Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

James Thompson

AR-15 Misconceptions That Keep Spreading and What the Mechanics Actually Say

Not many machines are discussed as a personality. The AR-15 does the AR-15 does it, frequently, by the people who debate each other crosswise, playing on the same three letters (AR) to represent completely different things. To readers used to caring about the way systems work, some of the most...
James Thompson

9mm or .45 ACP? 8 Real-World Tradeoffs That Decide Performance

The argument of 9mm vs. it isn’t that the 9mm is inferior to the .45 ACP, but it continues to hit the reality limits: magazine geometry, recoil control, suppression physics, and when the bullets actually strike intermediate materials rather than clean gel. Terminal-performance gap was reduced by modern loads. The...
Charles Mitchell

AR-15 Myths That Quietly Break Rifles and Create Real Legal Risk

The AR-15 is the gun that enjoys conscientious recommendations, and the media platform favors prudent reading over arrogance. One or two enduring assumptions, regarding the meaning of the AR, the interchangeability of its different parts, and what modular actually means, were constantly reoccurring in more or less the same...