Firearms

Mission-Ready Twice Over: Inside the ExoM Up-Armoured Exoskeleton

At SOF Week 2025, amidst the hum of innovation and the clatter of next-gen gear demos, one system stood out for its quiet, titanium-backed revolution: the ExoM Up-Armoured Exoskeleton from Mehler Systems. Co-developed with Mawashi Science & Technology and France’s elite GIGN unit, the ExoM isn’t just a concept—it’s a mission-proven solution that’s reshaping how […]

Olight Warrior X4 Review: The Best Flashlight My Dad Never Had

Dad spent years chasing the perfect beam, and the Olight Warrior X4 finally delivers with instant 2,600 lumens, hours of sustained output, true water resistance, clean rifle mount options, and the kind of rugged reliability you stop thinking about because it simply works.

My First Published Book! – “Five Decades of a Fabulous Firearm: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Beretta 92 Pistol Series”

After five decades of faithful service and countless rounds downrange, the Beretta 92 still proves that true legends don’t fade—they just keep firing.

The Winchester .30-30 Lever Action: America’s Classic Deer Rifle with a Legacy That Won’t Die

Introduction: A Gun That Helped Settle the Dust and the Score Before there were red dots, polymer frames, or tacticool rail systems, there was the click-clack of a lever-action rifle, and in the American wild, that sound usually meant business. Enter the Winchester .30-30, the rifle your granddad probably used to drop whitetails and bad […]

The M24: America’s Headhunter

Every rifle makes a snap when fired, but some rifles make history with the same action. The M24 does both, but mostly the latter. In a world gone mad with high-rate-of-fire platforms and tactical gear that looks better on Instagram than it performs in the field, the M24 bolt-action rifle remains a stoic monument to […]

Full-Auto Fun — Shooting the full-Auto vz. 61 Škorpion

The Škorpion freakin’ ROCKS (and rolls)!!!Those of y’all dear readers who remember 5 May 2025 article titled “Firing the Full-Auto Steyr AUG” will recall that I kvetched about that rifle having “that frickin’ progressive trigger made the Steyr *THE* most difficult of the bunch to keep my shots on target, even at a measly 7 […]

MAC-10: The Wild History of America’s Most Iconic (and Overrated) Submachine Gun

Friday is for fun, and what more fun could we have than discussing one of the most fun firearms in modern pop-culture. So when it comes to firearms with an attitude problem, few can hold a candle to the MAC-10. It’s loud, boxy, unapologetically ugly, and about as subtle as a trenchcoat full of bears. […]

The BAR: Browning’s Battlefield Sledgehammer

Let’s discuss the Browning Automatic Rifle, the mighty BAR. The gun that showed up to war, kicked the damn door in, lit a cigar, and told the rest of the squad, “Follow me, boys, I’ll lead you to Berlin.” Invented by the patron saint of American firearms, John Moses Browning, the BAR (specifically the M1918) […]

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

First Shot Let me tell you, few things in life hit harder than a .45 ACP from a slab-sided chunk of American steel. And while this one technically hails from Turkey, the Tisas 1911A1 is like that smiling immigrant in basic training who shows up, shakes your hand firm, and immediately volunteers for airborne school. […]

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 Taffin. “Duke” passed back on June 9, 2024 following a brief illness related due to complications from heart disease. (I haven’t been able to ascertain Mike’s […]