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War of Words: In the Ultra-Competitive Defense Tech Industry, Storytelling is a Secret Weapon

Firearms

The BAR: Browning’s Battlefield Sledgehammer

Body Armor

West Coast Armor IIIA Plates Review: Lightweight, American-Made Protection

Firearms

Tisas 1911A1 U.S. Army Review: Best Budget .45 ACP WW2 1911 Clone?

Firearms

Honoring John Taffin and Mike “Duke” Venturino with Some Big-Bore Magnum Revolver Blastin’

In the past year, the gun writer community has been hit by a double-whammy of the untimely passings of two all-time great firearms scribes, Mike “Duke” Venturino and John Taffi [Read more...]

Air Guns

Pyramyd AIR’s Springfield Hellcat Pro CO2 BB Pistol Is the Ultimate Dry-Fire Trainer

The Springfield Hellcat Pro CO2 BB pistol lets you train like a Tier 1 operator on a thrift store budget, all without waking the neighbors or your ammo fund from its peaceful slumb [Read more...]

Firearms

Helwan Brigadier 9mm Range Report

Besides being my all-time personal sentimental favorite pistol, the Beretta 92FS, aka M9, is a truly iconic combat handgun. Believe it or not, the Beretta 92/M9 pistol series is ce [Read more...]

EDC

Juggernaut Tactical Frame Review: The Best Upgrade for Your 365

There’s a fine line between “pocket pistol” and “pocket rocket,” and Juggernaut Tactical just bulldozed across it with their all-metal grip module for the Sig P365. If th [Read more...]

Firearms

Vakarian Plate Carrier Review: Elite Comfort and Modularity for Under $300

Built Like a Spartan, Worn Like a Ghost  There’s a scene in Halo: Reach, right before everything goes completely sideways, where Noble Team gets ready to make their last stand. [Read more...]

Military

Black Widow and the Brain: Palladyne and Red Cat Prove the Future Is Autonomous

Let’s get something straight right out of the gate—there’s hype, and then there’s hardware and software doing the damn thing. Tactical drone systems come and go, but earlie [Read more...]

Firearms

Too Tough to Die: The M14

Some rifles fade into obscurity. Others refuse to go quietly. Then there’s the M14…the Cold War warhorse that refused retirement, kept punching past its prime, and earned a [Read more...]

Concealed Carry

Craft Holsters Makarov Tuckable IWB Holster Report

As my dear readers both on Patreon and here on The Loadout Room are aware, I’m a longtime fanboys of the 9x18mm Makarov pistol. Granted, the Mak isn’t quite the all-time sentim [Read more...]

EDC

CIVIVI RS71 Review : Big Blade Energy

Some knives are tools. Others are toys, the samurai sword you show off to Jeff from down the street. The CIVIVI RS71? It’s both, with the attitude of a dive knife, the action [Read more...]

Firearms

CLASSIC COLD WAR PISTOL SHOWDOWN: Beretta vs. Makarov

“The WeekenD’orr”  Beretta vs. Makarov: Who’s The Big Winner? Okay, mea culpa: as my shooting buddies know, I’m a big-time Beretta fanboy. The 9mm Be [Read more...]

Firearms

Tommy Gun Madness: The Thompson Submachine Gun

How one brutally effective American icon bridged Prohibition and World War – and became one of the loudest symbols of American firepower. Before Delta carried suppressed MP5& [Read more...]

Firearms

Firing the Full-Auto Steyr AUG

Sprayin’ and prayin’ like Karl from Die Hard, I finally got to rock the Steyr AUG in full-auto—and lemme tell ya, that progressive trigger ain’t for the faint of finger. [Read more...]

Firearms

M60 Pig: America’s Jungle-Eating, Belt Fed Freedom Machine

It weighed over 20 pounds, jammed when it felt like it, and chewed through belts of 7.62 NATO like a chainsaw on meth…but for the American warfighter in Vietnam, the M60 was [Read more...]

Expert Analysis

My First Single-Action Revolver Purchase: Heritage Rough Rider .22 LR/.22 WMR Range Report

As those of you dear readers who also read my stuff on The National Interest may recall, back on 2 January 2025, my review of the Ruger Wrangler .22 LR single-action (SA) revolv [Read more...]

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