Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Police sidearms never were a gun in the belt. Each radical change in handgun design has compelled agencies to redefine the qualification processes, re-evaluate low-light operations, and restructure equipment packages via holsters, lights, and currently optics. The next thing is a discussion of handgun designs that altered the way...

In 2026, the service-pistol world is starting to be even more homogenized: polymer frames, striker-fired triggers, and accessory rails that presuppose a weapon light and an optic. But in the closed ranks, the dinosaurs of metal-framed pistols are still part of the training stock, mission-ready packages, and armories of...

The Sahara is now like a geologic warning sign: 3.6 million square miles of heat and wind and low precipitation. The rock paintings of the desert, however, hippos, giraffes, swimmers, long suggested that this terrain was once in many ways very different, that the sand is lumbering over some...