I first examined the KRISS Vector submachinegun at IWA in 2011. I did not understand why it needed to exist. I spent an evening at a Cuban cigar lounge in Nuremberg with some executives and tech guys from the company explaining my opinion to them. There was a former Swiss police officer who worked on the Sphinx pistol program (the companies are related) in attendance; he nodded as I spoke with a barely perceptible smile on his face. Essentially, I didn't see why something as large and heavy as the… Read More
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Sporting Purposes: How HK Really Does Not Suck Or Hate You
While searching an old hard drive for an essay I wrote in college, I came across some unrelated documents which I had saved at approximately the same time: ATF position papers/reports on the importation of semiautomatic military-style rifles. I briefly skimmed these documents, and found several interesting points that I would like to raise. First, a brief refresher course on some recent history, with points illustrated by photographs of cute animals. Jerry Tsai, former editor of Recoil magazine, made some comments about how HK MP7s served no sporting purposes, and… Read More
Two Reasons Why Recoil Magazine Actually Sucks
Okay, seemingly everyone on the interwebs is talking about how the editor of Recoil Magazine said that civilians shouldn't own stuff like the HK MP7; his "retraction" was even worse, a rambling attempt to weasel out of the statement and a weak connection between supporting the troops and not wanting civilians to get their hands on MP7s. That's great and all, but it misses the real point. Recoil (sorry, RECOIL) sucked as a magazine long before this MP7 fiasco. I commented on this a while back, but here's why in… Read More
Kahr CW9/CW40/CW45 Recoil Comparison
In this video, I shoot three different Kahr handguns back to back. All are loaded with standard pressure ammunition, in the heaviest (standard) bullet weights available for the caliber - 230s in the .45, 180s in the .40, and 147s in the 9mm. Although the CW40 actually "felt" more controllable than the CW45, you can see in the video that the CW40 had more muzzle rise. The CW9 was much easier to control than both of the larger handguns.