{"id":30935,"date":"2026-11-13T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/steen-defense-a-new-swedish-ar-with-clever-innovations\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:00:25","slug":"steen-defense-a-new-swedish-ar-with-clever-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/steen-defense-a-new-swedish-ar-with-clever-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Steen Defense: A New Swedish AR with Clever Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LgYYKYY0zc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Steen Defense is a fairly new Swedish company that was started with the idea of rebuilding arms production in Sweden. They have an AR-type rifle design with a couple interesting innovations, namely a solution to upper\/lower fit and a way to segregate barrel and handguard attachment while still using standard AR barrels. It&#8217;s pretty cool, and while they were not chosen for the new Swedish Army rifle procurement they are attracting customers in law enforcement and international military spaces.<\/p>\n<p>6.5mm CBJ video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/90ECrL_4GPc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/90ECrL_4GPc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steen Defense is a fairly new Swedish company that was started with the idea of rebuilding arms production in Sweden. They have an AR-type rifle design with a couple interesting innovations, namely a solution to upper\/lower fit and a way to segregate barrel and handguard attachment while still using standard AR barrels. It&#8217;s pretty cool,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/steen-defense-a-new-swedish-ar-with-clever-innovations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steen Defense: A New Swedish AR with Clever Innovations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}