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Revolver or semi-auto for your first handgun?
Every few weeks a guy walks into the gun shop on Fifth Street near me, first time buyer, and asks…
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Ruger LCP Max review: pocket 9mm done right
Sat behind a guy at a gun shop counter on Route 9 outside Poughkeepsie a few months back while he…
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CZ 75 SP-01 review: the double-stack that started it
I had a range officer at a Wisconsin indoor range tell me last winter that the CZ 75 SP-01 on…
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Turkey calling for beginners: what actually works
Six-thirty on a cold morning off a logging road outside a friend’s lease in central Missouri, I called too much.…
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Browning Buck Mark review: the .22 that never quits
Ask ten guys behind the counter at a busy indoor range which .22 pistol they’d hand a nervous first-timer, and…
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Gun Reviews
Walther PDP review: the ergonomics finally match the trigger
I had a range officer at a local indoor place ask me last month why I kept coming back with…
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Best shotguns for home defense: what I’d actually rack at 2 a.m.
Three-seventeen in the morning, a call about a possible break-in on a street I won’t bother naming here, and the…
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Sig Sauer P320 XCompact review: the middle child that makes sense
Ran into a guy at the counter of a shop off Route 9 last month, trying to decide between a…
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Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro review: the micro-compact that fits like a compact
Fifteen rounds of flush-fit 9mm in a gun that’s barely bigger than a Glock 43X. That number is why the…
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Best holsters for appendix carry: seven that actually work
I switched to appendix carry about nine years ago, back when I was still working patrol and needed something that…
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