Daily Archives: Jun 29, 2026

A defensive handgun round can look convincing on a chart and still create problems when clothing, short barrels, recoil, or household walls enter the equation. That gap between lab confidence and real-world behavior is where many bad ammo decisions start. Modern testing has made the conversation better, but not simpler....

Army sidearms rarely get the same spotlight as rifles, but they reveal something just as important: how the service defines a last-resort weapon. Every major change in a handgun points to a bigger shift in doctrine, ammunition, manufacturing capacity, or the practical reality of putting a pistol into many...

No map can turn a nuclear exchange into a manageable scenario. Still, geography, target density, wind patterns, and access to shelter all shape how severely different parts of the United States would be affected by radioactive fallout. That is why some states appear again and again in modeling discussions: they...