Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

Ballistic gelatin remains one of the most useful tools in terminal ballistics. It is standardized, repeatable, and transparent enough to show penetration depth, bullet upset, and wound track behavior in a way that can be measured from one test to the next. That usefulness also creates confusion. The FBI...

Polymer pistols changed handgun design by trimming weight, simplifying production, and making high-capacity sidearms easier to carry all day. None of that erased the appeal of steel at the firing line. On the range, the priorities shift. Comfort through long strings, controllability, heat management, durability over heavy round counts,...

The 9mm pistol did not become the dominant handgun format by accident. Its rise came from a long chain of design decisions: how a cartridge feeds from a magazine, how a grip fits the hand, how a trigger system balances speed and safety, and how a service sidearm survives...