Daily Archives: Jun 27, 2026

The U.S. Army has never treated the handgun as a glamour weapon. A sidearm has usually been a backup, a specialist’s tool, or an institutional compromise carried when rifles, crew-served weapons, vehicles, or cramped workspaces made something smaller necessary. That is exactly why Army handguns matter. The pistols that...

Handgun caliber debates tend to lean on energy figures, bullet diameter, and decades-old talk about “stopping power.” Modern testing pushed that language aside. What matters more is whether a round can penetrate deeply enough, hold together, expand when it should, and stay manageable in the handgun actually being carried. That...

The AR-15 is one of the most recognized rifle platforms in the United States, but recognition has not produced clarity. The design sits at the intersection of branding, mechanics, customization, and law, which makes it unusually easy for bad shorthand to spread faster than solid information. That confusion matters because...