I recently purchased a leather sap. For you youngsters, a sap is a leather club filled with a metal rod or bar, lead, sand or other material that can deliver a crippling blow in a close-quarters…

Back in March, I reviewed SIG’s new M17 9mm NATO Military ammunition … and I have been carrying my SIG Sauer P320 M17 as my official duty pistol ever since. The P320 M17 is not only a great military…

Like people, some guns are famous for certain attributes, while others are famous for being famous. I think the long-term fame of Glocks draws a bit from each of those realms, although I’m not sure…

When the Austrian Army adopted the revolutionary Glock 17 as its official duty pistol in 1982, it created quite a stir. Glock set a worldwide standard that other manufacturers have long worked to…

The SIG P365 Air Pistol is the latest addition to the precision air pistol lineup, which now totals 11 SIG replicas. If you’re not familiar with this product line, you should be warned: These aren’t…

God bless the free market! Consumers demanded a better retention holster, and Blackhawk delivered. If you want active retention built right into your outside-the-waistband (OWB) holster but do not…

Concealed Carry Magazine Senior Editor Ed Combs discusses overpenetration in this assessment of Federal’s Hydra-Shok 147-grain 9mm jacketed hollow-point. What does he think after testing? Best-Known…

Back in the 1960s, when I was a kid, you could find advertisements for inexpensive Japanese-made Italian-style pocketknives in various magazines. These knives were smaller-scale replicas of stiletto…

The key to buying a gun on a budget is knowing where you can cut corners and where you can’t. Fortunately, the list of functions where you can’t cut corners is short: Reliability. Since we’re talking…

Your firearm may be manufactured with plastic or wooden parts, but it certainly has metal components. And most metal is prone to oxidize or rust if left untreated. Rust on the metal of a firearm is…

In this edition of the USCCA’s Gun Vault, Concealed Carry Magazine Executive Editor Kevin Michalowski recaps the SCCY CPX-2 9mm and puts it to the ultimate test by literally dragging it through the…

Which came first, the firearm or the bullet? Historically speaking, the advent of firearms came centuries after bullets had already been in use. Our ancestors used sling bullets cast from clay, stone…