Guest Writer: Kenzie Fitzpatrick The Smith & Wesson 929 is not your grandfather’s revolver. It’s a different kind of beast that has the fit, finish, and attention to detail you’d expect from a Smith & Wesson Performance Center model. It comes equipped with a custom-tuned action, a removable compensator, and two extra rounds compared to the […]
SIG Sauer may be a well-known name in the firearms industry today, but it didn’t start as one. Instead, Friedrich Peyer im Hof, Heinrich Moser, and Conrad Neher founded the company in Switzerland in 1853 to produce wagons and railway cars. It’s a long road from wagons to handguns, but that’s part of the fun […]
Guest Writer: Kenzie Fitzpatrick There’s a brutal difference between fact and fiction. The things we see in the entertainment industry may look cool on screen but have no basis in reality. For example, in Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Richard Hannay’s (Robert Donat) life is saved when a hymnal in his pocket stops an assassin’s bullet. […]
Stopping power, or “knockdown power,” is a projectile’s ability to incapacitate a target, whether animal or human. While almost everyone’s heard the term, understanding exactly what it means can be tough. All the confusion surrounding stopping power is mainly due to Hollywood’s unrealistic depictions of what happens when someone gets shot. In TV and movies, […]
Author: Jacob Long “FREEDOM!” was the blue-faced battle cry of the Sig P320 creators led by designer Adrian Thomele. Or at least, that’s how I like to envision them, painted up like extras in Braveheart sitting around a boardroom table. Their cry was not necessarily a call to freedom from tyranny, but rather freedom of […]
