Daily Archives: Jun 27, 2026

Handgun caliber arguments tend to get loud long before they get precise. Once testing moves past folklore and into gel, short barrels, clothing barriers, recoil control, and ignition reliability, a clearer pattern appears: some handgun rounds ask the shooter to accept a very small performance cushion. That does not...

Striker-fired pistols dominate modern handgun conversations, but the trigger is still where the terminology gets sloppy. One group treats striker systems as inherently inferior, another treats them as the default answer, and both often collapse different mechanical designs into one catchall label. The better way to read a pistol...

“Modern” is an overused label in handgun talk. In the 9mm world, it means something narrower and far more important: a pistol changed what shooters, armorers, agencies, or concealed-carry users started expecting as normal. Some designs pushed capacity higher. Others changed materials, trigger systems, ergonomics, or the balance between...