Taurus offers budget friendly revolvers, shown here with the ammo they eat. (Photo: Kristin Alberts) New cartridges come and go, but several, like the .357 Magnum, have withstood the test of time as a beloved, controllable, and capable revolver round. While higher-end guns like Smith & Wesson, Dan Wesson, or Ruger may be out of
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The VP9 retains high rank in my range gun rotation after three years. (Photo: Team HB) Back in June 2015, I did a write-up on my then-new Heckler & Koch VP9. Since then, that pistol’s logged several thousand rounds. A handful of friends and students have purchased their own VP9s and have spent many training
At SHOT Show 2017, an impending product release caught my eye—the SAR 9, a striker-fired 9mm pistol from Turkish aerospace products producer Sarsılmaz. I was fortunate to get my hands on one of the first 50 copies in the US via Illinois office of UTAS Defense, a Turkish company. The SAR9 is a polymer frame
On Veterans Day, Patriot Ordnance Factory invited friends and family to the grand opening of their new 27,000 square foot factory in Phoenix. Located at at 1492 Victory Lane, company president Frank DeSomma chuckled at the significance of the address number. “Fourteen ninety-two. Isn’t that when Columbus sailed the ocean blue?” he asked. DeSomma was