Let me tell you straight up: if you’re venturing into bear country thinking a handgun is your ultimate safety net, you’re kidding yourself. As a guy who spends plenty of time in the ...

Readers explain why semi-autos fail against aggressive bears.

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One of the most important roles a handgun can play is in home defense. Compact and easy to secure, handguns are ideal weapons for defending one’s own home. Caliber aside, one of the major questions ...

In fact, I pressed Giddings on the revolver-vs.-semi-auto argument, and he agrees: “[The] official answer is that if you’re purely looking at CCW as a numbers game, a medium-frame, heavy, low-capacity ...