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While killing power doesn’t necessarily equate to “fight stopping power,” Evan Marshall, the great writer on the subject and accumulator of statistics on actual gun battle results discovered some interesting facts. He and Ed Sanow published really hard to find data in their 2002 book, Stopping...

I don’t even mind the background checks, though it is an infringement. But wanting to know the make, type, serial number and address of the owner has the strong oder of tyranny. Yeah, seems like stolen vehicles, cinder blocks, Molotov cocktails, and edged weapons are favorite tools of...

Correct. Few, in 1800, had what we call a high school education today. But nearly all native born Americans who could read knew what the Bill of Rights said regarding speech, worship and the right to go about armed. Not until the country was flooded with work hungry lawyers (I passed the...

No joke. Ouch!!!! Hahaha

I don’t even mind the background checks, though they are infringements. But wanting to know the make, type, serial number of the piece and address of the owner has the strong and unpleasant odor of tyranny.

I am a retired police lieutenant and now a Constitutional lawyer who’s represented both private citizens and police officers who have issues with the government. I tell you, based on much experience, all gun laws regulate only the law-abiding. Violent criminals go about armed. Permit laws are...

Yeah! About 25% of my handguns fit that category. Hahahaha

The The weapons being used by the Mexican and Columbian cartels are largely fully automatic versions of M-16s, AK-47s and AKMs. Almost none are US gun store purchases, but military weapons bought from foreign weapons dealers. The ATF/US Attorney Operation Fast and Furious “gun walking”...

Manufacturers load to pressure limits, not to advertised velocity. Legal liability is a bigger driver of production than meeting advertised velocity. Chronograph any cartridge you bet your life on, especially from compact/subcompact handguns. And it goes without saying, function test the load...

The bottom end of the r The low end of the 125 grain REM .38 Spl Golden Saber extreme velocity spread is high enough to expand every time. I’ve tested seven different lot numbers over the last 20 years. The advertised velocity from a 4-inch revolver is 975 fps. I’ve never had one go through...

When I tested them in a Colt Agent and S&W 642, they expand reliably above 1000 fps but seldom do more than “pooch out their lips” at velocities under that. So chronograph them in your carry gun before you bet your life on them. We were getting 50-50 results on expansion with that BB 20G load.

After extensive non-scientific testing over the last 30 years I have found several general rules on big name LSWHPs. 1) The hardest to softest lead: Federal; Winchester; Remington. 2) Velocity for Remington and Winchester has to exceed 820 fps to get expansion to .40” in water after sweatshirt...

X-actly!

When a police trainer, I had the job of selecting and ordering LE Ammunition off the state bid list for our department. Bullet velocities were specified to be within certain parameters to ensure duty ammunition expanded as advertised. It became obvious that almost half the lot numbers we...