Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Few rifles have been the subject of as much confident misinformation as the AR-15. The design is well enough understood, but in casual conversation, the rifle remains a mysterious object partly because it resembles a military carbine, and partly because its modularity allows the same receiver to be adorned...

What is called accurate on paper and trustworthy in the field are not synonymous. The cartridges which get the real confidence of people do so the difficult way: they give consistent velocities, remain manageable on the recoil, and retain a useful track once the wind and distance begin to...

Army sidearms do not often fight off wars, but they do often make soldiers believe in something when all the rest gives way, or jams, or runs out. In more than two and a half centuries the institutional handgun has evolved in single-shot flintlocks to high capacity 9 mm...