Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

A military sidearm rarely decides a campaign on its own. What it does reveal, often with unusual clarity, is what an army thinks matters at close range: power, capacity, safety, maintenance burden, and the hard reality that a handgun is usually the last tool left when everything else goes...

Maps that rank “safe” states in a nuclear fallout scenario can look deceptively simple. The underlying science is not. Fallout patterns depend on where a weapon detonates, whether it strikes the ground, how much dust is lofted into the cloud, and what the atmosphere is doing hour by hour. That...

Polymer handguns dominate modern issue lists, but they did not erase the logic behind older steel and alloy pistols. In specialist circles, certain metal-framed designs still matter because weight, balance, trigger systems, and long established maintenance knowledge continue to solve practical problems. That staying power is not really about...