Daily Archives: Jun 29, 2026
9 Gun Features That Look Great Until You Shoot Them
Some firearm features impress on the counter, in photos, or during a dry-fire check. Then live fire starts, and the tradeoffs show up fast. This is where attractive design can collide with recoil, timing, maintenance, and human technique. A feature can still have a real purpose and still prove...
8 Self-Defense Ammo Myths That Ballistics Tests Keep Debunking
Self-defense ammunition attracts more folklore than almost any other corner of handgun technology. Range chatter tends to reduce complex terminal performance into slogans about speed, caliber, or the shape of a recovered bullet, but controlled testing keeps stripping those shortcuts away.
Ballistic gelatin is not a human body, and serious...
How the Army Learned What a Sidearm Must Endure
A military sidearm is easy to describe and much harder to define. The Army’s handgun programs gradually turned that definition into a set of measurable demands, and those demands reached far beyond caliber or brand.
What emerged over decades of testing was a broader engineering lesson: a service pistol had...
