Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

The story of the infantry rifle in America has long been presented as a series of celebrities, when the true through-line is engineering pressure: interchangeable parts, ammunition scaled, tactics forced to change, when the effective envelope of the rifle suddenly increased. Early frontier rifles of specialty marksmen, the modular 5.56...

Some guns will be legends since they ran and continued running. People are turned into legends because they showed precisely where the design optimism collides with the reality: bad ammo, production drift, clumsy controls, and people carrying out everyday user activities. It is not a win Tour of past errors....

Reliability is seldom a sparkling thing. It appears following the holstering of the pistol wet, when it is dusty, when it is laden with mixed ammunition, and when nevertheless it must perform even when the shooter has done all that he can correctly, and when he has sometimes not. The...