What the measured world of chronographs and gel blocks is telling us, and who's telling it well.
FN 5.7x28mm blue tip, black tip, SS192, Hornady Critical Defense and an R&R subsonic go into clear gel on a Phantom camera, measured against 9mm Gold Dot.
Read the pieceReplacing 5.56 NATO: Boondock Ballistician sketches two paths, a 6mm-family rifle for range or a high-pressure smaller cartridge for weight, and says neither is close.
Read the pieceFN 5.7x28 and the Five-seven 'cop killer' fight: Administrative Results revisits the 2005 ban push and fires PS90 and pistol loads into a Level IIIA vest.
XSPEED IIIA+ body armor plate test: Lilly Tactical shoots the 820-gram Taiwanese handgun plate with 9mm and 5.7x28 rounds, and none penetrate on camera.
L7A1 high-pressure 9mm, the British submachine gun load ATF flagged in 1996, gained velocity after cold conditioning in a chronograph test rather than losing it.
Ruger Mini-14 accuracy testing on a suppressed, optic-mounted build measured roughly 3 to 3.5 MOA with match ammunition, and traced a suppressed cycling fault to gas pressure.
5.7x28 belongs in the pistol column, two Classic Firearms hosts argue in a studio segment covering the NATO trials, the velocity-versus-energy math, and who is chambering it now.
Boondock Ballistician's rebuttal to the FBI's 64- and 75-grain SBR guidance is right about the grading criteria and wrong about the energy math, and the correction makes the case stronger.
Colion Noir's new video builds on a viral moose encounter to argue that warning shots do not deter animals and that volume of fire beats perfect shot placement.
Budget bolt-action rifles from Ruger, Savage, Howa, Mossberg, Winchester and Weatherby averaged 1.34 MOA across 3,000 rounds of .308 with no malfunctions.
Brass Facts sorts the AR-pattern support weapon field into four tiers and reports the cyclic round counts at which each one cooked off.
Forced reset triggers get a new use-case argument from Colion Noir, who says a charging bear is a volume-of-fire problem rather than a shot-placement one.
