significant improvment in the Super Lower
The most distinct and unique feature of the Super Lower is the large support rib on the left side of the lower. This greatly increases the strength and stiffness of the buffer tower. Unfortunately…
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October 24, 2021
Gen 2 Stock has been Released!
The original stock worked quite well. But it had one mortal flaw – It was not modular. The new Gen 2 Stock System fixes this problem. The new stock has three Neck types and four Butt types as well…
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September 28, 2021
V2.8 AR-15 Super Lower and other designs in the works.
I’d like to let you know that V2.8 is out, though it’s not that exciting of a release. The primary improvement is that the support rib has been redesigned to allow the use of Bear Creak Armory slic…
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August 14, 2021
Commenting on the proposed ATF rule(s)
With the deadline looming only a few days away, time to comment on the two proposed rules that the ATF has published grows short. In the past comments from the public have been effective at deterri…
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July 20, 2021
V2.7 Released and a general update
If you head over to the Downloads page you will find that V2.7 of the AR-15 Super Lower is now available. V2.7 is very similar to V2.6 with a few minor improvements. The more important ones are: Th…
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June 24, 2021
Site is ready!
The downloads and products are added and working. I will be adding more info under the “learn” pages. A top priority now is getting instructional material done so that users know how to use the Bus…
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June 22, 2021
Welcome To The New Site!
It will still be a couple more days before I have everything edited and ready to go. So until then, check out Hoffman Tactical’s back-up site at hoffmantactical.org.
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