Guest Writer: Kenzie Fitzpatrick There’s a brutal difference between fact and fiction. The things we see in the entertainment industry may look cool on screen but have no basis in reality. For example, in Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Richard Hannay’s (Robert Donat) life is saved when a hymnal in his pocket stops an assassin’s bullet. […]
Stopping power, or “knockdown power,” is a projectile’s ability to incapacitate a target, whether animal or human. While almost everyone’s heard the term, understanding exactly what it means can be tough. All the confusion surrounding stopping power is mainly due to Hollywood’s unrealistic depictions of what happens when someone gets shot. In TV and movies, […]
Author: Jacob Long “FREEDOM!” was the blue-faced battle cry of the Sig P320 creators led by designer Adrian Thomele. Or at least, that’s how I like to envision them, painted up like extras in Braveheart sitting around a boardroom table. Their cry was not necessarily a call to freedom from tyranny, but rather freedom of […]
Guest Writer: Kenzie Fitzpatrick We never get tired of watching movies, but we often watch scenes play out that aren’t realistic. Their approach is believable, but the way they go about solving problems defies logic, engineering, and sometimes physics. Take deadbolt locks as an example. When a character shoots a deadbolt lock, it disintegrates and […]
When it comes to self-defense rounds, two of the most prominent options in the industry are Federal HST VS Speer Gold Dot. Both manufacturers have been around for decades. In fact, CCI/Speer was founded in the 1940s, and Federal dates all the way back to 1916. During that time, both manufacturers became incredibly skilled at […]
