Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

The 9mm is the pressure test that the industry has offered on what a fighting handgun should be: it must have manageable recoil, useful terminal performance, and make sense in the real world. And where other cartridges are maintained by image, the 9mm continues to make its own livelihood...

Arctic can seem to a distance still ice, rock and water in the familiar mould. The East Greenland Dickson Fjord was an example of how rapidly this stability may reverse when a mountain slope, a thinning glacier and a narrow basin align in an incorrect manner. A huge rock and...

We do not have any magic handgun cartridge, just tradeoffs that become apparent quickly when stress sets in. The contemporary terms of the debate have changed to not so much knockdown power but to quantifiable performance: reliable ignition, sufficient penetration to critical targets, manageable recoil to make follow-up shots,...