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While not nearly as popular as semi-automatic pistols, revolvers have several key advantages over more modern handgun designs — and these advantages have ensured the wheel gun’s continued relevance.

LAGUNA NIGUEL – The last thing I thought I’d ever do is learn to shoot a gun. We were an outdoors family and guns were a part of that lifestyle – target shooting, birds, and for my dad, bigger game.

One of the most persistent handgun calibers of the past one hundred years, the .357 Magnum (9x33mmR) cartridge was for decades the most powerful commercially available round. Invented in 1934, the ...