The modern handgun caliber argument was not settled by louder opinions, but by controlled failure analysis. For years, “stopping power” worked as a convenient shorthand for a messy problem. It implied ...

The most common definition of “caliber,” as it pertains to guns, is about as straightforward as you could want it to be: Caliber simply mean the diameter of the hole in a rifle or pistol barrel. Yet ...

An operating room surgeon or medical examiner cannot reliably tell the difference between wounds from common service handgun calibers in the .35 to .45 range. That plain reality did more to weaken ...

Once bullets impact game, all bets are off. The original caliber can instantly change into a variety of widths, lengths, shapes, fragments and tissue tearing ability. Spomer Photos Recently, I read an ...