Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Tiny pistols will be easy to conceal, but the tradeoffs are coded into physics. Shorter barrel length alters the job description of the cartridge: with less time to gather momentum, it can make a more disruptive blast as it comes out of the muzzle, and it has less time...

Reliability claims are not difficult to make and difficult to prove. The tests which count are the ones which cause a firearm to malfunction where environmental and round count and handling, as well as support gear is all against the smooth running of a gun. There are some torture tests...

The writing about handguns is usually done in cool-sounding, confident one-liners: “The bigger the better,” just rack the slide, I’ll rise to the occasion. When under pressure, such slogans may run into human performance, mechanical realities and rapidly evolving environments. What next we have is a set of widely-known myths...