By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com August 27, 2015 Last updated on 8/27/15. Back in January (2015), right before SHOT Show 2015, DefenseReview (DR) published a piece on the Ashbury Precision Ordnance (APO) Custom Shop (APOCS), which is building some very cool custom combat/tactical pistols with the Trijicon RMR (Ruggedized Miniature Reflex) LED mini red dot sight combat optic …

By Jeff Gurwitch August 12, 2015 Last updated on 8/13/15. Wilson Combat, long known for their highly accurate and reliable custom M1911’s, is now offering custom work and accessories for Beretta 92G’s and 96’s. Like many, this is the last thing I expected from a company that prides itself on single-action semi-autos in .45 ACP. So, upon learning that I …

By Mike Pannone May 1, 2015 I train and compete with CZ pistols of all types, from my Tactical Sports in .40S&W and Shadow 9mm for USPSA, to my P09, P07 and CZ75 PCR in pistol classes that I teach for my company CTT-Solutions LLC. I have had extraordinary performance out of all of my CZ guns, but realized I …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 28, 2015 Last updated on 4/29/15. Speaking of polymer-frame, striker-fired combat/tactical 9mm (9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO) pistols, DefenseReview (DR) was curious to know how the Walther PPQ M1 Classic and Heckler & Koch HK VP9 high-capacity polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols stack up against each other, so we asked our friend Dave Pavlick of …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 26,2015 Back in March, DefenseReview (DR) covered the release of the new Glock 43 single-stack, slim-line 9mm pistol, as well as our thoughts on it. Well, hickok45 of YouTube video fame just recently got his hands on three of them, and published a video on his fun little range session with …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Patriot Ordnance Factory (POF-USA) April 14, 2015 Last updated on 4/14/15. Patriot Ordnance Factory USA (POF-USA) just introduced their new PSG 9mm tactical AR (AR-15)-type semi-auto-only pistol/select-fire machine pistol/SMG (submachine gun) at the 2015 NRA Show (NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits) in Nashville, Tennessee. Well, POF-USA president/CEO Frank DeSomma initially sent …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 8, 2015 Last updated on 4/13/15. The Beretta APX wasn’t the only Beretta pistol DefenseReview (DR) got to handle at Beretta Tactical Summit 2015. We actually got to shoot the new Beretta M9A3 high-capacity DA/SA semi-auto 9mm (9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO) pistol during a combat/tactical pistol shooting class with (awesome) tactical/technical shooting …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 7, 2015 Last updated on 4/13/15. DefenseReview (DR) got to view and handle the new Beretta M9A3 high-capacity combat/tactical 9mm (9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO) pistol at SHOT Show 2015, and we came away pretty impressed with it. It sports a smaller, straight-backed grip, a threaded barrel for mounting a muzzle can (silencer/sound …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com April 5, 2015 Last updated on 4/11/15. Back in late February, Rob Curtis of Military.com GearScout wrote a detailed heads-up article on the Beretta APX polymer-frame, striker-fired semi-auto 9mm (9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO)/.40 S&W pistol right after it was introduced at International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX) 2015. The piece covered all the …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Glock, Inc. March 20,2015 Glock just released information on their new single-stack “slim-line” 9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO sub-compact pistol, called the Glock 43 (G43)–and they’ve got a nice new website specifically for it. FINALLY. This is BIG news, for which DefenseReview (DR) has been waiting a LONG time, long before the Glock …