Kids & Guns: Balancing Readiness and Safety in the Home
Don’t let concerns of violence overshadow the need for creating a truly safe environment in your home. Anyone who lives or works around firearms should strive to remain just a ... Read more
What Was the Best Combat Handgun of World War 2?
Rivers of ink have been spilt over that simple query: what was the best combat handgun used in WW2? With virtually the entire planet aflame, each combatant country threw their ... Read more
The Gun That Changed Absolutely Everything: The German MP43
Certain mechanical contrivances fundamentally transform the human experience. The cotton gin, the jet airplane and the cell phone might be considered typical examples. In each case, the world was a ... Read more
The Power of Love: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye
A black hole is a celestial body so named because its force of gravity is such that not even light can escape. Science fiction authors have depicted such weird phenomena ... Read more
The M3 Grease Gun: The Poor Man’s SMG
Sergeant Eugene Colter slouched immobile alongside 27 of his mates inside the dark cavernous interior of the big C-47 cargo plane as it droned hypnotically through the predawn darkness toward ... Read more
The Wound Report: Always Bring Enough Gun
Our hero was in his early twenties and came dressed in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. He limped into the Emergency Department under his own power complaining of ... Read more
The Thompson Submachine Gun: Eleven Pounds of Pure Cool
How far will the typical American male go to look cool? Well, nowadays he will buy sports cars he can’t afford, put Lord-only-knows what kind of muscle-building supplements into his ... Read more
The Wound Report: Don’t Make Your Weekend Night One to Remember for the Wrong Reasons
Our hero was striking out for a night on the town and felt himself in need of some protection. Back when I worked in an urban emergency room, I was ... Read more
Wehrmacht Heavy Metal: The German MP40 Submachine Gun
We humans have always venerated our weapons. This is but one of mankind’s curiously dark attributes. Some three millennia ago, the Israelite King David used the sword of the Philistine ... Read more
