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Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Previously Gunsite Gossip
Vol. 2, No. 3 1 March 1994 (continued)

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I never suggest any sort of pistol for a householder who is not prepared to take up the study of the pistol. Pistolcraft is a somewhat advanced art, not to be acquired in one easy lesson. See what has happened when the US law enforcement establishment made the great shift from revolver to auto-pistol! I suppose that I was...

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Previously Gunsite Gossip
Vol. 2, No. 3 1 March 1994 (continued)

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Did you notice the attempt by the media to characterize Tonya Harding as low-brow because she hunts deer? I suppose there are plenty of people in the megalopolis who truly consider deer hunting to be a low-brow pastime. This is yet another testimony to the fact that many of our people - especially our city slickers - have...

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Previously Gunsite Gossip
Vol. 2, No. 3 1 March 1994

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Ides of March
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I am often criticized for not "sticking to my guns" and veering off into politics, sociology and history. That criticism may be valid, but the more I see of it the more I become convinced that history and conflict are synonymous. This seems to be inherent...

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Previously Gunsite Gossip
Vol. 2, No. 2 31 January 1994 (continued)

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Mark Moritz recently introduced me to "the pistol that shoots everything." It is a Smith-frame revolver that accepts any known cartridge in the 9mm persuasion, from the 380 to the 357. It accomplishes this by means of a trick cylinder and ejector system that accommodates to any sort of rim. Mark tells me that this is...

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Previously Gunsite Gossip
Vol. 2, No. 2 31 January 1994 (continued)

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Springfield Arms (now referred to as Springfield Inc.) is also making 1911 clones as fast as they may be produced, and Para-Ordnance is going ahead with their pioneer productions of the double column 45.

It has never been clear to me why increased magazine capacity in a defensive pistol is particularly...