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2 weeks ago | 
gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney
Done any low-light training? Competed in a night match? I’ve done both—a bunch of times. Strike Industries now offers an LED-equipped baseplate for your Glock magazines: the EMP with LED.
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2 weeks ago | 
firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. There are times when I wonder what is in the water in the corner of Texas abutting Arkansas. Bill Wilson just keeps coming up with superb rifles, pistols, and shotguns, and one of these days my credit card is simply going to burst into flames. The latest? The EDC X9 2.0, where Wilson combat makes the EDC X9 even better.
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2 weeks ago | 
firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. The S&W Performance Center has a pistol that will knock your socks off. I traveled down to Florida back in the winter to see it when it was new, and it was, and is, da bomb. The M&P 2.0 Competitor is a metal-framed 9mm M&P with a five-inch barrel, a sweet trigger, and 17-round magazines.
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3 weeks ago | 
firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Ergonomics is a fascinating study. In the firearms world, the consensus among those who carry a compact 9mm for safety has settled on a pistol just about the size of a G19. While that pistol is a great combination of just enough and not too much, it comes with some, shall we say, quirks. Well, no more.
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1 month ago | 
shootingillustrated.com | Patrick Sweeney
You cannot imagine what the 1980s were like unless you were there. Once the SAS stormed the London embassy, everyone wanted an MP5—too bad it was a machine gun. Once “Die Hard” became the instant classic it did (and yes, it is a Christmas movie), everyone had to have the Heckler & Koch MP5 semi-automatic variant, the HK94. But the eye-watering prices demanded for them were too much for all but the most dedicated collectors.
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1 month ago | 
firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Usually when you buy a new pistol, you get the pistol, an owner’s manual, a lock and the box it came in. Sometimes you get a spare magazine. Well, Canik goes more than an extra mile, they go pretty much the whole road. The test pistol here is the Canik SFx Rival-S, an all-steel hi-cap 9mm pistol meant for, well, pretty much everything.
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1 month ago | 
firearmsnews.com | Patrick Sweeney
Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. In talking with a bunch of silencer makers, I found that the rimfire offerings were a larger part of production. In the case of some companies, the majority of what they made and sold. Why? Well, pretty simple, really. Rimfire suppressors usually cost less than other calibers, and you get a lot more quiet for your bucks. Case in point, the Banish 22.
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1 month ago | 
shootingillustrated.com | Patrick Sweeney
Those who have been blissfully asleep since the beginning of 2024 might not remember the introduction of the Echelon 4.5F. That full-size 9 mm from Springfield Armory was a big hit, but not everyone appreciates the work of carrying a big gun. So, the logical folks at Springfield Armory did the obvious, and we now have the Echelon compact—dubbed the Echelon 4.0C.
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1 month ago | 
gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney |Vols. I
Back when John Browning fine-tuned the .45 ACP (he didn’t invent it, but he did make it perfect), the premier arm of the military was the cavalry. Part of their job was stopping opposing cavalry—even if it meant stopping horses. (As horse lovers, that had to hurt.) That’s why the U.S. Army insisted on something .45 back then, when Roosevelt the First and Taft were presidents, and they would not accept the newfangled .30 and 9mm pistol cartridges that were gaining popularity in Europe.
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2 months ago | 
gundigest.com | Patrick Sweeney |Vols. I
A day at the range is fun. Well, there are some un-fun parts. You know … taping targets, picking up brass and loading magazines. Fortunately, J&M Innovative Products (aka Fastloaders.com) has a solution to that last one: Their Ram-It patent-pending gizmo makes loading an AR-15 magazine easy. The tool is bigger than a magazine, so it won’t fit into your pocket … but that also makes it easier to keep track of.
