A student asked me last week whether the Supreme Court AR-15 case meant Florida’s own rules on semi-automatic rifles were about to change. They aren’t, not yet, and not directly. Florida doesn’t ban the AR-15 platform the way Illinois and Connecticut do. But the case the justices agreed to hear on June 30, 2026 is […]

A student asked me last week whether the Supreme Court AR-15 case meant Florida’s own rules on semi-automatic rifles were about to change. They aren’t, not yet, and not directly. Florida doesn’t ban the AR-15 platform the way Illinois and Connecticut do. But the case the justices agreed to hear on June 30, 2026 is

A student in one of my recent classes set a Springfield Echelon 4.0C on the bench and asked me the same question I get every time a new compact 9mm shows up: is this actually different, or is it just another gun in a crowded market? That’s exactly why I’m writing this Springfield Echelon 4.0C

The Taurus GX4 undercuts the P365 and Shield Plus on price. Here’s what independent testing and manufacturer specs actually say about reliability, trigger feel, and value.

A student showed up to her first range session last month with a brand-new Glock still in the factory box, a hundred rounds of ball ammo, and no idea she needed hearing protection rated for indoor use. She’d watched a few YouTube videos and figured that covered it. It didn’t, and by the time we

A student in one of my classes last year asked a question I still think about: “Why do I have to choose between a gun I can hide and a gun that holds enough ammo?” She’d been carrying a single-stack micro-compact and felt undergunned. That’s the exact gap the Sig Sauer P365-XMACRO was built to

The first question almost every new student asks me before we ever talk about grip or stance is what to bring to the gun range for their first training session. I had one guy show up to a Wellington indoor range last spring in flip-flops and a tank top, cash in hand, gun still in

A student in one of my classes texted me a headline last week: “80% lowers are legal again.” He wanted to know if he could finally finish that receiver blank sitting in his closet without worrying about a federal case. That’s the wrong question, and it’s the question a lot of people are asking right

Every few weeks a student sets a Glock 48 and a Glock 43X on my range table side by side and asks me which one they should buy. Half the time they’ve already read three online comparisons and gotten three different answers, because most of those articles bury the one number that actually matters under

A student showed up to a recent class with a pistol I hadn’t handled before: a Canik Mete MC9, bought because it was three hundred dollars cheaper than the Springfield Hellcat he’d been eyeing. He wanted to know if he’d made a mistake. That question is worth answering in public, because most Canik Mete MC9