Everything about modern vehicle design is intended to make us feel safe and isolated from the outside world. And if we look back at history, we quickly realize it’s more than just a feeling — it’s backed by mountains of data. There’s been a 95-percen

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In September of 2022, headlines were flooded with news of Eliza Fletcher, a Memphis woman who went out for a run one morning and never returned. Fletcher, a wife, mother, and teacher, was found deceased days later after being attacked while out runni

Winter is leaving us behind — and that means more access to outdoor ranges. Even if we’ve had an indoor range available, the longer days and warmer weather alone can inspire a return to the practice and training that will build the skills we need to

Since its introduction in 2018, the P365 and its variants have become the best-selling handguns in the USA. And for good reason. While other manufacturers have brought out pistols that have roughly the same footprint, and in some cases greater capaci

It’s always a good idea to have contingency kits inside your car for exigent circumstances. While it’s easy to get bogged down in the details and everyone has different needs, we’ll outline the basics as a starting point. In terms of storage, almost

SIG Sauer’s now-ubiquitous P365 is quite the success story, from its design to the company’s business decisions. For the former, not only did SIG essentially create the high-capacity microcompact category, they designed the P365 to be modular, with a

When the name “Sterling” is mentioned in the world of firearms, it summons the iconic British SMG with a side-loading magazine or the British-made Sterling Armalite AR-180. But this is not that. When it comes to sub-$200 handguns, there is another: S

Walther’s PDP — Performance Duty Pistol — took the handgun market by storm several years ago. Offering multiple frame sizes, slide lengths, modularity, a fantastic stock trigger, and built-in optics compatibility, the PDP seemed to be the pistol that

Who would you say was the gun culture figure whose name was most closely associated with the 1911-pattern pistol? Sure, yeah, John Moses Browning. OK, who would you say was the second most closely associated? We don’t think there would be a lot of de

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When someone is introduced to shooting, invariably trigger time will mostly consist of single, aimed shots. And then when someone learns just a little bit more, dipping a toe into defensive shooting, the so-called “double tap” will undoubtedly come n

SIG’s latest red dot incorporates the evolutionary changes we’ve come to expect-since open emitter red dots started appearing in general use on handguns over a decade ago. Plugging into either the Shield RMSc footprint for the micro model or the Leup

Set the controls on the Wayback Machine to Y2K, Sherman. We’re going to the old GlockTalk.com forum to see what the most hoped-for new pistol from Glock was among its most rabid fans back there in the day. While either bitrot or a blown software upgr

While the federal government continues to play out their on-again, off-again relationship with braces and short-barreled rifles, manufacturers continue to produce short AR-type guns currently classified as pistols. This politicking led to a relativel

Vehicle Close Quarter Battle (VCQB) was first developed by Will Petty of Centrifuge Training. The coursework in a VCQB class covers ballistics and gunfights in, out, and around vehicles and is targeted to law enforcement (see CONCEALMENT Issue 2). Wh

Even bigger and better than last year, this past Veterans Day Weekend saw our third CAN-CON event down in Fleming, Georgia. We started CANCON in 2022 with the intent to create an immersive range experience ripped straight from the pages here at RE-CO

Now, you could just go out and buy a set of sliding drawers. Nothing wrong with that, and there are plenty of good companies who’ll gladly take your cash for an off-the-shelf product that’ll fit the bill. When you have a vehicle with other modificati

Welcome to CONCEALMENT 37! This issue comes out in the middle of winter — but at a point where the holidays are fully over, and the days are getting longer. Spring will be here before we know it. And traditionally with spring comes airing out and tid

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It’s been some years since Slovakian Grand Power debuted their first pistol-caliber carbine in America, the Stribog SP9A1. It was a simple blowback 9mm and considered a good value, but not a great feat of engineering. Grand Power upped their game con

We don’t need to extol the value of everyday preparedness — if you’re reading this magazine, you already know its importance. But being prepared without looking prepared is a much more daunting task, and requires a conscious decision to blend into th

America in the 1890s ushered in a new era of consumerism. As a result, marketing played a key role in influencing a generation of potential firearms customers. While there were many advertisements directed toward women for soap, detergent, and other

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Henry Repeating Arms has been making lever-action rifles since 1996, so one would assume their first revolver would be a single-action model to complement the historicity of the lever action, along with possible use in Cowboy Action Shooting. So it t

The latest from Lionheart is a new gun but one with a lot of history. In the early 1980s, South Korea’s Daewoo first began designing a handgun named the DP51. When it was adopted by the Korean military in 1989, it was dubbed the K5. The K5 saw limite

The very first major production 9mm AR, the Colt Model 635, was born right alongside the first millennials back in 1982. Commonly referred to as the Colt SMG, it and variants thereof were developed as an American alternative to compete with the glut

There’s a recurring trope in everything from science-fiction flicks to fairy tales about the hero who’s shrunk to a tiny figure and then returned to normal size later in the story. It turns out that this story arc can apply as much to factual pistols

For most of us, it’s a staple of action movies and an icon of first-person shooter video games that’s rarely seen in the American wild. For others, it’s a gun they love to hate — or perhaps a gun they hate to love. The somewhat obscure and oft-misund