Gun Reviews

Every so often a student brings a CZ P-10 F to class and half the room asks what it is. That’s a strange thing to say about a full-size 9mm that undercuts a Glock 17 on price and beats it on capacity, but the CZ P-10 F review conversation just hasn’t caught up to the […]

Is the Walther PDP Full Size’s Performance Duty Trigger worth the hype? A breakdown of specs, reliability testing, and who should actually buy one.

A clear-eyed Sig P320 review covering specs, modularity, independent trigger and reliability testing, and where the uncommanded-discharge litigation actually stands in 2026.

The Glock 17 Gen 5 has been the default full-size 9mm recommendation for years. Here’s what independent testing actually shows about reliability, trigger feel, and who should buy one in 2026.

A student showed up to a recent intro class with a Smith & Wesson CSX tucked into an appendix holster and asked me a fair question: is this thing actually good, or did she just buy a novelty because the hammer looked cool? That’s a reasonable thing to wonder about a gun that looks like

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 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

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