Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

The AR-15 creates confusion because it is something that appears as one and then acts like a system due to this one reason. To one of the owners is a lightweight carbine with a red dot; to the other is a long, heavy-barreled rifle that is adjusted to slow-firing...

The story of the infantry rifle in America has long been presented as a series of celebrities, when the true through-line is engineering pressure: interchangeable parts, ammunition scaled, tactics forced to change, when the effective envelope of the rifle suddenly increased. Early frontier rifles of specialty marksmen, the modular 5.56...

Some guns will be legends since they ran and continued running. People are turned into legends because they showed precisely where the design optimism collides with the reality: bad ammo, production drift, clumsy controls, and people carrying out everyday user activities. It is not a win Tour of past errors....