Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

Charles Mitchell

6 FBI Gel Tests That Expose Why “Stopping Power” Myths Persist

The reason why the stopping power talk survives is that it is more tangible: the larger the bullet, the larger the impact. The thing is that handgun terminal performance is graceless, erratic, and extremely reliant on what the bullet must traverse before it can ever reach something of any...
Charles Mitchell

The AR-15 Timeline Everyone Gets Wrong From Vietnam to Today’s Range

The AR-15 is flattened into one back story: Vietnam, a military rifle, then a civilian one. The factual turning points of the platform, the change of ownership, the revision of the engineering process, and the silent transformation of a trademark into a generic term are lacking in that story. The...
Charles Mitchell

9 Firearm Design Choices That Quietly Ruin Accuracy Under Stress

On a square range, accuracy can be on a face value like a pure marksmanship challenge. It turns into a systems problem under stress: the way the gun feeds, locks up, cycles and triggers the hands and eyes of the shooter. Most of the accuracy killers that are worst are...