Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Accuracy is rewarded in firearms engineering. Gun law does, but with other tolerances, other failure modes and consequences that appear in court records rather than on a bench. In the United States, ordinary decisions on the location of a gun, its storage, and transfer may turn into a criminal...

The line, "Any caliber works with perfect shot placement" has been able to outlive itself because it has an element of truth. The mechanical issue is that defensive shootings are not usually going to provide the perfect, and the cartridge must bear the remainder of the load. Current defense...

The size of concealed-carry pistols continue to dwindle, whereas the performance is heading the opposite way. It is not difficult to find good defensive ammo and it is difficult to match a load with what a particular carry gun can actually produce with the barrel length, size of grip,...