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Gun Review: The S&W M&P Metal Performance Center SPEC

March 10, 2025May 10, 2024 by Michael Irwin Collins

Polymer frame striker-fired handguns are affordable, lightweight and reliable in most models. But striker-fired guns don’t have to be made of affordable polymer at all times. There is room for metal frames in order to improve fit and feel and heft. Smith & Wesson’s Military & Police 9mm is one of these guns and offers … Read more

SIG SAUER Announces the Texas Ranger Limited Edition P320 Full-Size Pistol

March 6, 2025July 14, 2020 by Woody

Well this news won’t please the woke crowd at all. Yesterday Karen Attiah, the global opinions editor of the Washington Post, published an op-ed declaring that, much like the Washington Redskins, the Texas Rangers baseball club will have to change their name. Attiah proclaimed that the almost 200-year-old Rangers (the law enforcement agency, not the … Read more

Taurus Introduces New G3c Compact 9mm Pistol

March 6, 2025January 31, 2020 by Woody

Taurus has introduced the newest addition to its G-series line of semi-auto pistols, the G3c. It follows last year’s roll out of the full-size G3 9mm polymer-frame, striker-fired pistol. MSRP: $305.74. The G3c’s frame features a contoured palm swell, highly textured grip panels, memory pads for repeatable finger/hand placement, and a sculpted, extended magazine base … Read more

Gun Review: Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm

October 19, 2010 by Don Gammill Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8TtAyF6YA

The boss’s mouse gun malevolence notwithstanding, I’m still a fan of petite pistols and reserved revolvers. In fact, I was so impressed with Kel-Tec’s .380 P3AT that I just plunked down $239 of my own cabbage for one. Boy, has it been a dandy, reliably (and accurately) chomping its way through an inaugural 250 rounds of FMJs, JHPs, and assorted plastic-bagged reloads. All is good in my mouse gun paradise save one slightly-disturbing detail: those .380 bullets sure look small. For folks more bothered by this than me, the Kel-Tec Calvary has responded. Enter the 9mm Kel-Tec PF-9.

Gun Review: Kel-Tec P3AT .380

September 13, 2010 by Don Gammill Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIBclENyBs

Kel-Tec’s P3AT is one of the most popular pocket pistols pistol purveyors purvey. And no wonder. It’s small, light and cheap. And . . . there you have it. For most buyers, it’s enough; size, weight and price are the only three boxes a mouse gun needs to check. Especially one chambered in the doyenne of downsized destructive devices: 380. Of course, skin-flint gun enthusiasts want more. Safety. Reliability. Accuracy. Beauty. Ergonomics. Well, you can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you just might find . . .

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