Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

Pocket pistols are designed on the principle of compromise: they are as small as practical, as light as practical and only have enough mechanical margin to operate when everything is clean, in line, and fed the ammunition to which it is accustomed. The pressure of the real world works...

They toss around AR-15 “ballistics” as though it is one, constant set of figures. Practically, the figures oscillate in all directions with length of barrel, shape of projectile and what the bullet strikes when it comes out of the muzzle. Next is a numbers-first examination of the real-world ballistics behavior...

A rifle that had it yesterday and can not to-day remain with the usual company, is often not one that is ill in one explosive failure. It is more frequently a pile of little mechanical and maintenance variables which humbly sneak up through the paper until they are felt. The...