Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

A handgun does not occupy much of the center of doctrine in Army service, but it also turns over and over again into a tool that has to be operational in those situations when all other tools have been lost, become unavailable, or gone wrong. That strain--between secondary weapon...

AR-15 talk can be hard to understand, similar to hardware talk barrels, optics, triggers, and what everybody is doing. The debts are more likely to come in a less noticeable form: definitions, relocations of classification, the small print that trails the platform across state boundaries and into cyberspace. The source...

The 9x19mm was not made the default cartridge of a handgun by chance. It was early, fitted into service-size pistols, without causing them to be inconvenient, and continued to become better as the art of firearms and ammunition improved. A fragment of the narrative is contained within the guns themselves:...