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You are correct. But... With a 6" by 6" by 16" gel block if you entered the block at the very top edge at a perfect 20.556 degree angle, it's still only 17.08" to the opposite edge. If you entered at the top right corner and exited at the bottom left corner the distance is still only 18.1"...

I shot my first tactical rifle match, mostly because I had time to shoot it on the same weekend as a service rifle match at the same location. I heard about it last minute, bought a Inland M1 carbine the day before ($125), along with 3 new in the wrap 30 round GI magazines ($15 each) and the...

You're not wrong about the SMG reference. I'm a better than average shot and can consistently hit a bottle target at 100 yards offhand at a timed fire pace with a handgun. But, I am a lot more accurate and a lot faster with any of these 9mm firearms. And when the ranges get longer .357...

Try to get the anti 2A crowd to understand that none of the "assault rifles" or even pistols designed around semi auto rifles as light enough or compact enough to conceal and carry all day for criminal purposes. But...for home defense where it's not having to be carried all day, the size and...

Agreed. It's not rocket science.

That's the crux of the problem for Sig. It's really bad when your firearm design requires a whole new term because neither "Accidental Discharge" or "Negligent Discharge" accurately covers what's happening. Glock has been successful in defending instances where people have shot themselves...

As a civilian / commercial term it goes back to at least 2004 and the marketing of the ACS HEZI SM-1. As a military term it goes back a lot farther and the M-1 carbine was functionally a "PDW" given how it was issued and employed. The Israelis required their personnel to carry a personal...

That letter smells of desperation. When a company has to resort to words and phrases like "inaccurate", "reactionary", "misinformation", and "provide the truth" - and then calls on customers to rat out private ranges whose owners have taken the prudent move to ban the Sig P320, so that the...

They have to given that some individual ranges are banning the P320. USPSA can't set it up to where a browned off competitor with a P320 gets upset at the range for a ban, claiming it's "against the USPSA rules".

Lucky Gunner at least does five round samples and sometimes does short and long barrels as well. A lot of the videos on YouTube use a single round, and near the margins of the expansion envelope that doesn't tell you much. When you get near the minimum velocity needed for expansion, a hollow...

That's undedrstood. Fouling had everything to do with keeping the COAL within in a certain limit when Colt designed the round for the Colt SAA in the black powder era. COAL and point shape also still have a lot to do with feeding in lever action and slide action rifles. Winchester 1892s...

Correct. The .45 Colt, in the black powder era, was never chambered in any lever action. That only happened after the switch to smokeless powder, and the elimination of black powder fouling related extraction issues with the parallel wall .45 Colt case (right).

The .45 Colt was originally designed as a black powder cartridge. Colt wanted to stuff as much powder into it as possible, thus the .45 caliber and the parallel wall case. It was basically the .44 Mag of it's day. If you look at contemporary rounds like the .44-40, .38-40 and .32-20, that...

Spot on. States that require training almost always include in the training a segment on the laws pertaining to the use of deadly force in that particular state. Its cheap insurance to take the class. Too many retired for former LEOs fail to grasp that they are no longer LEOs and the old...

The testing published on the internet and on YouTube can help form some basic impressions, but it doesn't always account for or point out some of the important variables. You need to know what your load will do in your gun. I started doing my own ballistics gel testing when Clear Ballistics...

Yes, the original .45 Colt was designed for the Colt Single Action Army (1873) and had to fit the cylinder length with some room for fouling on the forcing cone.

There are a couple ways to look at this. 1) Objectively and legitimately, if it proves to be the case that this single incident did in fact prove to be an intentional act with purposeful, reckless, knowing, or just negligent intent, it does absolutely nothing to prove all the other recorded...

That hasn't been my experience. I've seen juries massively under compensate legitimate victims. There are always sensationalised exceptions, but those don't become the average or the norm.

Agreed. Without out implying any thing p word related, NH is a conservative state in the true, traditional anti-regulatory, stay out of people's business sense of the word. While it has voted a particular way in the last six presidential elections, its always been by very narrow margins...

I think there is also some confusion about standard of evidence: There is "preponderance of the evidence" , normally used in simple civil cases This means the jury must be persuaded by the evidence that the claim [or affirmative defense] is more probably true than not true. This is the...