Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Charles Mitchell

The AR-15 Timeline Everyone Gets Wrong From Vietnam to Today’s Range

The AR-15 is flattened into one back story: Vietnam, a military rifle, then a civilian one. The factual turning points of the platform, the change of ownership, the revision of the engineering process, and the silent transformation of a trademark into a generic term are lacking in that story. The...
Charles Mitchell

9 Firearm Design Choices That Quietly Ruin Accuracy Under Stress

On a square range, accuracy can be on a face value like a pure marksmanship challenge. It turns into a systems problem under stress: the way the gun feeds, locks up, cycles and triggers the hands and eyes of the shooter. Most of the accuracy killers that are worst are...
William Harrison

5 Metal Sidearms That Still Hold Their Place With Serious Shooters

Polymer frames establish the contemporary standard of duty pistols, although, they did not erase the motivation why metal frames received their reputations in the initial place. Once a handgun is required to operate hard, predictable at high speed, and able to endure less-than-ideal conditions, the time-honored benefits of rigidity...