Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

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...

"The cartridge that prints small groups can still be the one that turns a sure thing into a long night on a blood trail. In the big-game woods, failure usually doesn’t look dramatic. It looks like a good hit that doesn’t act like one because the bullet didn’t reach...

"The AR-15 platform is a magnet for a certain kind of argument: confident, vocal, and sometimes far removed from the actual firearm. In workshops, on ranges, and in living rooms, the same claims are made about what the firearm is called, what it can do, what the law is,...