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Winchester’s USA Ready Defense ammunition looks to be a reliable and effective option for use in self-defense handguns.

You do know that shorter barrels mean slower velocities, right?

Despite its advanced age, the quintessential revolver round has a lot going for it.

Bringing new calibers and cartridges to market takes a lot of work, with hit-or-miss success.

It could be argued that the 6 mm PPC, which was created in the mid-1970s by Dr. Louis Palmisano and Ferris Pindell, began the evolution of the precision-rifle cartridge. The 6 mm PPC was a .220 Russian cartridge case necked up to 6 mm.

There are a lot of factors that go into handloading your own ammunition.

With law-enforcement agencies moving away from the .40 S&W and going back to the 9 mm, the .40’s future is cloudy. For those who don’t follow cartridge history closely, the .40 S&W is really nothing more than a 10 mm light load wearing a different dress.

Is ammunition the most common reason for stoppages? If you’ve received quality defensive-firearm training, you’ve learned to deal with stoppages through immediate action.

The modern carbine cartridge—the .223 Rem.—has been with us since the early 1960s. Since then, we’ve seen its case altered to make other cartridges, and we’ve also seen new carbine-compatible introductions based on other cartridge cases.