Gun Digest

The majority of my inner circle, both personally and professionally, is comprised largely of gun guys: law enforcement, former operators, veterans, firearms instructors and the like. Birds of a feather, I suppose. All these men and women have an adva

The .30 U.S. Army, or .30-40 Krag—the first United States small-bore military cartridge—was adopted in 1892. The Winchester high-wall single-shot was the first commercial rifle in the United States produced for a small-bore smokeless-powder cartridge

I was once asked if I could only hunt with one bullet, what bullet would it be? Of all the gun-related questions I often get, this is the easiest to answer. It would unquestionably be the Nosler AccuBond. The reason it would be the AccuBond is becaus

I know it might seem trite, but it bears repeating: Half the time, it’s dark out there. And unless you have a forward observer, you can’t hit what you can’t see … at least not without a lot of luck and a lot of legal exposure as well. So, lights on f

We’ve all heard the rule from on high: Th o u shalt not carry handloads in thine everyday carry weapon, lest thou be deemed guilty immediately for saving thine bacon. The concept and reason, loosely stated, is that a prosecuting attorney could possib

A rifle-caliber pistol for EDC? CMMG gets you one step closer. Hot off the Missouri manufacturer’s line comes the Dissent, an AR-style pistol that does away with one of the main components lengthening the design: the buffer tube. CMMG accomplishes th

Sig Sauer’s P365 is one of the most popular carry guns in the country. Since it was introduced, it has quickly outpaced the sales for other guns in the same category and has inadvertently created something of an arms race all its own. Why? Well, it’s

In 2019, Jack Wilson used his concealed handgun to stop a bad guy in a church. Reportedly, the head shot that saved the congregation was taken at about 50 feet. More recently, Elisjsha Dicken saved more citizens when he took out a shooter in a mall a

There’s a line of thought in the everyday carry field that you should not be carrying an expensive, custom pistol. Some object because it might give the DA another stick with which to beat you in the legal proceedings. Others claim that your custom 1

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“I gotta go to the bathroom.” “You gotta go, you gotta go.” So began one of the most iconic scenes in mobster movie history, as Michael Corleone heads to the men’s room, to retrieve a hidden handgun to murder his father’s would-be assassin. The gun?

Fixed blades are common in the woods though far less so on the streets—politics has largely seen to that. Folders are in the pockets of many these days and are somehow considered “less dangerous” than fixed blades. I cannot for the life of me underst

James Madison once sagely conveyed, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Had Madison ever driven a car on a gridlocked freeway he’d likely have concluded the same about the necessity of this article. Neither men nor women are angel

Your goal when using your revolver in a defensive encounter is to make the bad guy stop whatever it is that required you to shoot in the first place. To be clear: you want to stop the threat. Your goal is not to create a fatality—though that is a dis

Sig Sauer has been dominating the carry gun market these past few years, with the P365, P365 XL and other variants providing concealed carriers with small, light guns with large ammunition capacities for their respective sizes. For those who prefer c