When it comes to handgun stopping power, there’s no shortage of experts, studies, theories, and anecdotes offering “definitive proof” that one cartridge is better than another. The first murder I ...

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 ...

“Handgun stopping power is simply a myth.” That line, drawn from the FBI Training Division’s long-circulating 9mm justification summary, captures the idea that reshaped modern service-pistol thinking.