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New Shooters Series: Grip and Trigger

With 2 million first-time gun owners joining the shooting community in the first half of this year, we have asked our Team Shadow to create a series of introductory videos for new shooters. The first of this series was an introduction to safety with our CEO, Trevor Roe–you can watch that video here. In this […]

New Shooters Series: Safety

Recent events with Covid-19 have led to lots of folks purchasing their first firearm. If you’re new to shooting, welcome! This video is meant to be an introduction to gun ownership with some safety tips and an overview of how striker-fired, semi-automatic pistols work. We’re demonstrating this on an MR920 fresh out of the box.

MR920: How to Mount your Optic (Optic Ready Slides ONLY)

This post is about how to install an optic onto the new patent pending optic cut featured on the MR920. For instructions for MR918 models, see this one. MR920 Optic Mounting (Optic Ready Slides ONLY) Overview: The patent pending Shadow Systems optic mounting system provides a low profile, high strength, multi-brand optic mount for your […]

How Does the MR920 Optic Cut Work?

Coming to you from SHOT Show 2020, where we are talking about how our new patent pending optic cut on the MR920 works. A few of you asked questions about how the optic stays in a rigid mounted position, so we’re going to explain that now. When you take a look at what the optic […]

MR918 vs MR920: What did we change and why?

We’re behind the scenes at SHOT Show 2020, taking a look at the MR918 and the MR920 side by side. The MR918 was doing really well in the market, but we heard some feedback from some folks who had requests for some improvements. Let’s take a closer look at the way we’ve improved the […]

Why did we choose PMAGs?

This is a question we get asked quite a bit. It seems like some folks don’t particularly care for them, but we like them for quite a few reasons. It’s important to note that all of the reliability testing we’ve ever done on our guns has been shot with PMAGs, including the 7,500 rounds we […]

Burning Up Ammo at SHOT Show Industry Range Day

What happens at the end of SHOT Show Range Day when you still have 500 rounds of ammo left over? Well, if you’re with Team Shadow, it becomes a race against the clock to burn it up fast. Let’s see if we can shoot 500 rounds in 500 seconds. A couple of disclaimers for this […]

Behind the Scenes of SHOT Show Industry Range Day

Going behind the scenes of Shot Show 2020 starts here–we’re coming to you from Media Range Day. Today, we are introducing the media and the public to our newest pistol, the MR920. There are lots of great new features on the MR920, but the one we are most excited to show you today is the […]

Shadow Systems Releases New Compact Multi-Role MR920 9mm Pistol

Plano, TX (January, 2020) – American-based pistol manufacturer Shadow Systems will release a new compact-sized production pistol, the MR920, at this year’s SHOT Show. Following the overwhelming success of the MR918, launched in January 2019, Shadow Systems has decided to iterate faster than the competition and launch new improvements now. Like the previous product line, […]

Technical Tuesday: MR918 vs Squib Load

Our first Technical Tuesday in a while, we’re taking a look at a customer’s gun that was damaged by a squib load. We’ll first talk about what a squib load is and how to identify it when you’re shooting and then we will take a look at how the gun held up to being blown […]