Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Disputes on the topic of the best Army pistol tend to degenerate into caliber and nostalgia. What is more useful is influence: the handguns that compelled the institution to redefine assumptions regarding training, logistics, safety, and what a typical sidearm should be capable of withstanding. In the whole century-long history...

Handgun arguments are fond of circling around the issue of stopping power, but the mechanics of the real world keep hauling the discussion back to an ugly fact: a bullet must hit something meaningful. In test culture, that typically is diagrammed into the 12-18 inches of penetration by the...

The question of handgun caliber normally goes to the same grave: shot placement. True--but not till we get the bullet to some thing it is going to get at. The practical floor in defence is that penetrating which may even be apparent post clothing, angles of embarrassment, and bone....