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Heckler & Koch's USP Tactical: The Wiley Clapp Review

The USP Tactical is a big, raw-boned brute of a sidearm. It sits big in your hand and takes a fat magazine of those chunky cartridges that Americans have been using for almost a century. An accurate pistol with subtly effective lockwork, this H&K is a pistol that I can recommend to you.

Classic Guns: Webley Mk V Revolver

Webley provided revolvers for the British military for close to 30 years. Today, the Webley Mk V that hasn’t been rechambered for .45 ACP is the most collectible.

SIG Sauer Announces Commercial Variant of M18 Pistol

SIG Sauer, Inc. has introduced the P320-M18, the commercial variant of the U.S. Military Modular Handgun System (MHS) M18.

SIG Sauer Delivers 100,000th M17 / M18 Handgun to U.S. Military

SIG Sauer has delivered the 100,000th M17 and M18 for the Modular Handgun System program to the U.S. military, ahead of schedule, and surpassing the performance standards and requirements since the official contract award in January 2017.

Fear & Loading: Marines Retiring More Than Just M9s

According to the Navy’s 2019 and 2020 budget-estimate report, some Glocks and Colts are also scheduled for replacement.

Archives: The M1911A1 and The M9

From the 1985 American Rifleman, shortly after the adoption of the M9 as the new U.S. Army's sidearm, then-Editor-in-Chief Pete Dickey compares it to the M1911.

By the Decade: Wiley Clapp’s Favorite Handgun—The 1960s

Wiley Clapp's Marine Corps service influenced his choice for his favorite pistol of the 1960s.

Upgrades for the Beretta 92: A Different Gun?

There are now very solid options that can turn that old 92 in the back of the safe into an even better shooter with very little effort.

The Doughboy’s M1911 Pistol In World War I

By 1918, in the hands of the Doughboys of the American Expeditionary Force, the Kaiser’s men would experience the hammering power of the big .45 ACP automatic pistol and its 230-gr. slugs.

The Keefe Report: XM17—As Big a Deal as the M9?

Will the coattails of the army pistol contract have as much influence in the market as the M9 did for Beretta back in the 1980s?

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