Daily Archives: Jun 29, 2026

The FBI’s penetration benchmark remains one of the most widely discussed yardsticks in handgun ammunition testing. In calibrated 10 percent gelatin, the accepted window is 12 to 18 inches, a standard built to ensure bullets can still reach vital structures after clothing, awkward angles, or intermediate barriers complicate the...

The M60 should have been a museum piece by now. Instead, it remains active in armored fleets across multiple regions, decades after the U.S. military moved on. That long afterlife says less about nostalgia than about engineering margin. Built in large numbers, repeatedly modernized, and centered on a gun...

Some firearms fade into collector interest. Others become reference points that continue to shape training, design, and the way shooters judge everything that comes after. This group falls into the second category. A few introduced mechanical ideas that spread across entire classes of guns. Others changed handling standards, manufacturing...