RECOIL Presents: Concealment

Welcome to another great issue of CONCEALMENT. We’ve seen many approaches to folding guns, from simple hinges on stock systems to the memeworthy (and now defunct) folding Full Conceal pistols, to AR-15s with quick-detach barrels. We’d say that foldin

One of the reasons this column was started was to see how well someone could do with about $200 at the local gun shop. A few years ago, options weren’t too bad. But combine a worldwide pandemic, millions of new gun owners entering the market, and a h

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Turkish guns aren’t exactly known for exceptionally high quality; the sins of the past combined with modern semiauto shotgun designs that sear the mind don’t help. But if there’s one company that has helped change the reputation of the guns produced

The conventional wisdom for concealed carry guns is to choose the largest caliber that you can shoot accurately. Certainly, you should never carry anything smaller than the traditional service caliber of 9mm, right? While that might be ideal, there a

We earlier predicted that 2023 would be the year in which the 1911 became relevant once again, due to the original Browning design being updated to drag it into the 21st century. By addressing its shortcomings of limited capacity and unnecessary bulk

Everyone loves a folding subgun. If it’s not the kid in Robocop 2 with a blue DEB M21, then it’s an old SHOT video of Magpul’s Drake Clark snapping out the FMG-9. At one point, we’d have declared the heyday of these to be in ’80s action movies, but n

There are corners of the internet who are super excited about this revolver, talking like it’s the first optics-ready revolver from the factory since Sam Colt decided to put multiple chambers in a cylinder. Dude, settle down. First of all, optics on

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While 9mm ARs are nothing new, the Saint Victor carbine represents Springfield’s first entry into this crowded market segment. Arriving later to the party means everyone else has worked out the bugs and figured out what the market wants, so you can a

Humans are pretty bad when it comes to risk assessments. As a species, we tend to focus more on fantastical outliers and aggressive outside influences rather than the boring normal. But dead is still dead regardless of the reason, so let’s look at so

Bullets that claim to use hydrodynamic principles have been around for a few years now and are gaining mainstream acceptance after a lot of initial skepticism. Rather than using the traditional hollow point wounding mechanism by way of crushing tissu

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Imagine a world where a major American firearms manufacturer could name their new pistol offering the “9mm.” That feels like the equivalent of naming a new pistol “Semiautomatic” or “Magazine-Fed,” right? And yet this is exactly where things were in

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