Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

A sidearm that is carried to be put to hard service is less about brand mythology as it is about engineering choices that ensure the gun has a cycling nature when circumstances, handling and maintenance margins get nasty. In the lineages of military and special operations, those not discarded pistols...

Tiny pistols will be easy to conceal, but the tradeoffs are coded into physics. Shorter barrel length alters the job description of the cartridge: with less time to gather momentum, it can make a more disruptive blast as it comes out of the muzzle, and it has less time...

Reliability claims are not difficult to make and difficult to prove. The tests which count are the ones which cause a firearm to malfunction where environmental and round count and handling, as well as support gear is all against the smooth running of a gun. There are some torture tests...