Go Big or Go Home: A Look at the Science Behind Firearm Wound Potential

Before beginning this piece on wound potential of various calibers, I opened a few notebooks and studied the subject again. I ignored reams of paper put out by gun writers but rather concentrated on the works by gentlemen with titles such as doctor, colonel or general. Vincent DiMaio,  Dr Martin  Fackler, John T. Thompson and … 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 Goliath to take the terrible giant’s head. He then revered the blade in the tabernacle at Nob for years afterward. A bit closer to home, … Read more